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Publication in The Plan Journal
An article I wrote has recently been published in the peer reviewed journal The Plan Journal. The full paper is available to read online or for download here. The Plan Journal is also…
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Polyvalent Adaptation wins Canadian Architect Award
My masters thesis ‘Polyvalent Adaptation’ recently received the Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence for 2016 by a jury that included Patricia Patkau, David Sisam and Manon Asselin. It was also featured…
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Sky-o-Swale, Scarborough
Construction was completed a couple years ago on the Sky-O-Swale and sports court that I helped design and construct with the local community while at E.R.A. Architects. The project is located at…
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Community Kitchen Patio, Scarborough
Last year construction finished on the community kitchen landscape and shade structure at the East Scarborough Storefront. I helped to design and construct the project while I was working at E.R.A. Architects…
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Vertical Agora, M.Arch, UBC
As urban populations and densities increase, there is a need to create new public spaces. Resulting from technological limitations, zoning regulations and building codes, our cities are filled with blocks containing similar…
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C.A.M.P., Gastown, Vancouver
Centre for Architecture, Media and Politics (C.A.M.P.) midterm presentation boards. Pencil on paper.
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Irish Agricultural Ghost Estates, M.ARCH, UBC
The following project looks to combine the social and physical repercussions of both the Celtic Tiger boom and collapse of the Irish housing market to create a new residential/agricultural typology. As construction…
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Informal Affluent Urbanism, M.ARCH, UBC
My design proposal for this term is to re-contextualize the informal architecture of the urban south and developed world by projecting its forms, networks and relationships in the future cities of the…
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Asset Urbanism Research, UBC
This fall I will be exploring the idea of Asset Urbanism through a combination of research and design. As a group, we developed 34 case studies that are all different spatial results…
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Edward King Chapel in Revit, UBC
This summer I have been taking part in a Revit course at UBC. I chose to model the Edward King Chapel in Cuddesdon, UK. It was designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects and…
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HCMA ‘The Wall House’, Vancouver, BC
While working at Hughes Condon Marler Architects’ (HCMA) this summer I helped design a submission for the Canfor Playhouse Challenge. If our design wins, it will be constructed and auctioned off as part of…
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Oleleshwa Finalist at Kenyan Architecture Awards
The design Karl Sarkis and I developed for Oleleshwa Primary School in Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya has received recognition at the Architectural Association in Kenya’s ‘Awards of Excellence in Architecture’. Oleleshwa Primary School was…
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SKY-O-SWALE CONSTRUCTION, SCARBOROUGH, ON
Construction continues on the Sky-o-Swale that I helped design while I worked at E.R.A. Architects. The canted re-used hydro poles are currently in place, being held up by temporary structure, and are…
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TRC Presentation, M.Arch, UBC
Our final presentation and model for our Truth and Reconciliation Centre.
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Truth and Reconciliation Centre, M.Arch, UBC
As part of our comprehensive design studio this past spring I partnered up with Roy Cloutier for the term. Together we designed a Truth and Reconciliation Centre located on the UBC campus between the two…
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TRC Sketches, M.ARCH, UBC
Below is a couple sketches I created as part of our process of designing a Truth and Reconciliation Centre.
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Truth and Reconciliation Centre, M.ARCH, UBC
Below is the documentation that Roy and I created for our most recent pin-up in the process of designing a Truth and Reconciliation Centre.
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System Integration, M.Arch, UBC
The following drawing explores system integration for our Truth and Reconciliation Centre. This is part of the comprehensive design studio, for which I am partnered with Roy Cloutier.
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Designing in Detail, M.Arch, UBC
Roy Cloutier and I developed the following drawings to explore materiality and relationships in our building design through details for our Truth and Reconciliation Centre. This is a continuation from the Experiential Possibilities Section; the Site,…
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First Oleleshwa Unit Finished, Kenya
We have finally finished our first two-classroom unit at Oleleshwa Primary School in Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya. The cistern to collect the water from the large roof has now been delivered and installed.…
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Truth and Reconciliation Centre, M.ARCH, UBC
Below is a series of photographs of the model Roy Cloutier and I made for our midterm design presentation.
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Truth and Reconciliation Centre, M.ARCH, UBC
This past Thursday, my design partner Roy Cloutier and I gave our mid-term presentation for our Truth and Reconciliation Centre. This is a continuation from both the Experiential Possibilities Section, and the…
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Rethinking our Perspective of the Maasai
Below is an essay I researched and wrote during my Master of Architecture at UBC. It is based on academic papers, books and personal first hand observations in Kenya. It suggests a…
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Site, Structure, Light and Air, M.ARCH, UBC
The second week of our comprehensive design studio Roy and I continued our exploration of the experiential possibilities of a Truth and Reconciliation Centre. This time our section also includes exploration of…
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Experiential Possibilities, M.Arch, UBC
My studio course this semester is a comprehensive design studio which is completed as a design team of two people. I have partnered up with Roy Cloutier for the term. Our program…
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Life Transition Centre, M.Arch, UBC
The final design project for this term took the Timber Shell system I developed earlier, and applied it to a Life Transition Centre program in Granville Park, Vancouver, BC.
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Oleleshwa Primary School – Breezeway Construction, Kenya
Construction of the breezeway/exterior classroom commenced this fall in Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya. Once construction finishes this will complete the first two classroom unit for the school. See here for information about this…
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Timber Shell System Design, M.Arch, UBC
The first half of my fall design studio focused on the design of a wood shell structural system. After research into existing wood technologies and different types of shell structures, I decided…
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Oleleshwa Night Raises Over $14,000
The fundraiser I co-hosted in January, to raise funds for the construction of Oleleshwa Primary School (see above) in Kenya, raised over $14,000. Approximately 175 people attended the evening event in downtown…
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Oleleshwa
This is the first completed classroom of Oleleshwa Primary School (Ewaso Ngiro, Kenya) that Karl Sarkis and I designed and traveled to Kenya to help construct with Harambee 4 Humanity. Classroom 2…
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New Sigma 10-20 Lense
Should make for some neat photos throughout my trip.
