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Quadrangle + aLLDesign + Janet Rosenberg

Finalist

Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and Harbour Square Park / Gare maritime Jack Layton et parc Harbour Square

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Ferry Terminal and Service Building - Ground Plane

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Pool and Terrace

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Ferry Terminal and Service Building - Second Level Café

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Cafe Mezzanine - Option 1

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Service Building, Waiting- Warming - Cooling Pod and Ferry Terminal Building

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Swimming Pool and Elevated Walkway

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B North-South Looking West

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C Through the Dunes

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A Day in the Life of Island Visitors

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A Day in the Life Island Residents

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A Day in the Life Island School Students

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A Day in the Life Ferry Terminal Workforce

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A Day in the Life Condo Residents

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A Day in the Life Island School Students 01

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A Day in the Life Terminal Workforce 01

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A Day in the Life Ferry Terminal Workforce 02

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A Day in the Life Ferry Terminal Workforce 03

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GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITOR

Competitor	Janet Rosenberg & Studio
	www.jrala.ca

	Quadrangle Architects Limited
	www.quadrangle.ca

	aLLDesign
	all.design/


Distinction	Finalist
Doc. level	75%

Description

The imperative supporting this competition of ideas seeks to promote outstanding park design and architecture and reflect the needs and aspirations of the park and ferry users, while also building upon the larger revitalization effort of the Central Waterfront and Queens Quay Boulevard towards the greater good of the public. Christopher Hume quotes Janet Rosenberg saying "You want to make the city look as though it's loved . . . If we want a beautiful city, we have to stop thinking of things in isolation". The competitor's stated objectives challenge the abilities of a diverse and complementary team of designers to avoid preconceptions in the process of shaping the energies - connections between movement and material, history and emotion - that are defined by the ferry terminal in its physical relationship with the city and the Toronto Islands at large as well as to modulate and connect with those defined by the waterfront in particular. Waves of transition in our society reflect on the waves of immigration and the transitions experienced for New Canadians in staking out new futures in this country. The combination of the ecology and the cultural significance of the Toronto Islands on life in Canada make for a strong contemporary statement for landscape architecture to be expressive not only of a biological ecology but what we may refer to as a "cultural ecology". The metaphor of the beacon and light beam as key image for the ferry terminal then becomes even stronger. As for early mariners, this guiding light is raised. In our vision, it takes the form of a horizontal datum - a bar building - that liberates the ground to privilege the panoramic view between Bay Street and the ferry ride.

We propose that the anticipation of the ferry begins at Bay Street with movement across a landform of refracting wavefronts, simulating not only the pattern, but the rise and fall experienced in the water at the shoreline. One should imagine the pattern as allowing for a gentle rise and fall in the topography, just as the fog horn of the ferry boat that announces to all travelers the signature pattern of sound waves in the call to board. At the same time, areas of more discrete separation in grade, and in the differentiation of materials, will identify locations of high traffic and those of rest and repose. The materials come to represent a shaping of the energies that define the integration of a ferry terminal and a park: the park as a ferry terminal, the terminal as a park. They combine to become an active park with the singular mission of making the voyage a positive experience. Under a tall canopy that makes a forest out of the Queens Quay streetscape, the view to the Islands is now at hand with the removal of the tunnel road and bulkhead. From here, a gradient in the placement of the trees transitions to coastal species as one approaches the "ecological" zone that mimics the coastal dune conditions of the Toronto Island beach. Intrinsic to the terminal, an elevated walkway takes one out across this shoreline buffer and above the water, enabling the waves from family members on the departure or arrival.

We have taken one step back to go many forward by re-introducing (from the era of the second terminal, 1918-1972, located at Bay and Queens Quay) the concept of a waiting room, conceived now as innovative and varied "street creatures" with heated areas for the winter months and conditioned in the summer, along with the bar (real and juice) in the elevated bar building, thereby making the waiting comfortable. A new more inconspicuous surface road, will benefit Island students with a drop-off area, while continuing to provide the condominium owners with the necessary means of egress beyond York Slip. Above all, the details in our proposal are for a ferry terminal and park that are united in meeting the imperative to make this design for the twenty-first century one that works! One will sense a vibe that reflects the idealism Jack Layton saw in our society for democracy, education and intelligence, and fun.

We propose that the anticipation of the ferry begins at Bay Street with movement across a landform of refracting wavefronts, simulating not only the pattern, but the rise and fall experienced in the water at the shoreline. One should imagine the pattern as allowing for a gentle rise and fall in the topography, just as the fog horn of the ferry boat that announces to all travelers the signature pattern of sound waves in the call to board. At the same time, areas of more discrete separation in grade, and in the differentiation of materials, will identify locations of high traffic and those of rest and repose. The materials come to represent a shaping of the energies that define the integration of a ferry terminal and a park: the park as a ferry terminal, the terminal as a park. They combine to become an active park with the singular mission of making the voyage a positive experience. Under a tall canopy that makes a forest out of the Queens Quay streetscape, the view to the Islands is now at hand with the removal of the tunnel road and bulkhead. From here, a gradient in the placement of the trees transitions to coastal species as one approaches the "ecological" zone that mimics the coastal dune conditions of the Toronto Island beach. Intrinsic to the terminal, an elevated walkway takes one out across this shoreline buffer and above the water, enabling the waves from family members on the departure or arrival.

We have taken one step back to go many forward by re-introducing (from the era of the second terminal, 1918-1972, located at Bay and Queens Quay) the concept of a waiting room, conceived now as innovative and varied "street creatures" with heated areas for the winter months and conditioned in the summer, along with the bar (real and juice) in the elevated bar building, thereby making the waiting comfortable. A new more inconspicuous surface road, will benefit Island students with a drop-off area, while continuing to provide the condominium owners with the necessary means of egress beyond York Slip. Above all, the details in our proposal are for a ferry terminal and park that are united in meeting the imperative to make this design for the twenty-first century one that works! One will sense a vibe that reflects the idealism Jack Layton saw in our society for democracy, education and intelligence, and fun.

(From competition documentation)

Jury Report

This submission was seen by the Jury to be full of colour with a playfulness that was admired. The design relies on many objects to make the Harbour Ferry Square precinct. The design is not about forming space either in the park landscape or in the Terminal and, as a consequence, was felt to be cluttered with objects lacking a landscape coherence commensurate with the 7-acre scale of the precinct cohesion. The elevated walkway was admired as a viewing platform. However, the limitation of only two or three points of access down to ground along its considerable length was seen as a bit of a trap.
The enormous scale of the geese [L'umbrellas] was noticed and appreciated.

(From jury report)

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