Devin Tepleski - MLA 2019 - Abridged Portfolio

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ART GAL L ERY OF N O VA SCO T IA WINNING INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION ENTRY I worked on exterior renders for the award-winning submission by KPMB Architects with Omar Gandhi Architect, Jordan Bennett Studio, Elder Lorraine Whitman (NWAC), Public Work and Transsolar. Detail design is set to begin in 2021.

Mawiomi – a gathering place and gathering of people. This is where feasting, pow wows, ceremonies and visiting happens. No other art space exists that began from Mi’kmaw ways of knowing; a space that breaks away from a square box. Our starting point is rooted within Mi’kmaw knowledge and culture which is universal wisdom and knowledge regarding all living beings in harmony with one another on Mother Earth here on Turtle Island. Our design responds to the call for ‘New Ways of Thinking’: a catalyst for changing how we build sustainable, inclusive spaces for future generations.

Team: Marc Ryan, Ben Matthews, Emmeily Zhang, Devin Tepleski, Luke Van Tol

Top: Sketch perpective showing western bridge landing.

Bottom: Triptych of aerial perspectives showing landing construction phasing.

U NI V ERS I T Y PAR K REIMAGINING TORONTO’S GRAND BOULEVARD For my first assignment at landscape architecture office, PUBLIC WORK, I created a massive 3D model of a nearly 4.5 sq km portion of the downtown core, including all trees, buildings and key underground infrastructure.

Custom algorithms were developed for Grasshopper / Rhino including one to import GIS data and spawn photorealistic trees matching not only the listed species, but certain formal characteristics contained within GIS attribute tables. This virtual 3D tree inventory allowed a user to click on any of the nearly 9000 trees in the scene and pull up arborist information.

The model became the basis for almost all drawings and photorealistic animations to date, many which were featured in Canadian national newspaper, the Globe and Mail.

The proposal connects Toronto’s iconic museums, the University Toronto grounds and Queen’s Park to the waterfront by converting 9 acres of under-utilized, city owned asphalt along the eastern side of University Ave. into a connective park.

Team: Adam Nicklin, Ben Matthews, Devin Tepleski, Tom Badger, Luke Van Tol

Left: Aerial perspective looking south towards the water Above: Plan

Top Left: Aerial perspective looking south towards Osgoode Hall Bottom Left: Perspective looking north in the Hospital District.

Above: Current vs Proposed.

T H E B ENT WAY - P HA SE 2 PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE, TEMPORARY PLAZA AND FORT YORK RETAINING WALL Winner of the 2019 ASLA National Honour Award, 2019 CSLA National Award, 2019 AZ Award of Merit in Landscape Architecture & ‘People’s Choice’ Award, 2018 AZ Award ‘Best Ideas/Prototypes’, The Bentway in Toronto, began a number of new extension projects in 2019-2020 which are currently in the design development and construction documentation phases. These include the development of an alternative pedestrian crossing to a previously proposed parasitic suspended structure intended to hang from the Gardiner Expressway which passes through the park, a plaza at the future bridge’s western landing, and an extension of the Fort York Visitors Centre which extends the form of the existing building to seamless create a retaining wall and public path to the upper areas of the fort.

I worked on a number of design studies looking at cheap and quick wayfinding and placemaking strategies at the new eastern entrance to the extended park; various structural options for the pedestrian bridge alongside our engineering consultants including analyses of potential costly interactions with underground infrastructure; and, iterative designs for the extension of Patkau’s Fort York Visitors’ Centre to form a retaining wall.

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Top: Sketch perspective showing western bridge landing.

Bottom: Triptych of aerial perspectives showing landing construction phasing.

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Plaza lighting study showing proposed projection mapping and other lighting features

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Renders showing day and night of a first phase of the western landing plaza prior to pedestrian bridge construction, which is on hold until upgrades are complete on the expressway.

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In order to stabilize a slope after a washout after a storm, Public Work began work designing a retaining wall and an additional accessible pathway from The Bentway’s seasonal skating rink to the old fortress. The retaining wall is formed by a seamless extension of the design language of the existing Fort York Visitor Centre, designed by Patkau Architects.

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SWITCHBACK AREA FROM PREVIOUS PROPOSAL SHOWING 2M OFFSETS

SWITCHBACK AREA LIMITED BY 2M OFFSETS SHOWING 2M OFFSETS

Top: Analytical drawing showing how changed clearance requirements from the City of Toronto’s Engineering Department made previous bridge proposal unacceptable.

Bottom: Comparison showing previous proposal and an alternative ramp that does not intersect clearance envelopes, part of a package used to argue for a new landing plaza that provided alternative methods for maintaining the expressway structure.

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Analytical illustration showing required vehicular clearance below bridge structure.

Sample from a series of cross sectional axonometric drawings showing proposed bridge options potential interactions with underground infrastructure and subsurface mediums.

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Grounded with dampening cables

Cantilevered structure A

Cantilevered structure B

Friction clamp structure

Stirrup and bridle friction clamp structure

Truss and girder structure

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FOREGROUND HERBACIOUS EVERGREEN OR DECIDIOUS

MIDGROUND CLIMBER EVERGREEN

B AC KG R O U N D C L I M B E R DECIDIOUS

WHY? TO PROVIDE DENSER GROUND COVER AND HIDE POTENTIAL LEGGINESS OF VINES GROWING IN SHADE CONDITIONS.

WHY? EVERGREEN VINING OPTIONS AVAILABLE EITHER DON’T G R O W PA S T 1 . 5 M O R R EQ U I R E T I G H T M E S H O R P E R F O R AT E D S C R E E N W H I C H L I M I T S V I S U A L P E R M E A B I L I T Y.

WHY? NO EVERGREEN OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR CONDITIONS.

A Planting Strategy

BENTWAY TRUSS BRIDGE - PLANTING LIST

Options for maximizing planting on the bridge deck while maintaining seasonal interest with a limited shade tolerant planting palette.

Liriope spicata Creeping Lilyturf

Rhus aromatica ‘Gro-low’ Dwarf Fragrant Sumac

Euonymus fortunei ‘Coloratus’ Purple Leaf Winter Creeper

Hedera helix English Ivy / Baltic Ivy

Zone: 5 Decidious / Evergreen: Deciduous Height: 300mm Spread: 450mm Growth: Fast.

Water Requirement: Needs regular watering - weekly, more in extreme heat.

Type: Groundcover, grass-like.

Zone: 3-9 Decidious / Evergreen: Deciduous Height: 450-600mm Spread: 1830mm Growth: Fast.

Water Requirement: Dry to medium.

Type: Low Shrub

Zone: 4-9 Decidious / Evergreen: Evergreen Height: 1.5 m max height after 4-5 years Spread: 600-900mm Growth: Moderate to slow.

Water Requirement: Moderate.

Type: Vine - Climbing Twining, Vine - Cascading

Zone: 5a Decidious / Evergreen: Evergreen Height: 200mm as cover, climbs 6100mm.

Spread: Dense spreading ground cover Growth: Fast Type: Vine - Climbing Rootlet

Details: Slower growing evergreen vine alternative to English Ivy. It also requires a tighter mesh than Aristolochia durior and Parthenocissus vitacea. It should do fine on 15mm spaced mesh.

Cold hardy and durable, this might be a suitable midground evergreen vine to provide year round coverage up to 1.5m.

Details: A vigorous, creeping grass-like plant with pale lavender flowers that stand just above the foliage. In fall, the blooms are followed by spikes of black berries. Fast spreading plant for groundcover or border. Evergreen.

Viable Variants: - Flush to deck full planter.

Viable Variants: - Flush to deck full planter.

Foreground Herbacious

Use on Bridge

Viable Variants: - All planters.

Foreground Herbacious

Use on Bridge

Details: Prefers porous solid like brick or concrete. Can be trained up a very tight mesh. This may be as wide as 15mm spacing, but best on a tighter perforated screen.

Viable Variants: - All planters.

Midground Climber

Above: Excerpt of planting strategy documents showing how planting could be layered to maximize coverage and seasonal interest in limited planting volumes atop a truss and girder bridge.

Right: Sample of modular components info sheets indicating soil volume and planting strategies across the truss and girder bridge.

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Use on Bridge

Midground Climber

FOREGROUND 2.4 m2 MIDGROUND 1.2 m2

SOIL VOLUME ** Depth: 235mm Volume: 0.80 m3

BACKGROUND 0.7 m2

DRAINAGE BOARD Width: 50mm

TOTAL 4.265 m2

INSULATION Width: 50-100mm

PLANTING SURFACE AREA

OUTER Width: 12.7-25mm

BRIDGE STRUCTURE

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FLUSH FULL WIDTH PLANTER ** SOIL VOLUME Volume: .0.80 m3 Depth: 235mm Surface Area: 4.265 m2

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FOREGROUND 0.3 m2 MIDGROUND 0.3 m2

SOIL ** Depth: 695mm Volume: 1.20 m3

BACKGROUND 0.6 m2

DRAINAGE BOARD Width: 50mm

TOTAL 1.2 m2

INSULATION Width: 50-100mm

COVERED 1.3 m2

PLANTING SURFACE AREA

OUTER Width: 12.7-25mm

BRIDGE STRUCTURE

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STRAIGHT BENCH WITH BENCH HEIGHT PLANTER PERPENDICULAR STEEL SECONDARY TRUSS ** SOIL DETAILS Volume: 1.20 m3 Depth: 695mm Surface Area: 1.2 m2

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U NDER T H E K BROOKLYN / QUEENS, NEW YORK Completed in the summer of 2020, ‘Under the K’ is a new 7 acre park transformed an empty lot below the Brooklyn side of the Kosciuszko Bridge of the Brooklyn / Queens Expressway.

As a legacy project envisioned by outgoing Governor Andrew Cuomo, the project was developed under an extremely accelerated timeline with a kickoff meeting in the spring of 2018. Just two years later it is nearly open.

I worked in a support role, largely dealing with grading, concrete and landform structures. Shown on these pages is one of my favourite elements I drew, a massive landform known as the ‘Flex 2 berm’ which provides a sloped lawn for viewing a flexible performance area below. It utilizes woven metal caged lifts, similar in assembly to a gabion, in order to achieve an extreme slope that functions as a green wall and barrier between noisy traffic and performance spaces.

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Team: Adam Nicklin, Marc Ryan, Ben Matthews, Virginia Fernandez Rincon, Golnaz Jamshidi, Devin Tepleski, Luke Van Tol

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PLANTING SOIL

EROSION CONTROL BLANKET

REFER TO PLANTING PLAN FOR INTERIOR FACE AND TOP PANEL PLANTING

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HYDROSEEDED GRASS THROUGHOUT SUITABLE SITE FILL TO BE USE AS REINFORCED SOIL

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SHRUB PLANTING (ONLY WHERE INDICATED ON PLANTING PLAN): INSERT • •• • • • • •• •• • •• • • • • ••• 3• 4•••• • •••• • • ••••• ••••• • • • • • ••••• • • ••• • • •• • • • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• PUNCTURING THE EROSION CONTROL BLANKET. DO NOT CUT THE GEOGRID. LIVE STAKE TO PROTRUDE FROM SURFACE BY MIN 2", MAX 4" AND SO THAT A MINIMUM OF 2 BUDS ARE EXPOSED.

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WIRE MESH SLOPE REINFORCEMENT SYSTEM

North Brooklyn Park 86 Kent Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11249

DO NOT PLANT SHRUBS (LIVE STAKES) ALONG LOWEST ROW OF REINFORCEMENT UNITS

WIRE MESH SLOPE REINFORCEMENT SYSTEM, REFER TO TYPICAL DETAILS

FOUNDATION DRAIN

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Typical MSE Slope Elevation - Plant Spacing

3'-103 4" TYP SPACING 1 1 2 x 1 1 2" SHOP PAINTED STEEL T-BAR WITH HOLES (PAINT COLOUR FROM RAL STANDARD SERIES, TBD). WIRE FENCING TO BE 1 8" OUTER DIAMETER BLACK COLOR PVC COATED GALV. STEEL WIRE AT 7 3/4" VERTICAL SPACING.

WIRE MESH SLOPE REINFORCEMENT SYSTEM, REFER TO TYPICAL DETAILS

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NOTES REQUIRED FERTILIZATION APPLICATION REQUIRED FOR MSE SLOPES: IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING CONSTRUCTION OF MSE SLOPES, CONTRACTOR TO APPLY 3 APPLICATIONS OF SLOW RELEASE LIQUID FERTILIZER VIA WATER BOOM AT THE FOLLOWING TIMES: PRIOR TO HYDROSEEDING, AROUND MAY 2020 1 MONTH FOLLOWING TERRASEEDING, AROUND JUNE / JULY 2020 2 MONTHS FOLLOWING TERRASEEDING, PRIOR TO MID AUGUST.

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MSE Slope Section

FERTILIZER AND APPLICATION METHODS TO BE DETERMINED FROM TESTED SOIL IN MSE SLOPES. CONTRACTOR TO ORGANIZE AND PROVIDE TESTING AND SOIL REPORTS FOR RE-USED ON-SITE SOILS AND IMPORTED SOILS - SOIL REPORTS TO INCLUDE RECOMMENDATIONS BY LAB FOR FERTILIZER APPLICATION. FOR PRICING, ASSUME FERTILIZER WITH 6-12-12 RATIO OF NITROGEN, PHOSPHOROUS AND POTASSIUM AT A RATE OF 14LBS PER 1,000 SQ FT. SAME REGIMEN SHOULD BE REPEATED AS PART OF WARRANTIES MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES IN 2021, I.E. 3 APPLICATIONS STARTING IN • •• •• • • •• •• • • •• •• • •• • • •• • • • •• • • • •• • • •• • ••• •• •• •• • • • • • •• • • • •••• • •• • •• • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • DOGWOOD PLANTINGS (FROM CUTTINGS) AND TALLER PLANTS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF FERTILIZER SO THAT SOIL CONTACT CAN BE MADE - ASSUME FOR PRICING PURPOSES AND CONSULT WITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT PRIOR TO PROCEEDING.

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NEW GROU ND, H E A L IN G WO U N D S THE MNEMONICS OF LANDSCAPE SCARS AT GIANT MINE, YELLOWKNIFE, NT The remediation plan for Giant Mine is, quite literally, a coverup. It calls for 4.2 million cubic meters of fill to be blasted from on-site bedrock to cap the traumatic and toxic legacy of arsenic trioxide left behind as a byproduct of extraction. Doing so will conceal scars on the land, which speak of the former gold mine’s history and the ongoing risk the site presents.

My thesis project proposes an alternative which considers each remediative step as a space for mourning and connection to the land, built around the opportunity to harness the inertia of ongoing earthworks to carve new ground and reveal, rather than conceal. Through the sacrifice of earth materials at one quarry, as opposed to the distributed quarries in the current plan, the project will provide fill material to complete the remediation plan, while carving safe public access on a small, subwatershed scale. Through transformation of materials, primarily though the subtractive process of the cut, this project reveals five large scale monuments and tells a story about the place, the people and complexities of healing.

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BABY ABEL’S LIGHT Monument Description

At the south end of the site, below the 30-metre tall cliffs revealed from the cut, accumulates a reflecting pond which acts as the medium for ‘Baby Abel’s Light’. A slit cut into the rock acts as the outlet for the newly defined watershed and a simple lighting feature allowing ambient light from behind the wall to penetrate the shadows cast from the surrounding walls and dance upon the dark water.

In the early 1950s a small Dene boy died of arsenic poisoning from drinking poisoned snowmelt. He is the only confirmed death, though the Yellowknives Dene claim 3 to 4 more died. His mother, Rose Abel, rejected the $1,000 compensation.

At the lake side cemetery stands a simple wooden grave marker. “But all it said was Baby Abel... My mother told me about him when I was a teenager,” said Ernest, Baby Abel’s brother, now 57. “But I don’t know if she ever told me his name.” (Danylchuk 2012).

Baby Abel’s Light offers a more substantial memorialization of this child and a reminder to visitors that the loss of life and impacts to human health extend beyond the tragic bombing incident memorialized by the Miners’ Monument.

Jack Danylchuk (2012). Giant paid $1,000 for child’s death, say Yk Dene – Northern Journal. Norj.ca. Retrieved from https://norj. ca/2012/10/giant-paid-1000-for-childs-death-say-yk-dene/

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B OT T OMFEEDER [W IP] Developed for a studio entitled “Longitudinal Landscapes: Mud, Monitoring, and Mobilization” while I was a Designer-in-Residence at Autodesk, Bottomfeeder is a custom sensor technology that monitors bed load in fluvial systems and has potential for public interaction through the amplification and visualization of underwater sound. The device uses the force of the river to hug the bottom of the river, reading the vibrations of sediment particles as they pass over it. As a proof of concept, it is a fully functional hydrophone with an optional Arduino-controlled depth sensor component. The prototype was displayed in an interactive display at Autodesk Toronto where visitors were able to release particles atop an abstracted landscape model (designed with classmate, Aaron Hernandez). The released ‘sediment’ would trigger visualizations programmed in Max/MSP/Jitter in real-time as it passed over the device.

Next steps are to calibrate a Max/MSP/Jitter FFT script that gates the frequencies of real-time audio based on the premise that the audio profiles can be used to identify particle sizes. Similar studies by Mathieu Marineau of the USGS show promise and may have implications on the way we manage riverine landscapes.

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POTENTIAL INSTALLATION Reservoir Saddle

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POTENTIAL INSTALLATION Hydroelectric Dam

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T EMP L E OF MU D Situated between the Sunol Water Temple and Calaveras Intake Tower, two neoclassical Bay Area architectural icons celebrating water purity and their associated water infrastructures, the Temple of Mud oozes new ideas about what our relationship water can and should be. Through the twin programs of a sculpture gallery and mud baths, the Temple of Mud provides a novel strategy to justify the Sisyphean task of moving sediment captured behind the Calaveras Dam and reintroducing it downstream where it is needed to feed the San Francisco Baylands, which have been starved of nutrient rich sediment due to obstructing infrastructure like Calaveras Dam. Its form and context, atop the precarious Calaveras Faultline, also serve to question our control over natural systems and the longevity of the data we collect in our efforts to further that control.

A slurry is pumped up to the Temple atop Observation Hill and passed through an axial water feature. Then it drops into the underworld cistern at the entrance to ‘the archive’, where it is passed through a series of settlement ponds which operate as mud baths, allowing San Francisco’s citizens to immerse themselves in mud, overcoming deep-seated aversions to sediment. The thickened slurry is collected and returned to the Temple where two daily data documents, generated in real time from weather and stream monitoring station data, are 3D printed by colossal robots in the Temple of Mud. The first, a sacrifice, is placed out into the landscape downstream from the Temple where it slowly decays and is reintroduced to the rivers. A second copy is fired and stored in the archive as an analog document of the data.

Team members: Devin Tepleski (landscape, sculpting, Grasshopper) & John Nyguyen (architecture)

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Time

Data Elevations

2017: A RECORD OF SEDIMENT A Grasshopper script took local weather, reservoir and sediment data, creating unique, decipherable 3d printed obelisks documenting each day of the year. Patterns and sequences emerge, highlighting invisible relationships between the data points.

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THE ARCHIVE Render of the underground archive, containing fired data obelisks.

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THE MUD BASINS Render of the mud basins, which serve dual roles as public mud baths and settling ponds used in the processing of material for 3D printed data obelisks.

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THE SACRIFICE Render of the sacrificial data obelisks. Exposed to the elements, they transform, releasing sediment slowly as the binder breaks down. Render completed using Autodesk Mudbox, Maya, Rhino, VRay and Photoshop.

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ROC KC L I FFE FLOO D WAY PA R K An analysis of budgeted infrastructure spending across the City of Toronto was used to find clusters of projects involving multiple municipal departments that were indicative of a common problem: flooding. Large tracts of publicly owned land in proximity to the infrastructure spending clusters were catalogued in order to determine possible sites for parks that could be developed to contain and manage stormwater. A site, across from the soon to be closed Rockcliffe Middle School was selected for its size, its situation at the fork of two channelized creeks, and nearby spending related to endemic flooding. The ensuing project, which involved hydrological analysis and flood simulation, led to a long term relationship with Black Creek Alliance, a community activist group fighting the sale of the site to a meatpacking company that wishes to build in the middle of this largely residential neighbourhood. I continue to assist BCA and community on design, technical review and communications strategy.

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SITE LEGEND SITE LEGEND

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SITE ANALYSIS Select Spatial Analyses

All of these buildings were reported to have flooding within the study area.

Four strategies were deployed as part of a stormwater management solution. Berming, capping of a toxified portion of the site, relocation of an existing landscaping business to the soon to be abandoned school site, and cutting to create an intermittent wetland area and pond.

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Through the relocation of services in zone C to Zone A...

... the lowest part of the floodplain could be reclaimed for stormwater management and utilized to connect an array of multi-use trail termini in the surrounding area.

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DESIGN Flood Simulations

Flood simulations of the proposed park design were developed utilizing both GIS and 3D modelling tools to ensure the park could maintain an increased quantity of stormwater before inundating the surrounding properties. This is accomplished with dock-like weir structures that redirects high water on the smaller Lavender Creek as it flows along its renaturalized diagonal meander across the site. As water levels rise the excess flow is redirected to the pond and away from Black Creek. The lower reaches of the site are also cut to provide additional capacity for Black Creek to breach.

ELEVATION RAMPING OF CURRENT CONDITIONS

The city approved of the sale to the meat packing company. Less than two months later two individuals nearly drowned trapped in an elevator at the basement of 501 Alliance, one of the regularly flooded buildings, directly across Black Creek from the site. It remains the position of Black Creek Alliance that this site should not be developed for an industrial use that could further increase flooding.

ELEVATION RAMPING OF PROPOSED CONDITIONS

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REFERENCE: Anholt, Jill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Preliminary Engineering Drawings Provided by Artist.â&#x20AC;? Waterfront Toronto / Quinn Dressel Associates, Nov. 2008.

S I T E T EC H NOLOG IE S: R E M IX Each student was assigned a park at which they were to choose a feature to research and create a technical drawing set of the feature as constructed.

Afterwards, each student had to redevelop the feature using an entirely new set of materials, requiring an understanding of materials, their joints and assemblies beyond the original. Finally, a drawing set for a sectional model was completed and a classmate was assigned to construct the model.

For my piece I chose Light Showers, a sculptural fountain element at the PFSdesigned park, Sherbourne Common, in Toronto, ON. Originally composed of concrete and steel, my remixed version of the project utilized cedar slats, drawing inspiration from classic canoe and wood boat construction.

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Devin Tepleski

Drawing Number:

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CNC Bent Glulam Frame 32x6mm Clear Cedar Strips w/ Routed Bead and Cove Edge

38x89s of white spruce or equivalent. Overall length varies.

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Bolt Fastener and Washer 25mm Steel Standoff Tread-tipped Embed Plate

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Remove forms after wood strip membrane glue-up dries.

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Devin Tepleski

Drawing Number:

D13.06

RIGHT FORM STATIONS (PART OF ASSEMBLY 3R) Cut from 3mm thick basswood or equivilant slotted into through dado cuts on frame of Assembly 3R. Mark dashed vertical isocurve line to indicate where woodstrips of opposing diagonal orientations join.

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ASSEMBLY 4

ASSEMBLY 4

ASSEMBLIES 3L AND 3R Finish wood strip membrane with cedar coloured stain and topcoat of Minwax Wipe-On Poly Clear Gloss.

Finish form station boards on Assembly 3R with Minwax Wipe-On Poly Clear Satin.

Finish frame with Minwax Wipe-On Poly Clear Satin.

ASSEMBLIES 3L AND 3R

Finish wood strip membrane with cedar coloured Finish form station boards on Assembly 3R with M Finish frame with Minwax Wipe-On Poly Clear Sa

ASSEMBLIES 2L AND 2R

ASSEMBLIES 2L AND

ASSEMBLY 1

ASSEMBLY 1

3mm DEEP DADO THROUGH CUTS SHOWN

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ISOCURVE MARKER INDICATES JOINT WHERE DIAGONAL WOOD STRIPS MEET. CUT WOOD STRIPS TO JOIN AT THIS LINE.

6mm x 3mm BASSWOOD OR EQUIVALANT WOOD STRIPS CUT TO LENGTH. PLACE FROM OUTSIDE IN AND TRIM AT ISOCURVE MARKER. HOLD TO FORM STATIONS USING ELASTIC BANDS DURING GLUE-UP. REMOVE STATIONS FROM ASSEMBLY 3L AFTER 6mm x 3mm BASSWOOD OR EQUIVALANT WOOD

GLUE CURES (SHOWN REMOVED) ISOCURVE MARKER INDICATES JOINT WHERE DIAGONAL WOOD STRIPS MEET. CUT WOOD STRIPS TO JOIN AT THIS LINE. 3mm THICK BASSWOOD OR EQUIVALANT INTO 3mm DEEP THROUGH DADO CUTS.

STRIPS CUT TO LENGTH.

PLACE FROM OUTSIDE IN AND TRIM AT ISOCURVE

MARKER. HOLD TO FORM STATIONS USING SLOTTED ELASTIC BANDS DURING GLUE-UP.

REMOVE STATIONS FROM ASSEMBLY 3L AFTER GLUE CURES (SHOWN REMOVED) 3mm THICK BASSWOOD OR EQUIVALANT SLOTTED INTO 3mm DEEP THROUGH DADO CUTS.

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stain and topcoat of Minwax Wipe-On Poly Clear Gloss.

Minwax Wipe-On Poly Clear Satin. atin.

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13mm THICK BASSWOOD OR EQUIVALANT WITH CARVED EDGE. 3mm DEEP DADO THROUGH CUTS SHOWN

Ele 13mm x 13mm THICK BASSWOOD SQUARE DOWEL OR EQUIVALANT WITH OUTSIDE EDGE CARVED OR ROUTED TO 5mm WIDTH13mm THICK BASSWOOD

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CARVED EDGE.

OR EQUIVALANT WITH

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Element: 13mm x 13mm THICK BASSWOOD SQUARE DOWEL OR EQUIVALANT WITH OUTSIDE EDGE CARVED OR ROUTED TO 5mm WIDTH

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Axonometric - Assemblies 3L / 3R - 1:10 Scale Representational Sectional Model Student Name:

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Devin Tepl

S EL EC T WORK S The following images are assembled primarily from course work over the last three years. Most are from Visual Communications, a class in visual representation techniques that I have also acted as a teaching assistant for the last two years of my MLA degree.

The initial images are of a case study of Mt. Hiriya, by Latz and Partners. This collection also includes select work from my work at ISL Engineering in Calgary on the design for the new Waterton National Park Visitor Centre and examples of Grasshopper scripts I developed.

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GRASSHOPPER TERRAIN MODIFICATION & ANALYSES Three examples of Grasshopper applied to modify, populate and analyze terrain.

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CONNECT LOCAL WATERSHEDS IN SETTLING PONDS A custom Grasshopper script for regrading landform into staged settling ponds around an axis.

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INTERVENTION B Scenario: Connect local watersheds in weired ponds

POND 1 A = MID ELEV OF POND 2 POND 2

POND 3 B = TOP OF RIDGE

W AT E R S H E D A N A LY S I S

RETENTION POND TOP ELEV = B

BOTTOM ELEV = A

DETENTION PONDS

DETERMINE HIGH AND LOW POINT SEGMENT TERRACES ALONG AXIS

CONNECT

20X VERTICAL ISOMETRIC SECTION T I LT

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D E V I N

J O H N

348 St. Clarens Ave Toronto, ON

M6H 3W3

T E P L E S K I 204.492.0624 devin@myriadfront.com