Project 3-part 2-Mehdi Hosseini

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Jenny Holzer

"(born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio), Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Holzer was originally an abstract artist, focusing on painting and printmaking; after moving to New York City in 1977, she began working with text as art. She was an active member of the artist's group Colab.
The main focus of her work is the use of words and ideas in public space. Street posters are her favorite medium, and she also makes use of a variety of other media, including LED signs, plaques, benches, stickers, T-shirts, and the Internet. Her work has also been integrated into the work of Canadian contemporary dance troupe Holy Body Tattoo."

In design of this installation I tried to create a space not only for art work to be shown, but also for local people to walk around it and be a part of it.
The art work will be carved in the walls and at night will be colorful by projectors.

Mehdi Hosseini-Project 3- Part 1

Proposed Location-Kipling Station

Perspective View

Perspective View

Perspective View

Plan

North, South Elevation
East, West Elevation Section


Model

Mehdi Hosseini-Exercise 7

Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise, ca. 1984
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" At the beach I would make paintings on long pieces of fabric and leave them so that people would come along and wonder what this thing was that had obviously been left by someone hoping to tickle their imaginations a little bit. Downtown I’d put bread out in abstract patterns so people could watch pigeons eat in squares and triangles….But the works weren’t beautiful enough or compelling enough or understandable enough to make people stop.”

Mehdi Hosseini- Exercise Six

Project Two-Part One-Mehdi Hosseini

The site is connected to the Toronto City Hall by a concrete bridge which runs across Queen st west. That bridge is part of Toronto underground Path which ends at City Hall.

Toronto PATH Map

Top View 1
Top View 2


Top View 3

The Lobby

The Sheraton Centre

1-Sheraton Centre (123 Queen St. West) is located at the intersection of Queen and York streets. It is actually a two-building complex (one faces Queen St; the shorter, 12 storey building is located behind the tower, located at Richmond and York intersection. This building was designed by Toronto-based architect firms Searle, Wilbee, Rowland and John B. Parkin Associates. This architecture firm also designed the current Toronto city hall in joint cooperation with the Finnish architect Viljo Revell (completed in 1965), the Simpson Tower (which now houses The Bay department store) as well as other notable complexes including Toronto-Dominion Centre, headed by Mies van der Rohe from 1967 to 1969.

2-The construction of this hotel was completed in 1972. It is the tallest free standing hotel-only building in Canada until 2009, when it will be surpassed by Niagara Falls Hilton hotel. It is an international style building and consists of mainly concrete and glass. An elevated walkway connects the hotel, the city hall and stairwell to Nathan Phillips Square. However, it is closed due to the budget limitations.

3-This building is 135m tall, and has 43 floors. This building has 21 elevators, 18 of them are in the tower, one in hotel atrium and two service elevators in podium (basement). There are 1,377 guestrooms in the complex.

Exercise Four-Mehdi Hosseini

Normally referred as the ‘TD Centre’.
1-It consists of six towers, covered in bronze-tinted glass and black painted steel. The complex was the inspiration of Allen Lambert (1911-2002), former President and Chairman of the Board of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, with Phyllis Lambert recommending Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as the project architect.
2- The Toronto-Dominion Centre is one of North America’s largest business communities. It is home to many generations of business leaders. Its influence reaches far beyond the TD Centre borders and it has presented Canada with a new standard of excellence for design and construction, defining the notion of Canada’s financial capital. It is owned by the Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited. The Toronto-Dominion Centre has 6 buildings, the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, Royal Trust Tower, Canadian Pacific Tower, TD Waterhouse Tower, Ernst & Young Tower, and 95 Wellington West. The total rentable area of the office towers is 4,300,000 square feet with over 100 tenants and 150,000 square feet in the retail concourse with over 75 tenants. Also as part of the complex, the old Toronto Stock Exchange building was incorporated and converted into the Design Exchange building that can be accessed from Bay Street or inside the complex.
3- Over the years the Toronto-Dominion Centre has participated in the "Fatal Light Awareness Program" (FLAP). The TD Centre’s automated lighting system turns off the lights in some areas at a specific time after business hours in September and October to help prevent birds flying at night from hitting the windows.
4-"The two-storey banking hall in the plaza is among the best spaces Mies ever made. As you are visiting the branch you will find yellow flowers in a fishbowl vase on the service counters just where Mies had put them." (from Globe and Mail, November 4, 2002)
5- Royal Bank Plaza Escalator Replacement Oxford Properties replaced the escalators linking the Royal Bank Plaza to the TD Centre on October 10, 2008.

6- To improve its energy profile, in 2000 the Centre embarked on a comprehensive energy retrofit of all its facilities, including a comprehensive education and awareness program with financial assistance from the Energy Innovators Initiative (EII). Specific measures implemented by the Toronto-Dominion Centre included upgrading existing lighting to T-8 technology or higher or electronic ballasts. The amount of time the lighting was functioning was also reduced through the installation of occupancy sensors and automated lighting controls. Control systems with variable air volume were installed in the HVAC system. Finally, a program was initiated to improve employee and tenant awareness and to train key staff on the improved facility systems.
Highlights
Member of the EII since February 1999
EII project started in 2000
Retrofit of all six of its buildings, representing 416 700 m2
Total project investment of $26,774,729
Energy savings of $4,250,000 per year
Annual energy consumption savings of 162 636 GJ (45.18 million ekWh)

Kipling Station Maps

Occupancy vs. Business Overlay

We chose to overlay these maps because they signify the opposite ends of the spectrum. They indicate, together, that the two forces play in close proximity to each other. The two maps together really fill up our constraints of our base map.

Occupancy vs. Available Transit Overlay

In this overlay, the maps seem to frame each other into sections. The transit hubs, or stops, indicate the outer extremities of each individual neighborhood. It is also very easy to see the areas in the occupied zones, where transit is not readily available, and a moderate walk is necessary to reach a specific stop. It also readily displays the direct relationship between the transit routes, and the railway system the flows through the middle. It is simple to identify the only main passage over the tracks.

Exercise Four: Amin shahinbakhsh

Mapping is a technique that brings new possibilities. It is more than tracing what is real. It can bring the past and possibility of future together in one perspective. Mapping is a design tool for the urban developers. Mapping is known to be an analytical process that records the facts for our use. This does not make the science of mapping any less imaginary or inventive. It stands to be as important as any other part of design. The initiative is to make the existing condition evident. This part of the design is the most important since it creates the platform for creation. The technique of mapping has integrated over time with changes in technology, although the scheme and overall process has remained the same. It is important to consider the influence of mapping on our perception of future. Mapping influences our perception of the world and imagination of the future world. Mapping brings the present and future together. The new techniques have to take these into consideration.

Project One-Part Two-Mehdi Hosseini

BASE MAPTRAFFIC

RESIDENTIAL
TRANSPORTATION-(RAIL RD)

BUSINESS SIZE VEHICLES

Exercise Three- Mehdi Hosseini

Kipling Station- Mehdi Hosseini

1-Residential


There are just a few residential apartments next to the Kipling subway station.




2-Traffic
Rush hour time at the main intersection close by Kipling station.

3-Bussines Size

Most businesses are small and having a few customers because of less population comparing to the central area of Toronto.

4-Transportation

Kipling station is located in the furthest west in the TTC and the city of Toronto. The need of transportation is the force that made city of Toronto to build the station in Kipling area.

5-Vehicles

Most of the vehicles were in the lower class; cheap and old. There were a lot of trucks indicating the type of jobs in which most residence having in that area.

Exercise Two - Mehdi Hosseini

1- SMALL SCALE


2-MEDIUM SCALE



3-LARGE SCALE

Exercise One

Mehdi Hosseini

What I want to be in next 10 years? I’d love to be an Architect, whom every body talks or writes about the projects which I designed. I want to be the one who brings new and unique ideas to the architectural and design industry. I could see myself traveling around the world and design and create my own masterpiece. I just don’t like to be called a simple architect; I want to be a professional designer whom everyone is looking forward to work with. STAY TUNED…