READING PAVILION, HUMBER LAKESHORE CAMPUS
The project team designed and built an interactive campus installation to be on display for Culture Days. Using an open and flexible curriculum, the local community had an opportunity to engage in our design process. The installation is intended as a tactile expression of a bottom-up campus where students have the possibility of recreating their spaces, taking over marginal spaces, and turning them into learning and social spaces. Working with the design legacy of the Lakeshore Campus, in a Palladian mode after the University of Virginia, our intervention is an eccentric move that disrupts the simple axial circulation, allowing access to the central courtyard from a marginal space, and diagonally pointing towards the campus centre. Using the Japanese cedar charring technique Shou Sugi Ban (焼杉板) allowed us to add a layer of patina and craft to the project, as well as exploring the qualities of hidden campus spaces that act like meditative shadows away from the spotlights on campus. As a de-programmed space of circulation and gathering, students were able to appropriate the space while allowing design and construction processes to overlap, in the improvised construction of full-scale mock-ups.
Project Team: Marcin Kedzior, Craig Crane, Hilary Bonnell, Joshua Sam-Cato, Josh Silver, Karly Cable, Nicole Fedorchuk, Rami Dawood, Robbie Tarakji, Saksham Sharma, Tings Chak, Victoria Cardoso