The proposed artwork is a narrative into the history of the New Fort Site, and the East Enlisted Mens’ Barracks. It serves to protect Toronto’s military legacy by preserving the memories of the soldiers who trained and resided at the garrison, who offered their lives to their country and in doing so, played a significant role in Toronto’s development.

 

“Droplet”: The final pavilion and trellis symbolizes the importance of water, paying tribute to the area’s distinctive ravine system and the community activities in and around the area. It highlights the important connection with the site’s history and its natural setting, and its role in shaping both the physical and social fabrics of the region.

The openings in the GFRC panels give way to a galaxy blue anodized aluminum material below. As the viewer moves past and around the pavilion, different wavelengths of light are reflected back to the audience. The result is an ever-changing colour gradient with iridescent highlights that create the illusion of moving water and running river streams. The trellis also shares the same formal characteristics of the GFRC facade providing seating and shading opportunities where residents and visitors can rejoice in the skating activities or enjoy the scenery of the reflective pool and overall park.

The project sees the adaptive reuse of a significant piece of Canadian aviation heritage, transforming the original warehouses and adding new infill extensions to become the educational spaces for Centennial College’s Aerospace and Aviation program.

The interior offices and classroom spaces feature a sensitive mix of original and new materials, allowing the historical character to express itself.

Building Design by MJMA & Stantec

Photo Credit: Scott Norsworthy

This urban infill project is a playful take on the side-by-side typology. The two volumes are offset from each other to maximize sun exposure and privacy, while the material explorations celebrate the neighbourhood’s fabric and identity.

This series of homes brings unique identity to a new development that is currently in the rezoning and planning stages. Playing with contemporary rooflines, the multiple designs offer opportunities for harnessing light into the interior spaces, as well as providing ample area for the addition of solar panels while bringing variety to this newly proposed subdivision.

Nestled between two rivers, community parks, and commercial corridors, the project brings urban infill to a small municipality in need of new growth and modern housing typologies. Providing semi-detached homes and rental townhomes with a focus on affordability and accessibility, this development aims to appeal to a wide variety of community members. The townhomes feature fully accessible rental units, as well as units with easy accessibility retrofit options, allowing for tenant variety and future-proofing to become key components of the design.

This renovation to a 1950s narrow single family home took the compartmentalized layout and modernized it. Desiring a space that allowed the young family to transition seamlessly from work to play, flexibility and simplicity is achieved through the open floor plan, providing unobstructed views and flow from front to back with a central focus on the kitchen where much of daily life takes place.

The main floor is featured in CBC’s Workin’ Moms, seasons 6 & 7.

The aim of the outdoor pool pavilion was to establish a clear connection between the pool and the existing Fairgrounds Park. The changerooms are housed inside a row of separate volumes unified under a single sloped canopy, pierced by polycarbonate skylights that fill the interior spaces with daylight. The building’s volumes are topped by vertical cedar slats that match the canopy’s cedar lining and allow for air to flow through. The hallways between the changerooms ensure cross ventilation, as well as offer direct views into the pool deck, and in the opposite direction, to the park.

 

Building Design by MJMA

Photo Credit: Shai Gil

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Nestled between two wetlands and a shoreline notorious for flooding, this project becomes a challenge of constraints and boundaries. Working to find a balance between optimizing residential development while treading lightly on the land and respecting the importance of natural wetlands, the result is a dymanic subdivision proposal featuring long deep lots and multiple public connections to nature.