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Jinsu Park is an architectural designer currently working in Switzerland with previous work experience in S. Korea, USA, Canada and Japan. He has obtained his Bachelor's in Architectural Studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada and is in the process of obtaining his Master's of Science in Architecture at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland. Jinsu has an interest in human scale design and the vernacular of different regions all over world. His work has been exhibited globally including in Canada, Japan and most recently at the 17th Venice Architectural Biennale in 2021.
-Founding Partner at Aleph-Bau -Visiting/sessional lecturer at UWaterloo and UofT -Experience as an architect at OMA and SOM -Internship at Office dA -Experience as an independent architect & at Jameh Technique -Professional experience covers a range of projects from small residential to large scale urban projects in China, US, England, The Netherlands, and Iran.
Michael Fohring is a co-founder of Odami, a Toronto-based design studio. The studio’s work ranges from architectural design to interiors, furniture, and small objects, and has won local and international awards, including the Designlines Designer of the Year, an AN Interior Award, and a Canadian Interiors Award. Through challenging the conventions of typology and traditional building techniques, the studio’s focus is to produce work which is highly contextual and well-crafted, yet playful and unexpected. Prior to starting Odami, Michael worked in architectural offices in Montreal, Toronto, and Austria. In addition to the work of the studio, Michael has maintained a regular role as a sessional instructor since 2017, teaching at both the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Interior Design and the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Michael completed his B.Sc.Arch and M.Arch degrees at McGill University in Montreal, where he was named to the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Honour Roll, and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and the RAIC Student Medal. Michael was also named amongst 30 international designers under 30 in 2018, awarded by the New York City-based One Club for Creativity.
Arancha González Bernardo (B.Sc.Arch, M.Arch: ETSAC, A Coruña, Spain; BCIN) is a Spanish architect and co-founder of Odami, an architectural and design firm based out of Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2017, the studio focuses on residential and commercial projects, supplemented with material experimentation and furniture and object design. Prior to co-founding Odami, Arancha worked in offices in Spain, Austria, and Canada, collaborating on projects in cities across Europe and North America. Arancha completed her studies in Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in La Coruña, Spain, with a specialty in Theory and Design. In addition to Odami, Arancha is a Sessional Lecturer at the School of Interior Design of the Toronto Metropolitan University.
Mark is committed to the exploration of visual compositions and spatial experiences using digital tools. In addition to his architectural training, he has a background in oil painting and building envelope consulting. Having participated in and won multiple design competitions in his time as a student, he is keenly aware of - and always challenging - the boundary between virtual architecture and built architecture. Mark is currently an architectural designer at Henriquez Partners Architects in Vancouver. He Holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Waterloo.
Katrina is an architect and design manager at JDS Development Group, an innovative real estate development, construction, and acquisition firm responsible for the creation of numerous residential, hospitality, and mixed-use projects in New York City and Miami. Currently, Katrina is managing design for 888 Brickell Avenue, in Miami, Florida, set to be the tallest building in the city upon completion. Prior to joining JDS, she worked in design at various boutique design firms in New York City before becoming a development associate and licensed real estate salesperson at Alloy Development. She is committed to promoting a holistic and collaborative approach to real estate development that brings together design, sales and marketing. She is a dedicated mentor at Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale and a team leader for the ACE Mentor Program of Greater NY. She holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.
Winners
1st Place
"EMBODIED" The Last Vacation
In this project, working pair with Arif Izzuddin Arif Ismail we explore the idea of "human dead," creating a process of a human going to end his life, which produces sources and energy from the death, and in an alternate timeline, creating a new starting dimension of constructing a building, which is started from sources and energy. They can create a building material and an extension of a building.
Aiman Hakim Rahman
March 22, 2023
2nd Place
UNDER THE ROOF - WOODEN STRUCTURE DESIGN
This is my undergraduate work, it has two backgrounds: 1. The topic of the class is wooden structure design - public building or residential building 2. Villages and towns in southern China lack public facilities. There are many interesting social activities here, such as opera troupes wandering between villages and towns, traditional Chinese weddings and so on. I hope to provide a suitable and decent residence + public buildings for the Village.
Yuqiao Sun
April 18, 2023
3rd Place
Urban Agriculture as an agent of socio-environmental transformation
Sustainable food production and consumption are critical societal demands all around the world. In an era of scarcity of natural resources, frequent climate change, and a society heavily hit by food insecurity, expanding access to and supply of food with less environmental impact while reducing losses and waste should be a priority. Urban agriculture emerges as a potential solution to a number of interconnected issues in urban systems, including waste management, health, land use, the possibility of reducing distances between production and consumption, the use of open spaces in the city, the disposal of household garbage, and the generation of occupational activity with subsequent income generation. Furthermore, it can actively impact in city adaptation to climate change and sanitary crises, such as the present COVID-19 pandemic. The Agroecological Pavilion aims to combine the commercialization of affordable food with uses aimed at education and professionalization in a building lined on the premises of sustainable architecture and open to community participation in order to reduce negative environmental impacts, food insecurity, and food waste. Additionally, it enables a generator of employability, income, and education targeted for people who are in social vulnerability.
Ana Carolina Borile
April 21, 2023
4th Place
PANO REHABILITATION PLACE FOR MS
Rehabilitation centers are not offering suitable settings for patients to heal physically. By confining physical therapy to a single room, these facilities do not encourage movement, stimulation of the senses, or aid in patients' recovery. Rather than limiting physical therapy to a specific space, the infrastructure of rehabilitation centers, such as hallways and corridors, could be utilized to create an interactive and dynamic experience for patients. To achieve holistic well-being, this project will explore the concept of designing spaces for physical rehabilitation. Theories of healing spaces will be examined in conjunction with the gradual healing process through mobility and exercise to create a circulation system for a physical rehabilitation center.
Anisa Cenaj
March 11, 2023
5th Place
Prosthetic Enhancement
PROSTHETIC ENHANCEMENT is a case study project that deals with the development of a specific plot in a site, Dreispitz, ripe for heavy transformation. Understanding and accepting the political and economic pressures that plan to raise the effective surface of the plot by 120%, the project looks to minimize its impact on the existing logistics building and preserve with respect the industrial tradition that defined the identity of the site. A light roof is suspended above the building by a new steel structure touching the ground in only 15 points along the front façade. Following a strong structural precept to minimise the intervention and preserve the integrity of the hall, the intervention limits itself to the addition of a new façade and a new roof. Balancing forces as a mean of design in equilibrium, the two structural surfaces are expanded into double-layer elements revealing a space for air circulation working as a regulating medium of comfort for the spaces it envelops. Together, they form an extension that will host rentable spaces for laboratories and artists’ ateliers on top of the existing hall.
Romain Iff
March 20, 2023
Honorable Mention
Solar Steps
Solar Steps explores how thresholds define relationships between residential programs. What architectural interventions can exist between interior and exterior and between domestic and public program? How can thresholds can be pushed and pulled to merge or define layers of separation and create gradient degrees of transparency? This layering of thresholds and inhabited intermediary spaces imagines a dynamic form of collective living where the individual resident’s relationship to their neighbours and to the broader community become at the same time more connected and more flexible: Agency over where and how to draw the boundary between personal and community space is given to the residents themselves.
Nicole Cao
March 26, 2023
Honorable Mention
Tenganan Village Center in Bali
“Architecture is built for the future. But not everyone actually sees the future value inside a traditional village. The future value of traditional villages is way more important as it directly contributes to a sense of place and connection to the past.“ Tenganan Pegringsingan is one of the oldest Balinese villages that still survives today. Before 1970, many anthropologists considered Tenganan is one of the most isolated and secluded societies. However, in 2015, Tenganan went through some village development promoted by the local government to shift from a traditional village into a tourism village. The change then raises problems ranging from spatial problems such as accessibility to regional identity. To overcome the existing problem, the author used the fundamental Balinese traditional philosophy, Tri Hita Karana, as the source of inspiration for the proposed renewal strategy.
Dharma Wijaya
April 23, 2023
Honorable Mention
Deconstructing Beauty -Transformation of the Pallati i Brigadave
Dear citizens of Tirana, At the beginning of the semester we received a letter from the Pallati i Brigadave, who sadly told us about his loneliness and splendid isolation. He feels trapped and powerless to change his condition. After a few conversations with you, we realized that many of you did not know the Palace, or if you did, you did not have an emotional connection with it. We also heard the voices of those who take care of it, which believe that the Palace should be kept as it is. We are convinced that the role of this building has to be rethought in order to start to serve you - the people of this country. Standing empty without serving a purpose to the public is a sad future for the palace. Therefore, we looked for a compromise between keeping the palace protected under a glass bell and opening it completely to the public, we wanted these two expectations to be met. After hearing your stories, we selected the rooms with the most historical and emotional value to stay in their current state, in order to mediate the visitor a narrative and also to reduce the cost of maintenance. The selected rooms and their connection form an instructive path which runs through the building and touches on the history of the Palace, its beauty, as well as its deterioration. In the new voids, which are scattered between the preserved rooms, we filled programs wich you thought should be enhanced in the city. The two realities coexist and overlap, and in both cases one can always catch glimpses of what is happening on the other side. Throughout this transformation we tried to enrich the building and reached a compromise. Through the radical gesture of physically and visually open the palace to the city, you can emotionally (re-)connect to this symbolic building and in addition to give you the opportunity to discover for the first time or rediscover the beauty of the whole Palace. The choices we have made have always tried to respond to your needs as a country as well of those of the city, in all its facets, so that you are a part of the transformation of the Pallati i Brigadave. It is a Palace that has never been a palace, and now it is the time that together we open it to the city and to all those who want to discover its beauty. Sincerely yours, De-constructing Beauty
Deconstructing Beauty
March 20, 2023
Honorable Mention
Solar Neo-Bologna
The city of Calgary has experienced its two largest floods in 2005 and 2013. The two events respectively forced more than 40,000 and 75,000 people to evacuate from their homes, each leaving the city with $75 million and $787 million in infrastructural damages and recoveries. It is hence more critical than ever to leverage architecture and urban design to address some of these recurring challenges and reframe Calgary’s relationship with water.
Ji Song Sun
April 29, 2023
Honorable Mention
The Beirut Lines
With the force of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever occurred on August 4, 2020, 18:08:18 EEST, and it is thought that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate housed in warehouse-12 at the port were the source of the explosion's fuel. In addition to the extensive damage this explosion produced, at least 204 people were killed and 6,500 injured. Above all, Beirut-the capital of Lebanon that was spawned by its harbor as the focal Middle Eastern node point that connected many continents, has been left with a dead Port. For many years, the Beirut port represented more of a barrier than a connection between the city’s communities and its coast. The reconstruction of the port area opens up the opportunity for a pivotal civic gesture that will both catalyse the area and fill the void of active public spaces in the city.
Chee Kin Tan
March 23, 2023
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