Asides

2010-09-06T00:51:00.001-04:00

2010-06-22T18:02:00.000-04:00

2010-05-28T17:15:00.002-04:00

ARCH 2.0: Proposal for a new web identity for the University of Waterloo School of Architecture

2010-01-27T19:35:00.001-05:00

Fantôme de Croix Rouge
January 2010

Team: Alejandro Fernandez, John Lee, Rob Micacchi

The Fantôme de Croix Rouge (Phantom of Croix Rouge) reconciles the history of the Place Michel Debré in Paris, otherwise known as the Carrefour Croix Rouge, with present and future conditions. The Fantôme project acts as a backdrop to Le Centaure de César (César’s Centaur), a controversial installation to the site by acclaimed Spanish sculptor César Baldiccini in 1985. Despite the presence of this spectacular statue, however, the site is rather unremarkable. The Centaur is situated at the head of a narrow peninsula, most of which is either used for motorbike parking or dominated by a large ventilation grille. Pedestrian usage is limited to a narrow strip adjacent to a shop at the foot of the peninsula.
Therefore, the Fantôme celebrates the past of Croix Rouge while providing a pleasant backdrop for the statue at a busy
Parisian intersection. Sectional steel doors, their panels perforated with the tile pattern of the hidden Métro station, slide up from below grade to create a ‘phantom’ station at grade. In a nod to the controversy surrounding the statue, a
metal frame—representing the train tunnel—conceals a folding partition that can be deployed to cover the ‘offending parts’ of the statue. Finally, to make the space more pleasant, composite metal panels are used in the space of the
existing ventilation grille to act as a sound barrier between the trains below and the new intervention above.

2010-01-22T21:46:00.002-05:00

Giannone Petricone Associates
January 2008

Responsibilities: Presentation Drawings

The myriad capabilities of Caesarstone are highlighted in Setting Stone, a booth by Giannone Petricone Associates for Ciot at the 2008 Interior Design Show in Toronto.

These illustrations were published in the Globe and Mail, February 15, 2008.

2009-05-09T15:59:00.000-04:00

2009-02-18T22:14:00.006-05:00

Tickets for a formal ball that fold up into ties and flowers.

2009-02-09T15:11:00.005-05:00

Studies for approximately 1,000 square feet of graphic panels- large mosaics composed of images from Flickr and archives.

2009-02-08T22:04:00.001-05:00

2009-02-04T22:17:00.001-05:00

Device for integrating a very small LED light into one of those rubber key caps. You know, for when it's really dark and it's hard to see the lock.

2008-06-25T08:43:00.001-04:00

A Channel 9 Special on Ken Smith.

2008-02-17T12:14:00.001-05:00

Studies for a facade in a transient neighbourhood.

2008-01-29T12:28:00.002-05:00

2007-11-19T21:21:00.004-05:00

House of Rooms challenges boundaries: their physical manifestation, their influence on spatial perception, and their necessity to domesticity. The site, an extremely narrow strip between an aqueduct in the Roman campagna and an existing building, has a magical ’secret’ quality that a typical dwelling would have obliterated. Instead, independent, sculptural ‘rooms’ curiously occupy the space while maintaining its integrity; only the resident can unlock the ‘house’ from the ‘rooms’.

2007-09-23T14:38:00.001-04:00

2007-09-18T21:48:00.002-04:00

2006-12-04T22:21:00.001-05:00

2006-11-20T14:41:00.001-05:00

An architecture student’s nightmare- deprived of sleep, obsessed by work, architecture begins to pervade even the most mundane aspects of our everyday lives.

With Michael Lin.

2006-10-24T21:54:00.001-04:00

2006-10-01T21:41:00.001-04:00

The Plastic Garden aims to revitalize the moat adjacent to Toronto's regional transit hub, Union Station, a space that, despite its neglect, is traversed by thousands of commuters every day. The intention is to diffuse this traffic and introduce a condition conducive to longer stays in the space. The insertion of bright, playful plastic trees is a stark contrast to the dreary surroundings and compensates for the lack of light, as the moat is permanently shadowed by Union Station to the south. The introduction of seating and soft, undulating flooring in key areas ‘furnish’ the space and creates an inviting quality, turning the moat into an outdoor extension of the waiting areas indoors.

2006-02-04T12:42:00.001-05:00

A preliminary study for the design of a hotel at the corner of King and Charlotte Streets in Toronto. The intent of the study was to determine not only the feasibility of the site, but to adapt the design of the hotel to the site. Based on analytical techniques from “The Social Logic of Space”, by Hillier and Hanson, the study allowed us to address the needs of the site through the design of our hotels. Visualizations and flythroughs of the analysis realized our statistically-derived interpretation of the site.

With Rob Micacchi.