Julien Todd Architecture Portfolio
Selected works 2022-2024
Rowefarms
Butchery
ARC100
Instructor: Quan Thai Fall 2022
Rowefarms Butchery is a Butchershop and market located in the Danforth Neighborhood in the East end of Toronto. The Butchery sells a variety of meats as well as vegetables and dried goods. In an attempt to bring awareness to the inner workings of the meat industry I chose to represent the Butchery as an industrial process, carved within a diagramatic cow.
Rowefarms Butchery 2
Kensington Food Market
JAV101
Instructor: Batoul Faour
Winter 2023
The Kensington food market serves as an intervention in the popular Kensington Market neighbourhood to address food insecurity. The market serves as both a food bank and community kitchen with individual stalls which can be leased to small business owners to serve food. The profits of which can be used to subsidize a food bank which can be opened on occasioned and served through the food counters. The building also encompasses a plaza which can be the location of pop up markets and is a place for the community to gather as well as contain the long line ups of food banks which is consistent with others within the city.
Front Section
Front Elevation
Rhythm: Student Wellness Center
ARC201
Instructor: Brian Boigon Fall 2024
This project addresses a shortage of counselling and student centred spaces on the University Campus. Dedicated as a student wellness centre the building provides varied spaces for students to engage with each other or in independent study. Dedicated space is provided for private counselling offices. Rhythm is used throughout the building to dedicate space programatically. Slower spaces for isolated quiet study and faster rhythm for busy areas of collaboration. The building uses the techniques of Kandinsky in his painting “Jean Rouge Bleu” where he visually represents rhythm through colour and form. I chose to reflect this idea in the form of my spaces, jagged edges, walls, and curved floors that dictate the rhythmic experience of those spaces.
Isometric view
South Section Model North East View Rhythm: Student Wellness
Greektown
ARC200
Instructor: Simon Rabyniuk
Summer 2023
The Danforth, also known as Greektown in the eastern end of Toronto is a vibrant community full of Restaurants, bars and boutiques. The intersection of Pape ave and Danforth ave is an area of conflict as the construction of the new Ontario Line intersection with the existing line 2 is bringing a new condo development tower to the low rise neighbourhood. Embracing the existing typology of Greektown, I envisioned a restructure of the podium for the proposed condo development facade. Creating a climate controlled buffer zone encouraging street engagement. Live work units also encourage a lively atmosphere and help to maintain the local economy.
Pape and Danforth Density: 5411/km2
Sheppard and Yonge Density: 4916/km
Bloor and Yonge Density: 7850/km
Bloor and St. George Density: 9685/km
Live - work unit access diagram
Live - work unit access diagram
PapeAve
DanforthAve
The Blob
ARC280
Instructor: Brady Peters
Winter 2024
The Blob was formed as a computational design process. Using the initial shape of a sketch model, the structure was rationalized using rhino and grasshopper software. The shape was divided into an enclosed structure consisting of 7 floors connected by a spiral staircase and a panelized exterior. Said panels are supported by a rib structure, intersecting with support rings.
Exploded Axonometric
Sketch Model
