#site study

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Updated Site Study Document

I created a curated document compiling information as well as conducting my own investigations on the ‘Zero Energy House’. This comprehensive site study will help shape certain aspects of my project.

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An Architectural site analysis desktop study helps to highlight the key and most important areas of your site prior to your site visit, enabling you to produce the best architectural site analysis research and presentation diagrams.

“.....Once engaged in a new project one of the first things you'll want to organise will be your visit to the proposed site, however in most cases this is unlikely to happen instantly and so in the meantime it is very beneficial to carry out a site analysis desktop study.....”

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DIAGRAMS

from the site study at First Central Station in previous posting.

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HISTORICAL SPACE SITE STUDY

Absurdity is best described as the “conflict between (1) the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and (2) the human inability to find any.

I want to speak to the idea of absurdity through the presentation that it is “absurd to memorialize an animal considered a pest on any other day while thousands of aboriginal women are murdered an missing in Canada”

For this piece I was inspired heavily by Intervention pieces that rather than speaking to a personal struggle will address a greater flaw or the like in society and figure a representational method to accompany this ideal; the raccoon that was memorialized on July 9th on 819 Yonge Street is my “piece of history” that I am playing with, dealing through the idea of the absurdity and remembrance.

Further proving my point of the absurd is these articles that explain Toronto's systematic aversion to these animals, namely due to their tendency to carry rabies: The Globe and Mail  CTV News CTV News

These are not beloved creatures, so the memorialization of them could speak negatively to those who have been afflicted by this epidemic of cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and the government's silence on the matter.

Information on missing and murdered indigenous women: NWAC CBC

Although for a long time this was majorly slept on by the Government of Canada, steps have been made towards a national inquiry into the deaths and missing cases of indigenous women in Canada. This is a great first step but does not mend the wounds of years of neglect of this issue. I want to properly portray a compassion for those afflicted by this epidemic without offending them.

WHERE

819 Yonge Street (southeast corner of Church Street): site where the raccoon was memorialized on July 9 2015 (buzzfeed article about the incident)

although this is not so much a historical event as much as it is a contemporary news story it has happened in the space that I wish to intervene in thus leading it to have historical significance.

THE INTERVENTION

My initial thoughts were to create a mock-style memorial, although this idea has risen some concerns in myself, namely that the idea of a mock memorial might be offensive in the face of such tragedy. So I aimed to touch more into the absurdist ideals of the project. This has led me to the idea of recreating the raccoon memorial with subtle changes in it so as to tell the audience that this is absurd.

- The memorial would look as such:

- a collection box for the animals burial (words edited to speak to the interventions ideals)

- framed picture of raccoon (w/ words about missing and murdered indigenous)

- flowers (red rose/ baby's breath)

- card/paper w/ writing

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Site Study Renderings

For this site study, our client asked to have renderings of different design scenarios that he could use to show members of the community.  These renderings would have to show the neighbors living around the site what the development would look like completed. This would help them to visualize what design option would be the best fit for the site. The client really wanted to push for the one…

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