This project was intended to provide a place for artists of various disciplines from around Montreal to work, practice, perform and meet. The program consisted of a ballroom, café, lounge, administration room, mechanical room, dance and music rooms, painting, graphics and craft studios, and an entry which included washrooms and coat-check. The room's floor areas and heights were all given.The site was a vacant property on Sherbrooke Street at Henri-Julien Street, and was to be accessed from the north. What land wasn't taken up by the building was to be designed as a public park, and also allow for an outdoor tarrace for the café.
Before designing, the three member team had to come up with written statements about what their building would eventually become: idea, symbol, organization, building fabric, environment, and usage. The design of the building had to be a result of following these statements, as well as each of the nine systems: services, structure, materials, movement, growth and change, space types, geometry, space and mass, and enclosure. In the pre-design phase, each member of the team was responsible for investigating three of the systems, and became the "pro" on that system for the final building.
My teammates were Marie-Eve Ross and Yulia Nedecheva. The drawings I show here are drawn by myself, unless otherwise noted.