OFFICE DESIGN
Tangled art + Disabilities Project
The new office of Tangled Art + Disability, situated at the Junction triangle community – 1655 Dupont St Toronto, ON, contains three gallery rooms, library, bookstore, archive room, storage room, kitchenette, seminar room, and private studio. The concept of equality, story-telling, and universal accessibility was implemented in the entire project. The office aims to achieve the notion that everyone has accessibility to any space without any barriers. Ramp as the main circulation method in the building connects to the second level. As the ramp goes up, occupants/visitors can access each gallery, and three “floating” boxes – the galleries are elevated from the ground at different height
HOTEL DESIGN
The Annex Hotel
The Annex hotel in the Annex neighborhood of Toronto specifies a loft suite and high ceiling room that is renovated with luxurious finishing and furniture. The Hotel is designed to hold some small events such as holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries. it is not only designed for visitors to feel the neighborhood culture but for locals to spend a special night at the hotel to celebrate events. The double-height ceiling design is to emphasis the vertical space to create a special staying experience. Different ceiling height adds playfulness to the hotel and amplify the joyfulness atmosphere of events.
RETAIL DESIGN
A Store - pop up shop
The Annex hotel in the Annex neighborhood of Toronto specifies a loft suite and high ceiling room that is renovated with luxurious finishing and furniture. The Hotel is designed to hold some small events such as holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries. it is not only designed for visitors to feel the neighborhood culture but for locals to spend a special night at the hotel to celebrates events. The double-height ceiling design is to emphasis the vertical space to create a special staying experience. Different ceiling height adds playfulness to the hotel and amplifies the joyfulness atmosphere of events.
RESIDENTIAL DESIGN
Laneway house - Cabbagetown
The house for a single art gallery owner in the Cabbage town neighborhood of Toronto specifies a one-bedroom home that embeds Asian culture in the house. To incorporate the Victorian architecture style, cladding in pale concrete masonry and red bricks cooperatively form the facade of the house to not only indicate the beauty of the combination in terms of color and material but also establish the connection to the neighborhood. The upside-down "L" shape exterior space allows the owner to enter the house from west and south. A 52" diameter circle skylight above the middle of the exterior space between two entrances brings natural light into the patio. The house is divided into three different function zones that are connected by the second floor to establish an integral interior space.
The tearoom on the main floor provides the owner with a peaceful and private environment to have tea and meditate. The main floor has a tearoom/ office, kitchen, and living room giving the owner easy access to entertaining space, and the upper floor is designed to create a relatively
quiet and private space, and thus the bedroom is located on the south-east corner of the room to eliminate the noise from the laneway. Facilitating further engagement with the outdoors is a large south-facing terrace adjacent to the reading area where is eequipped with a long console table.
The house offers an engaging experience of discovery and a sense of Zen through both the interior and exterior. Merging the traditional element into new technology and combining western and eastern culture create an infinite possibility.
Location: Toronto
Size: 977 sf
RENOVATION PROJECT
Ryerson Interior school thrid floor - Movie Lounge
The movie lounge located in studio 319 provides SID students and faculties a space to not only enjoy movies/videos but own a featured room to conduct different events. To create a dialogue between SID norms and the movie lounge, the space can be potentially used as a classroom, seminar room, or study room, satisfying SID students' various needs. Each row of seating is elevated to ensure users to be able to watch movies/videos/presentations clearly without blocking/interrupting other users' visual fields. An L-shaped bar table is mounted at the east end wall to establish a study/workspace. The high leg chairs also provide occupants another elevated space to watch movies without any visual blocks. Acoustic ceiling tiles and walls are installed in the space to maximally prevent sound transmission from the movie lounge to other classrooms. Additionally, recessed ceiling pot lights are generally used as ambient light in the space, where accent lights are also recessed at the edge of each thread to prevent tripping hazards, especially for the low vision group. Table lamps are placed on the bar table purposely to act as a task light to provide enough luminance for study and different activities. another universal accessibility notion can be observed from the first row of the seating area - removable chairs provide wheelchair users a space to enjoy movies. Extra speakers are mounted on the east-side columns to offer an immersive viewing experience.
