Project Architect

CLIENT:    BGIS (PM), PSPC (client)

Gatineau, Quebec   .   2,600,000 SF   .   Completion 2026

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Designed by Dimitri Dimakopolous, PDPIII is a massive government office complex that transformed downtown Hull in the 1970s. Comprised of six towers and an atrium, the complex occupies an entire city block and spans a major throughfare in the City of Gatineau. Perkins&Will and Provencher Roy where retained to replace the building envelope, upgrade the building services, transform the landscape and interior public realm, and increase the the number of workstations by 50% to approximately 6500.

The project employed approximately thirty JV architectural staff and the size and complexity demanded that the work be split between four project teams. My public space team was charged with transforming the public concourse and entry sequence, which was elevated two stories above grade in the orginal scheme. Our proposal linked the concourse to grade via the existing atrium and an new "Grand Passage" which cut a swath through the building, connecting the two entrances.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Development of public space design and documents, including renderings, costing and construction drawings
- Developed overall documentation strategy in conjunction with 4 project architects
- Direction of four junior staff, with regular direction of larger PW team of approx fifteen staff and larger JV team
- Consultant coordination lead for public space (struct, mech, elect, accessibility, code)
- Virtual client presentations of planning, design and documentation progress
- Product research, specification development

Senior Architect

CLIENT:    Town of Georgina

Kewsick, Ontario   .   TBC SF   .   Completion 2022

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Multi-use recreation centre, including gymnasium, library, pool and multi-purpose rooms

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Quality control reviews of construction drawings - Envelope detailing for construction
- Product research and specification development
- Code compliance and check set reviews

Senior Architect

CLIENT:    Galleria (developer), City of Toronto (user)

Toronto, Ontario   .   308,925 SF   .   Completion 2022

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Multi-use recreation centre, including gymnasium, pool and multi-purpose rooms, daycare, outdoor skating rink and auxilliary skate change and zamboni building. The project was one of a number of pilot projects won by PW in which the City partnered with a developer to build recreation centres. I came onto the project during construction documents to detail the enveolope and direct some of the consultant coordination.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Envelope and interiors development and detailing for construction
- Product research and specification development
- Consultant coordination (struct, mech, elect, envelope)

Project Architect/Project Manager

CLIENT:    Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario   .   TBC SF   .   Completion 2024

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
An expansion and renovation to a late brutalist structure on Queen's stallite campus, occupied by the Faculty of Education. The building was nearing the end of its lifespan and many of it's systems were failing. Programmatically, the collaborative and convivial culture of the school was fighting against an insular and innapropriate space planning. Our role was develop a plan for redevelopment that arranged classrooms and offices around central common spaces and allowed for phased upgrade of the building systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Feasibility study and schematic design
- Direction of production team of two staff
- Work planning and budget tracking
- Feasibility report writing and review - Client presentations, planning meetings, user group consultations, task tracking
- Early energy modelling coordination and scope clarifications
- Consultant coordination (struct, mech, elect, civil, energy, landscape, code)

Senior Architect

CLIENT:    York University

Toronto, Ontario   .   97,000 SF   .   Completion 2022

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
A six-storey classroom building, defined on the exterior by it's twisting form and triangulated facade, and on the interior by a series of feature stairs. I was primarily responsible for detailing the feature stairs and related coordination, and determining the complicated code compliance strategy for the limiting distance relative to the adjacent building.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Interior feature stairs detailing for costing and construction
- Product research and specification development
- Consultant coordination (struct, mech, civil, code)

Project Architect

CLIENT:    Trent University

Peterborough, Ontario   .   80,000 SF   .   Completion 2018

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Revitalization of Ron Thom's reverred 1967 library at Trent University, including reconfiguration of interior planning to include group study, teaching and spaces and significant reduction in the size of the print collection. Interventions included restoration of heritage wood ceilings, millwork and furniture and extensive upgrades to mechanical, electrical and fire protection systems

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Development of design and construction documents, directing up to three team members
- Primary client contact (presentations, planning meetings, user group consultations, donor presentations)
- Consultant coordination lead (struct, mech, elect, lighting, code, hardware, heritage)
- Product research and specification development
- Construction administration lead (site and office)

Project Architect

CLIENT:    Pinnacle (developer), City of Toronto (user)

Toronto, Ontario   .   TBC SF   .   Completion 2022

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Multi-use recreation centre, including gymnasium, pool and multi-purpose rooms, all located on the second storey of a condo development next to the Toronto Star building at Toronto's waterfront. The project was one of a number of pilot projects won by PW in which the City partnered with a developer to build recreation centres. I was involved in early DD and late CDs and construction, both times as project architect.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Development of design and construction documents, directing up to two team members
- Consultant coordination lead (struct, mech, elect, lighting, code, hardware)
- Developer and client presentations and planning meetings
- Product research, specification development

Intermediate Architect

CLIENT:    Western University

London, Ontario   .   100,000 SF   .   Completion 2018

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
A four storey engineering building that expanded upon an existing collegial gothic-oriented building from the 1950s that exemplified much of the Western campus. Our design created a atrium between new and existing and re-interpreted the collegial gothic language using contempory materials of stone, copper ACM panels, fritted glass solar fins and electochromatic glazing. My role was to detail this envelope and perform related coordination. The project attained LEED platinum certification.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Envelope detailing for construction
- Product research and specification development
- Consultant coordination (struct)
- Energy modelling coordination

Project Architect

CLIENT:    Ryerson University

Toronto, Ontario   .   270,000 SF   .   Completion Jan 2019

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
A massive twenty-seven storey building consisting of an eight-storey academic podium beneath an eighteen-storey student residence tower, with three levels of underground parking and a basement fabrication lab. PW Toronto was responsbile for the podium and basement while PW Vancouver was responsible for the tower. The podium building was designed around a series of cascading atriums and feature stairs that worked their way up a green roof on the eight floor. Above this floated a 1.8m thick concrete transfer slab, upon which sat the tower above.

After some early DD stage work, returned in early CDs to take over the Project Architect role from a colleague. I was tasked with re-organizing the team, simplifying documentation, taking control of and restructuring the consultant coordination, reviewing check-sets, and issuing multiple tender packages under a CCDC 5B contract.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Early stage public space planning, code review, envelope research, mech systems coordination
- Prepartion of construction documents, directing a team of up to seven support staff
- Coordination of podium-tower interface with Vancouver office
- Consultant coordination lead (struct, mech, elect, lighting, civil, code)
- Coordination of work with construction manager
- Product research and specification development

Project Architect

CLIENT:    University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario   .   200,000 SF   .   Completion 2018

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
An eight-storey expansion to the Engineering 5 building completed five years previously by PW, Engineering 7 duplicated the bar building form of Engineering 5 and created a soaring atrium between the two that has become the social heart of the faculty of engineering on campus. The atrium mediates between level changes between the two buildings and places a feature stair and large social and event space a the crux of the transition. Bridges connect the two buildings at every level at the north, mid-point and south of the atrium and vierendeel trusses create a sawtooth roof form the moderates the amount of light entering the building. Programmatically, the building contained speciality labs, lecture halls and a robotics lab and we showcased as a two-storey space adjacent to the atrium.

I was Project Architect from early in design development to end of tender, doing most of the space planning, team task planning and consultant coordination.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Programme development with client and space planning
- Client and user group presentations
- Direction of a team of up to four production staff from DD to tender
- Consultant coordination lead (struct, mech, elect, lighting, civil, code, cost)
- Preparation and review of DD costing documents and review of estimate
- Preparation and review of CD costing, tender and IFC documents
- Product research and specification development

Job Captain

CLIENT:    Seventh Generation Midwives

Toronto, Ontario   .   12,000 SF   .   Completion Jan 2014

The first clinic of it's kind in Toronto, the Birth Centre is run entirely by midwives. The centre handles low-risk births and offers expectant mothers a welcoming small-scale environment that couples the comforts of a home-birth with the services of a healthcare facility. Our clients were adament that the design of the centre should reflect a view of birth as a natural process, supported by caring midwives, and not as a medical procedure. This led us to a re-conception of a birth suite, one that removed the bed from the centre of the plan and turned it into one of many active birthing tools that included a water birth tub, squat bars and hooks, and a toilet ensuite island. The overall planning of the centre placed multi-purpose communal spaces in central locations to recognize the importance of a community of family and staff for expectant mothers.

Our primary clients for the project were Seventh Generation Midwives, a midwife collective offering services primarly to indigenous women. The project is one of two prototype centres being funded and built by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Lessons taken from this project will be used by the MOHLTC to develop functional requirements for future birth centres to be built across the province.

A hyper fast-tracked CCDC 5B project with extremely demanding timelines, my role included client consultation, space planning, consultant coordination, management of the production of contract drawings, and in-office and on-site contract admininistration support.

My son was born at the centre three years after completion.

Lead Designer, Job Captain

CLIENT:    City of Toronto, Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division

Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario   .   180,000 SF   .   Completion March 2014

The new Kipling Acres replaces an on-site facility from the 1950s that was technically and functionally no longer able to uphold the model of care and community our clients desired. In designing the new home, we centralized shared community spaces into a "town centre," including a multi-purpose auditorium, adult day program, barber, worship centre and children's daycare. All of these spaces adjoin the main lobby, which serves as a multi-generational hub and connects the three floors of the building. Each 32-bed residential unit is planned around central living-dining spaces that provide light from three directions and subtley mingles circulation, rest and activity space.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- client steering committee meetings and presentations
- wrote functional program in consultation with client
- site analysis and planning
- schematic design and space planning
- ran user group meetings and managed production of room data sheets
- code consultant coordination and analysis
- managed production of design development documents
- coordinated engineering systems consultants
- product and materials research
- coordinated cost consultant and reviewed reports
- managed production of construction documents in preparation for tender
- cross-checked schedules, exterior details, notation coordination with specifications
- reviewed specifications against drawings
- coordinated approvals with authorities (MOH, building department, SPA, MYCS)
- prepared addenda responses during tender period
- attended bid opening at city hall
- prepared, attended and issued pre-construction meeting agenda and minutes
- attended site meetings and issued site review reports
- provided office contract administration support (RFIs, SIs, PCs, COs, progress draws, shop drawings, logs)

Intern Architect

CLIENT:    St. John's Rehab Hospital

North York, Toronto, Ontario   .   63,000 SF   .   Completed 2011

Ambulatory care centre, hydrotherapy pool, new main entry and lobby, 32 bed inpatient unit, loading dock

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- schematic design and space planning
- site analysis and planning
- prepared design development drawings and presentation material
- attended and presented to client steering committee meetings
- ran user group meetings and room data sheet process
- functional program review and presented to client executive committee
- coordinated final approvals with authorities
- assisted in engineering consultant coordination
- code consultant coordination and analysis
- assisted in cost consultant report preparation and review
- product and materials research
- construction document preparation (plans, sections, details, schedules, specification review)
- assisted in contractor pre-qualification process
- assisted in issuance of addenda during tender period
- attended bid opening meeting and prepared comparative analysis of bids
- attended site review meeting
- provided CA support in response to site issues

Intern Architect

CLIENT:    First Nations Technical Insitute

Tyendinega Mowhawk Territory (near Belleville, Ontario)   .   80,000 SF   .   Master Plan, 2008

Master plan and business case for new technical college campus

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- historical and cultural research
- attended and presented to client steering committee meetings
- site analysis and consultant coordination
- code analysis
- wrote functional program
- master planning and schematic design drawings
- coordinated cost consultant and assisted in review of report

Intern Architect, PDC Compliance Review

CLIENT:     Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Toronto, Ontario  .  560,000 SF  .  Phase 1B completed 2012

Outpatient mental health services; acute geriatric and youth inpatient units; LEED Silver

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- assisted in preparation of schematic design and sketch plan drawings
- assisted in coordination and preparation of site plan approval documents
- code consultant coordination and analysis
- attended user group coordination meetings; prepared minutes
- assisted in preparation of room data sheets
- prepared standard room templates for PSOS
- attended proponent presentation and reviewed submissions during open RFP stage
- participated in legal review of documents for financial close
- attended design development user group and material review meetings
- provided PDC review of construction documents progress submissions
- reviewed shop drawings submittals and provided PSOS interpretations in response
- attended misc site reviews

Lead Designer, Project Manager

CLIENT:     City of Toronto, Parks & Recreation / Waterfront Toronto

Toronto, Ontario  .  1,000 SF  .  Completed Spring 2013

Public toilets building serving adjacent sports fields

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- project management (work plan, schedule, budget tracking, consultant fee proposals)
- attended and ran client planning meetings and user group meetings
- coordinated cost consultant and analyzed reports
- coordinated engineering consultants
- led preparation of design development drawings and renderings.
- coordinated approvals with authorities (building department, Toronto Water, Toronto Transportation Services, Development Engineering, Toronto Port Lands Authority, Toronto Terminal Railways)
- coordinated client's geo-technical, survey and soil remediation consultants
- coordinated and prepared building permit and tender documents
- coordinated specification consultant, reviewing specifications against tender drawings.

Intern Architect

CLIENT:     West Park Healthcare Centre

Toronto, Ontario  .  1,350,000 SF  .  Completion 2018

Master plan, business case, urban design guidelines and development approvals

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- prepared and issued major revision to master plan document.
- assisted in preparation of business case to accompany master plan.
- managed production of urban design guidelines.
- coordinated submissions to relevant authorities (city planning, MOH)
- cost and engineering consultant coordination.
- conducted existing building condition assessment and wrote report.
- code analysis

Functional Program Writer

CLIENT:     Ontario College of Pharmacists

Toronto, Ontario

Functional program for potential expansion and consolidation of College's services

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- met with client executive committee to discuss objectives of study.
- met with users in every department to understand and document current organizational structure.
- wrote functional program, prepared descriptive diagrams and wrote final report.

4th Year: Comprehensive Building Design Studio

Montréal, Québec

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2nd Year: Multi-Unit Housing Design Studio

Waterloo, Ontario

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5th Year Thesis: Touching the Blood of the Earth

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5th Year: Ritual Landscape Assemblage (Group Project)

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5th Year: House as Thesis, Toronto Laneway House

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2nd Year: Sustainable Wood Pavilion (Group Project)

Waterloo, Ontario

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1st Year: Woodside Visitors Centre

Kitchener, Ontario

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