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!
ED3 Interior Environments Studio 3.2
Instructor: Kurt Espersen-Peters
Poet Laurette Office and Residence
Robyn Anderson
Adapt the existing River Heights Library building into a Poet Residence with an office for Winnipeg’s Poet Laurette. Using time as a general design concept, students were required to develop a design solution. Students were asked to include a signature space of Café, Archive Library and/ or Reading/Lecture Room.
A Poet’s Residence
Sean Hewlett
This semesters studio project was to design a residency for the Poet Laureate of Winnipeg at 1520 Corydon Avenue: formerly the River Heights Library. The design was to include an office for the Poet Laureate, a reception area and a private suite for visiting authors and poets.
Additionally, we were asked to include either a café with seating for 30, a library/archive for poetic works or a reading/lecture hall. I chose to include both the café and the library in my designs as well as make use of the green space in the rear of the site. The exterior space now has a private entrance to the below-ground suite, outdoor seating for reading/contemplation and a garden to grow fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables to be used in the café.
The concept we were tasked with applying to the design was Time. I decided to focus on the concept that all time exists in one instant, and it is only our perception that passes through moment to moment. This is brought forth in the design by forced perspective approach. Triangular windows on the exterior direct your point of view, rather than allow for sweeping vistas. Openings in walls create small viewports into day to day scenes much like our perception of time splits our days into smaller, manageable vignettes.
A Poet’s Residence
Carmen Huang
To be a space that triggers episodic memories, particularly to engage and remember memories that bring joy, that are positive rather than negative memories. The Poet’s resident and café is meant to feel whimsical, and allow for new memories to form, while the possibility of old memories to come in whisps.
[DE] teriorate
Chukwuebuka Stephen Idafum
This project intended to develop a design solution in response to the intrinsic relationship between poetry and time. The aspect of time which was explored was its deterioration/decay as one transcends from one phase of the structure to the other. The translation of time decay regarding the poetic gesture to an actual built form is the essence of the Poet’s residence in its entirety.