Project: The Lower Donlands
Area: 125 hectare (308 acre)
Note: Waterfront Toronto plans to transform the largely underutilized industrial area into new sustainable parks and communities. The naturalization and shifting of the mouth of the Don River is the centerpiece of the plans for the Lower Don Lands.
Output: Our project was a document that explores three design scenarios. Form defining rules were created and pulled from cities around the world to be applied and tested for how well they create a vibrant urban realm.
Status: Under Construction
My Role: Formulating and refining the ‘urban rules motivation, focus and type that governed constraints’ throughout the different scenarios. Construction of scaled site model to identify potential block density levels Base drawings and perspective renderings of th
Additional Credits: CMU / Masters of Urban Design / Summer studio / 2010
Project team: Professor Jonathan Kline, Ian Myles Newborn, Akanksha Chopra, Lance Claiborne, Cai Zhou, Pin Gao
(Sketchup, Rhino, Ecotech, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign)
