NOSOA: Making Connections
A school of Architecture should not only instruct students how to better a social environment through built structures, but should also successfully improve the function of its context within society. In the case of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, this school should both unify the pieces of downtown into a more successful business and social district, and create new spaces for instruction and interaction. It must be a center that provides for future development and promotes multiple uses.
The design proposal not only proposes the new School of Architecture, but also makes provision for additional urban infill. In order to address the fragmented nature of the city and its relation to the railroad, several parking garages with green roofs and walls will act as a buffer between the rail and the southern side of downtown, as well as taking the pressure of parking off of land use and allow for urban re-greening. A new satellite development for multi-family housing is also proposed to the southwest. The School of Architecture acts as a connector to join the eastern and western portions of downtown Sudbury. A new public park and green-roofed parking garage act as a buffer between the rail yard and the new campus development, which makes provision for future schools of the visual and performing arts, retail, dormitories, and a new art museum. Additional infrastructure including streets, a traffic circle to regulate thru traffic, a pedestrian bridge across the rail, and a new parking garage by the farmers' market are included in the proposal for the school.
The school itself has a continuous façade to the south that acts as a unifying element for the school itself, a solar regulator, and additional visual buffer to the rail yard further south. Upon entering the main entrance from Lorne Street, one first encounters the reception center in front of the administrative offices and the library lobby to the right. The double and triple height spaces along the southern facade unify the spaces, and uses of the school. The computer labs and offices are on the other side of the administration offices and are easily accessible from the south entrance of the building. At the opposite end of the building, the faculty offices, along with faculty display space, have their own secondary lobby that responds directly to the lobby of the auditorium and gallery in the next building. Open studios separated in two groupings to allow for dual language instructing, but in free-plan organization that will promote collaboration and integration of curriculum between different studio groups. The graduate offices and resources are located on the third floor of the main building, and the manufacturing facilities (along with shipping and receiving) are located across the courtyard alongside proposed retail units. Adequately protected from sound and visual intrusion from the nearby rails, the interior courtyard of the campus is a serene public space that will accommodate the social needs presented bya prestigious school(s), student life, and the public use of Greater Sudbury as a whole.
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