Lake Banook, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia The Regatta Racing Center creates a dialogue between land and water views, and public and private spaces. A green roof system covers the entire structure in an undulating canopy, as though one were to slice into the existing slope and gently lift it up, inserting the building underneath. Minimizing the [...]
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
CHAIRS TABLES MALL PRODUCT After graduating from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Design in industrial design, I worked for a few years as a furniture, graphic & website designer, both with Edmonton companies and as a freelance designer. The pieces shown here may have initially been concepts I started, but without a [...]
SILICATE COLONIES
The Clay Studio (TCS) building, Philadelphia As Neil Forrest, professor of ceramics at NSCAD describes, “Silcate Colonies is a unique structure planned as both a sculptural image and bio-habitat. It is envisioned as a ‘structure for living’ which will ascend a building facade. The project will be an intricate matrix that offers shelter in a [...]
SOUNDGARDEN
Halifax North Memorial Public Library, Nova Scotia Overview The sculpture acts as a visual stop to the garden strip that extends from the neighboring apartment block. The Podium acts as a raised stage in this view. The finish on the canopy is a prismatic acrylic paint that will reflect the sky in myriad ways, reminiscent [...]
STRUCTURAL BAY
Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Halifax, Nova Scotia Drawing on inspiration from the Tokyo Olympic Stadium by Kenzo Tange, our goal was to create a structure that was both tensile and compressive in nature, light weight, stable under load and aesthetically pleasing. Design Concept: The arch is a structure used throughout history in the architectural [...]
HOUSE AND THE CITY
Workshop with Brian MacKay-Lyons This was an intense week-long workshop with Halifax architects Brian MacKay-Lyons and Talbot Sweetapple of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architecture and Urban Design Studio. It began with a study of urban typology, followed by exercises in site analysis, concept sketching and sketch model-making. The ultimate goal was to design a residential urban space [...]
THE CUBE
Architectural Representation Study p r o · p o r · t i o n n. A relationship between things or parts of things with respect to comparative magnitude, quantity, or degree. Measurements of my body were used as the foundation for the layout of the cube. Conducting various proportional studies on my body type [...]
