We are pleased to announce YEE-O 2020 – Year End Exhibition – Online edition for this 2019-2020 academic year. This annual event celebrates the hard work and creative achievements of over 500 undergraduate and graduate students from every unit and level in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. Unfortunately, COVID-19 led to the cancellation of this in-person event, but sharing and celebrating student achievements must go on!
Studio Biblio
Instructors: Lisa Landrum & Ted Landrum
The ideal library symbolizes everything a society stands for. – Alberto Manguel
Studio Biblio explored the regenerative architecture of public libraries, and the vital practices of reading, reading places and reading life and forms of the city. Libraries are living archives of shared knowledge and imagination, and crucial catalysts for fostering personal growth and community well-being. Through research and design, the future architects of Studio Biblio have devised a variety of mixed-use multi-story libraries with diverse strategies for public engagement.
If architecture provides anything at all, it is a platform for enquiry. – Douglas Darden
Market Junction Library
Alex Bartmanovich
A social infrastructure hub on the corner where Albert and Arthur Street meet Bannatyne Avenue in Winnipeg’s Old Market Square. Market Junction Library enhances the area’s social infrastructure providing access to learning, technology, and social development services. Its open pedestrian corner, elevated light-filled reading rooms, and generous rooftop also serve as public theatres to stage and view civic festivities and everyday events. It is a place to read books and the city.
Nexus Library
Apoorv Chopra
Situated at the juncture of the Red River and the East Exchange District, the Nexus Library mixes library and co- working programs and links essential nodes of urban, natural and social engagement. At street level, transparency provokes dialogue between the inside and the outside. The building’s vertical movement- with its Red Ribbon stair- provides dynamic spaces of interaction, relaxation and sensation with opportunities to gain and share knowledge and discover new views of the city fabric.
Neeginan Place
Bianca Dahlman
Neeeginan, Cree for ‘Our Place’, honours Indigenous development visions for downtown Winnipeg. Located in the Exchange District, the project is a mixed-use building dedicated to library services, multi-family housing, and hostel accommodations. Shared spaces between library and housing programming include a community kitchen and a multi-purpose penthouse for pow-wow, drumming, making, feasting, story-telling, and more. Neeginan Place seeks to build relationships between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Winnipeggers.
Paradox
Hasti Fakouri
Paradox Gallery & Library occupies a curious corner of Winnipeg’s Exchange District. The new building preserves the most charming features of the site’s former Antique Shop—with its large glass windows and heavily painted masonry evocative of a ruin—while incorporating a multi-media library, cinema, gardens and galleries. Its design and collection celebrate the combination of old and new, heavy and light, fast and slow, and many other contrasts wrapped up in the urban narratives we share.
Market Avenue Library of the Performing Arts
Brendan Klassen
MALPA is a proposed library that is intended to support and enrich the development of Winnipeg’s strong performing arts culture. Through consideration of the heritage of the site, the legacy of the library, and the traditional craft that is performance, the library interprets architectural gestures to create spaces where one can read, write, listen, and engage with numerous forms of theory, media and literature. The library provides the community with a cafe, and auditorium, a bookshop, general archives, reading spaces, media rooms, and outdoor spaces for gather which are intended to work together to encourage a myriad of educational engagement and discourse.
Studio Biblio
Qiwen Lu
For the library, I think people not just read in the library. Some people sit by the wall, climb up the tree, or lie on the grass. People read in the city, read in your life. In order to achieve the concept: reading in the city. I design the library from two aspects. First is about the features of the city. There are people, plants, vehicles and other different elements in the city. City has an abundance of elements. When you stand in any corner of the city, you can have a broad vision and see all the elements. Second is to increase the interaction between people in the library and the outside.
Magic Lantern
Ritam Niyogi
The Magic Lantern Library merges a community library, grocery store and street-side market place – all wrapped with a colorful illuminated envelope – to spark the curiosity of the community and activate the street edges, while providing much-needed amenities in the area.
Surrounded by theatres, concert halls and historic buildings, the Magic Lantern’s innovative façade performs as a glowing screen and spectacle in the East Exchange District. Above the shops, the upper library has diverse study spaces. At night, when the streets are quiet, the study spaces glow with readers’ curiosity.
Bamboo Book Forest
Chenqu Zhao
Inspired by bamboo wooden slips, a traditional Chinese writing media before the use the paper, this library offers interactive ways to experience the written word. While absorbing knowledge and finding identity, people can wander through the Bamboo Book Forest and feel the materials, which are smooth and fluent and full of logic and imagination. The landscape around the library provides more leisurely public space connected to river trails and community.
Also part of Studio Biblio: Alan Vamos