Of
the
thesis
entitled: Two
Design
Proposals
Over
and
Under
the
Gardiner
Abstract:
While
the
highway
infrastructure
of
North America
provides
great
benefits
by
connecting
both
urban
and
rural communities,
this
infrastructure
also
comes
with
significant
costs by
separating
and
creating
barriers
between
various communities.
The Sunnyside
beach
area
in
Toronto
is
an
example
of
an
important
public
area isolated
by
the
Gardiner
Expressway
from
the
neighborhoods
of
Swansea,
Sunnyside,
Roncesvalles Village,
and
Parkdale.
This
thesis explores
two
prototype strategies
for
urban
and
architectural
interventions
on
two
sites
in the
Sunnyside
area
by
both
bridging
over
the
Gardiner
Expressway
and
traversing underneath
it,
as
an
approach
that
could
be
applied
in
other key locations
along
arterial
urban
highways.
Implementation of
these
reconnection
strategies
would
provide
an
opportunity
to
add significant
new
activity
programs
in
the
Sunnyside
area.
The
programming
and spatial
character
of
former
recreation
activities
and
facilities
at Sunnyside are
used
within
a
process
of
urban
memory
retrieval
to
organize
the
proposed new
buildings.
Within
the
buildings,
interior
boundaries
-
walls
between
rooms
– are
eliminated
as
static
space
dividers
and
replaced
as
expanded functional space.
In-between Boundaries
offers
a
systematic
perspective
for
analyzing
a
range
of design
scales
for
the
built
environment
from
urban
design
to
site
and
building design
scales
and,
in
so
doing,
proposes
an
enhanced
degree
of
complexity and continuity
in
architectural
design.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
Supervisor:
Committee Members:
John McMinn, University of Waterloo
Val
Rynnimeri,
University
of
Waterloo
Mona
El
Khafif,
University
of Virginia
External Reader:
Drew Sinclair, SvN
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Friday September
16,
2016
9:00AM
ARC
2003
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.