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Competitor - winner

Paul A. Grant

Special Merit Award

Concours national de modèles d'habitation 1979 (Vancouver) / National Housing Design competition 1979 (Vancouver)

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typical floor level 1

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C

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typical unit - 4 bedrooms

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typical unit - 3 bedrooms (2)

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typical unit - 3 bedrooms (1)

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typical unit - 2 bedrooms

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typical unit - 1 bedroom

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typical floor level 4

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typical floor level 3

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typical floor level 2

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vehicular circulation

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pedestrian circulation

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environmental buffer

Conceptual Diagram

concept

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climatic analysis

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amenity space

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site

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Manager	Paul A. Grant
Team	Paul A. Grant
	Douglas Sinclair

Distinction	Special Merit Award
Doc. level	75%

Description

Statements
1. passive energy based on unit orientation and unit mass
2. a sense of community has been created at all scales
3. spatial hierarchy: solar street, public cluster court and street, semi-private unit courtyard, private
4. ordered pedestrian circulation
5. segregated vehicle and pedestrian networks with ability to park vehicle in proximity to unit
6. solar street affords east-west pedestrian movement through site to shopping centre and park
7. individual unit identity
8. different types of easily supervised children's play spaces
9. handicapped access provision is a site planning feature
10. use of out and fill to create massing that affords maximum solar benefit and provide noise barrier
11. coniferous and deciduous trees to provide buffer and shading

(From competitor's text)

Jury Report

The fundamental characteristic of this scheme which attracted the jury to it, was the explicitness of the architectural idea. The series of clustered groupings of terraces, ail organized around a major landscaped open space cutting across the site from east to west, struck the jury as the strongest idea evident in any of the schemes submitted in the B.C. Region.
Not only did the jury find the idea explicit; they also judged that it interrelated many aspects of the design of the scheme as a whole. Access (by elevator) from underground parking, orientation (ail units facing south with outdoor living terraces to the south), clustering of units into groupings and views to the collective landscaped open space, were ail related to the basic idea of the scheme.
Reservations were expressed by the jury about three aspects of the scheme. First, light conditions on the back of the terraced groupings, where the setbacks generated deep overhangs. These overhangs, some jurors felt, would create unpleasantly dark spaces underneath.
Second, the terracing System adopted resulted in overlook from access stairs of some units onto the outdoor living areas of other units. Finally, jurors were concerned about the high cost of the extensive infrastructure Systems the scheme depended on. Concerns were also expressed regarding the lack of a second means of egress from many of the units on the upper levels.
Ail in ail, the jury concluded that the strength of the basic idea in Submission 10 outweighed these various limitations of the design.

(From jury report)

List of accessible documents

29 scanned / 24 viewable

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