Ryerson Holds Architectural Design Competition

A design competition to make creative architectural interventions for public engagement

-Pavilions, viewing platforms, and amphitheatres to engage people with the water,

-reintroduction of native flora and fauna to repair eroding riverbanks and remediate water quality,

-green technologies to heat up hot springs in the winter and clean water for swimming and wading in the summer,

-vertical living walls, gazebos with waterfalls that freeze in winter to create a windscreen, and piers that measure seasonal water levels with perforations permitting wind flow creating musical wind chimes.

Event Schedule

Speaker Schedule

11:00	George Kapleos	Chair	Associate Professor, Department of Architecture
11:03	Lynda McCarthy	Moderator	Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biology
11:08	Lisa Prime	Waterfront Toronto	Director, Environment and Innovation, Waterfront Toronto
11:20	Nina-Marie Lister	Urban Planning	Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Community Services
11:30	Joy Charbonneau	Arcitecture & Artistry	Architect and Artist
11:40	Tom Kaszas	MOECC	Environmental Innovations Branch, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
11:50	Irene Hassass	Aslan Technologies	Director, Strategic Planning and Partnerships, Aslan Technologies
12:00	Ludiwine Clouzot	Educator	President, Ecoloodi
12:10	Eric Meliton	Partners in Project Green	Project Manager, Water Stewardship, Partners in Project Green
12:20	Cyndy Baskin	Aboriginal Relationship	Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Faculty of Community Services
12:30	Lynda McCarthy	Pollution	Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biology

Each year the Department of Architecture hosts a Design Competition during the New Year. George Kapelos is the architect of this brilliant experiential learning program that places first year students alongside 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^thyear students to collaboratively design an intervention that speaks to a socially enigmatic issue.

The Architectural Design Competition theme was WATER in 2016.

To fully inform the students, the Department of Architecture sought the collaboration of Urban Water TMU. Urban Water TMU delivered a roster of water experts to speak about urban development, innovations in water technologies, sustainable urban planning, human engagement with water from the aboriginal point of view and artistic expressions around water.

Four-hundred students learned about water during the week long program and were inspired by photographs taken by Steven Evans along the banks of the Thames River in southwestern Ontario (2001).

Students designed architectural interventions along the river’s edge to invite the public to consider the importance and meaning of water, allow people to gather, contemplate and engage with water.

The designs were displayed in the Paul H. Cocker Gallery at Toronto Metropolitan University alongside photographs by Steven Evans of the Thames watershed from Jan 15-22, 2016.