Intertwined
One city, one new architecture school, three communities to be part of.
An architecture school should reflect the ambition and inspiration of a student and therefore studio environment should emphasize such an inspiring space. Primarily, it's a space that stimulates the community, a subject of exploration that reformulates new ideas, a building that shows to the public the art produced beyond the walls. In a world where art is omnipresent, Sudbury needs to get involved into the contemporary world. A new icon with regards to new trend will allow the city to reach the international architectural world. The building's purpose is to provoke new sensations on the viewer by linking the pedestrian to the edifice. In fact, it offers exterior public spaces as well as a continuous and intimate relationship with the city, turning itself into an exhibition for the society. Although the new architecture school is created for the students, it provides spaces for the city engaging the entire community.
The school is conceived as a symbiosis of urbanity and student life promoting attractions other than the school premises. This project attempts to enhance the downtown by expanding and turning it into entertainment center for the community, thereby ensuring new quality of urban life. Therefore, the new school will become a catalyst to revitalize the inner-city environment by supporting technology, innovation and architectural design. The school turns out to be itself an incubator of local trade and tourism by creating an active, dynamic and unique atmosphere. In addition, the duality between the building and the newly exterior space will ensure an immense proliferation of art and culture in Northern Ontario.
During the time, the Algonquians have created multiple artistic objects using the birch as a principal material. Due to its malleability and flexibility, while wet they use mostly all the bark from the paper birch to do some craftwork creating diverse shapes as braids. For us, this indispensable material used in products by the aborigines becomes then, an item of exploration. The birch is multiple layers that centers from the heart to perform the renovation of the tree. Inspired by how the birch works, the new school is characterized by the interaction of three layers or volumes that regenerate the old school of Canadian architecture. Moreover, these three bands of different materials are detected by their plasticity as Aborigines worked the birch. Weaving into a braid form, they symbolize the interplay of three different communities that have participated in the construction of the city. Through this dynamic game, the new school mixes these communities in one place creating magnificent spaces, which involve: the Algonquians, the English Canadian and the French Canadian. Indeed, the cross linking of the three bands combined more a work of public exterior space, which will become an inspiring and convivial ensemble between students and urban life.
Finally, the design of the new architecture school of Sudbury merges history, authentic traditional craftwork and contemporary technology, to create a new national monument appearing local and universal, contemporary and timeless, unique and archetypal at the same time.
(Competitor's text)
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