Supervising: Donald McKay

Project: Design Studio, Spring 2018

Program: Library + Community Centre

Location: Dundas Street W. at Old Weston

This project is set in the post-industrial neighborhood around the Junction at Dundas West in Toronto. The focus is to create a community center which reflects its community: serving as a library, community kitchen and assembly hall.

The building’s plan imitates a common industrial building type: 2 building blocks with a former service corridor converted to an atrium. The exterior also reflects the post-industrial surroundings, using a heavy concrete and corten steel base to support the colossal glulam columns and tall windows of the upper floors. The windows are further used as reveals against the columns to emphasize the exaggerated structure,

playing with expectations of solids and voids.