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!
Re-Creation: Architecturing the City
An Interdisciplinary Studio in Architecture and Urban Design
Instructors: Carlos Rueda, Alden Neufeld & Richard Milgrom
In the context of our design studio, Re-Creation is an open concept which admits multiple interpretations and encompasses relevant meanings:
From a theoretical perspective, Re-Creation refers to the generative process of the project as an act, or set of actions, rooted in tradition but creatively open to poetic transformation, and metaphoric amalgamation, or metamorphosis. It means as well to design based on knowledge, memory and experience, since we cannot re-create what we do not know. Re-creation therefore challenges common assumptions about originality, and is at the core of what we call creative action.
In terms of urban design, re-creation indicates a continuous process of city making which is informed by pre-existences: meaningful traces and latencies, memories, experiences (poetic imagery) coming from the site and its immediacies, but also from remote, metaphorically brought or translated, relevant other places and experiential images.
296 Broadway
Patricia Buen
Situated on the corner of Broadway @ Donald in Downtown Winnipeg, 296 Broadway is a ten-story high mixed-used infill. Featuring multi functional commercial and office spaces on the first two levels, and a residential tower that holds 60 units, the project aims to inject a sense of life and excitement into the neighborhood, transforming a highly commercialized and vehicle-centric street into a more varied, livable, and pedestrian-friendly quarter.
Hargrave Building
Braden Goodall
A seven-story commercial and residential infill project in downtown Winnipeg. Part of the development of a plaza along Hargrave Street behind the Workers Compensation Board building on Broadway. Exploring the way people can interact with the street during varying times of day and different seasons. Focussing on light and community within the space and residential floors and reacting to the future presence of the urban context.
71 Donald Mixed Use
Kenny Li
The building accommodates 40 housing units including 30 affordable units and 10 luxurious units at upper floors. There are 9 story of office space. Ground floor and second floor are mainly retail, cafe and public space.
The cafe patio on the second floor is oriented toward southwest, visually linking the other signature building across the street. Above is a green terrace on third floor.
The double-height public space underneath the offices features seating areas and could be used for temporal exhibitions that celebrates cultural diversity.
The angled sawtooth facade is a gesture that responds to the maximized sunlight from south and southwest, and also providing the visual connection with the pocket park along Donald.
Also part of Re-Creation: Breanna Baydock, Jeramee Fajardo, Irena Tonnu, Serena Tonnu, Yan Wu