Ontario Place Toronto ¡ Canada
This project proposes a film and photography museum specializing on the theme of landscape, providing exhibition spaces, a theatre, archives and private screening spaces. Located within the masterplanned Ontario Place site, the building appears as a solid mass emerging from the hillside, and projects out towards the water, incorporating the pre-existing infrastructual grid. The project focuses on the tension and dialogue between the constructed building and the changing topography and nature of the adjacent landscapes. The building consists of a series of cores that combine the more specific programs as well as vertical circulation, and open flexible space surrounding those cores that serves as exhibition space, public amenity space and horizontal circulation. The archives
and associated atrium constitute the central space. The archives exists as a core traversing the height of the building, and orients the visitor. The void space of the atrium serves to reveal the archives, and highlight its increasing permeability and openness, as the it shifts from an enclosed and hidden archive for physical material on the first two floors, to visible but inacessible digital archive space on the third floor, to an entirely accessible digital archive space on the top floor. Furthermore, through carefully placed openings, the landscape is revealed, suddenly confronting the disoriented visitor with the landscape, and allows circulation to spill out on to the landscape. The framed views towards the exterior recreate the experience of watching a film sequence as the visitor moves through the building.
2B Design Studio ¡ Lola Sheppard Academic Work ¡ Spring 2017 KYRA AHIER
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