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Zain Karsan / Nathalie Bellefleur (Open Category)

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Sudbury 2050 - Urban Design Ideas Competition / Concours d'idées de conception urbaine

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Appropriation of Onsite Railcars

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Modular, Sustainable, CLT construction

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The Bowl

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Urban Farming - The Grove

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Performance

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Planned Developments Underway

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Conference Center

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Sudbury Wolfes Arena

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Hotel

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Casino

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Performing Arts Center

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Low Income Housing

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Luxury Living

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Long Term Care, Assisted Senior Living and Recreational Fields

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Connective Tissue and Integrated Market

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Junction Park

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR


Distinction	Honourable mention
Doc. level	75%

Description

City Making is a conversation. This is especially so in the case of Sudbury, which is at a critical moment in its development with a number of large cultural projects proposed, debated, and currently underway.

Our proposal is a collection of urban gestures to see Sudbury grow into a sustainable, green, culturally rich and diverse downtown core. To support this proposal, we envision an app based discussion board to guide these gestures toward reality. Ideas that gain traction across the app are 3D printed and placed on a physical model available for public view, both online and offline. Community based design iterations form important considerations in shaping the culture of Canada's premier northern town. Thus, the Sudbury of 2050 is conceived through a program of Active Planning and Community Engagement.

We begin the conversation by introducing some gestures, starting with the large and controversial Kingsway Entertainment District. The current downtown core cannot adequately accommodate a large program like that proposed at the Kingsway Entertainment District without expanding. Therefore we propose the relocation of the stadium across the tracks at the site of the Energy Court's Public Parking Lot. A new Hotel and Gaming and Convention Centre, along with an innovative stadium will act as a catalyst for further transformations and expansions of the downtown. Structurally optimized catenary forms, prefabricated CLT modules and Glulam construction in Sudbury's new stadium will galvanize Ontario's construction industry around developing a sustainable vision of Sudbury.

Sustainability is a crucial theme in Sudbury's history, at once a story of extraction and recovery. The city grew out of the environmental ills of early industry and has since become a case study for the possibility of re-greening and natural stewardship. As such it is uniquely poised to lead the way from environmental rehabilitation to environmental partnership and sustainable construction practices. Sudbury has for nearly half a century been a kind of Nature Factory, reconstructing green space through initiatives like the Technical Tree Planting Committee. However, the downtown core currently does not reflect this commitment. There is a noticeable absence of green space, only 3% of the downtown is comprised of parks, which are not highly visible nor easily accessible according to a Master Plan Report prepared in 2012. The re-imagination of the rail-yard presents an opportunity for Sudbury to continue its commitment to environmental sustainability, importing nature and culture to enrich the downtown. The rail lines diverge and the rail-yard transforms into Junction Park, replete with places for entertainment, culture and social gathering, serving the growing downtown population and neighboring residential quarters.

Adaptive reuse is a sustainable strategy for re-imagining the rail-yards and its infrastructure as a node for cultural engagement. Wherever possible, architectural solutions that incorporate pre-existing structures offer a more sustainable way of growing the downtown. The large shed at the centre of the rail-yard becomes a multi-level gallery for First Nations and contemporary artists and sculptors. Defunct rail cars are reused and become public furniture and infrastructure for the museum to display artistic works. The old railway turntable becomes an open air auditorium and bandshell that hosts entertainment throughout the seasons. Open Air Entertainment Venues offer the city a way of charting a post pandemic world by building cultural resilience into public space.

Junction East continues Sudbury's commitment to the arts and culture with the construction of an art gallery and library at the site of the Sudbury Arena. Junction West is planned to host a convention centre, privately operated hotel and performing arts centre to replace the Sudbury Theatre Centre.

The performing arts centre offers an opportunity to animate Brady street. Generous auditorium stairs to support pop-up performances can make Brady Street more pedestrian and help activate neighboring public spaces like Tom Davies Square and Memorial Park. The performing arts centre is double fronted, one end to Brady Street to an outdoor amphitheater at the current Shaughessy Parking Lot. Thus the performing arts centre can support exterior open air performances as well as highly controlled interior performances. A small park surrounding the amphitheater completes the gesture, and supports Sudbury's commitment to sustainable greening of the urban core. The park is enjoyed as a generous out door breakout to the convention centre, and recreation space for the growing population residing in the downtown.

The gesture to produce diverse and active public spaces is one of many in the downtown core, which is filled with areas for strategic infill and development. We propose the systematic elimination of surface lots for mixed use programs wherever possible and the incorporation of parking space into few yet efficient parking structures to free up the downtown to develop robust, welcoming, and safe public space. These gestures are crucial to the commercial, cultural and civic resilience of Sudbury.

A phased pattern of residential densification through infill can support the growth and activity of the downtown population. Green Terracing and Ample Shared space characterize new CLT construction, supporting Sudbury's growing commitment to urban resilience and sustainability. New developments are sculpted to permit maximum winter solar gain, and host vegetation to protect against solar gains in the summer. The formal strategy itself is built upon modules and offers significant variation in form and direction to maintain view corridors, shield harsh winds and minimize shading on neighboring property. Urban farming tied into residential densification offers further means toward a resilient downtown community.

At a regional level, urban gestures aim to reinforce connectivity. There are a variety of extant nature trails scattered and disconnected across the Greater Sudbury Region. Thus a double loop system is proposed to connect these trails together and lead toward the downtown. The Bridge, a connective tissue in Sudbury's urban fabric, is part of phase 4 of the proposal, with the aim to bring regional connectivity into the downtown.

The goal is to grow Sudbury's urban core into a reflection of its commitment to environmental partnership and rehabilitation, of culture and industrial ingenuity. With these gestures and many more from community discussion and partnership, we aim to create Northern Traction.

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Jury Report

Honourable Mention - "Northern Traction"

(Brampton & Kingston ON - Canada)

Zain Karsan, Natalie Bellefleur

"Effortless and engaging public interface by way of a compelling and accessible video and purpose designed app. Step by step, one phase at a time, the design presents a sublime logic for a meaningful reinvention of Sudbury." - Lisa Rochon, Competition Juror and founder of CityLab in Toronto.

(From jury report)

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