INTENT
HELEN GLASS CENTRE
EDUCATION BUILDING 1
Lounge-Walk is a public structure that aims to connect JAR and C.A.S.T to break the uncertainty that faculty of Architecture students feel about C.A.S.T. and to have the facility be recognized as an important part of the faculty as a whole.
HELEN GLASS CENTRE
EDUCATION BUILDING 1
ARCH 2
ARCH 2
RUSELL BUILDING
SERVICE STREET 4S
EITC
PARKING LOT 'J'
In the group’s initial site analysis, the group noticed how the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology building (C.A.S.T) was forgotten and disregarded in the group’s context plan. The group observed that there is a hierarchy between the Faculty of Architecture buildings with the John A. Russell building (JAR) at the top of the hierarchy, Architecture 2 in second, the Education building in third, and C.A.S.T. in the bottom of the hierarchy.
PARKING LOT "O"
STANLEY PAULEY CENTRE
PARKING LOT 'J'
MUSIC BUILDING
MUSIC BUILDING
In the end, the group chose to connect JAR and C.A.S.T., because JAR is frequently used for public lectures, studio reviews and exhibitions. Lecture rooms in JAR are also used by non-faculty students and bus users also use JAR to go to the tunnels. Meanwhile, C.A.S.T. is important to the faculty as it participates in an expanding constellation of world-class research facilities within and beyond the university. C.A.S.T. also seeks to promote research benefiting students, researchers, the industry, the public and the planet.
CAST BUILDING
STANLEY PAULEY CENTRE
PARKING LOT "O"
CAST BUILDING
DAFOE ROAD
DAFOE ROAD
Initial Context Plan
35
EITC
SERVICE STREET 4S
RUSELL BUILDING
01 5 10
20
50m