Year 3, ENDS 302 (Studio)
Vancouver, Spring 2012
Done in pairs. It focused on the elaboration of a student residence building and the design of its surrounding landscape.
Located within UBC, we were granted access to official plans.. These worked as templates. My partner (Olivér Szeleczky) and I looked and used Le Corbusier’s La Tourette’s room dimensions as our building block. We began by elaborating a new program based on Le Corbusier’s measurements. The insertion of a narrow atrium resulted on a wider structure at certain points, signaling the location of the residential rooms. We ended up with a mixed used unit. A place where academics and student housing mix in harmony.
With the building in place, we continued on with the landscape. Meant to mimic the sequence from campus to beach. Resulting a zone of hard edges, followed by a forested slope to a "sandbox", allowing for a diversity of activities.
The HUB
