Design Intent - Development Application

Design Intent The design of 1550 Alberni Street is shaped by its environment. The 43-storey tower is carved by two emphatic scoops that form deep balconies with a wood appearance. In both instances, the carvings create semi-enclosures that strengthen their relations to the street and to the views – to its urban and geographic context while optimizing neighbourhood views past the project. Because of the way the otherwise orthogonal tower is carved, its silhouette constantly changes, creating illusionary profiles of arching cantilevers. The reality is far more structured as the carved deductions are diagonally symmetrical, the lower portion helping to counterbalance the hanging volume above. The tower meets the ground with two intersecting domes that embrace Alberni and Cardero Street. Under the arching structures, an extensive moss garden defines the entrance and flows to the swimming pool above. In keeping with Japanese spatial traditions, the emphasis is on the atmosphere rather than the object: without drawing attention to a particular point laden with meaning, the void elicits a serene visceral experience that could be shared by all.

Shaped by the Environment

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Organic Enclosures and Cascading Fields

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Formal Strategy Deductive optimization

Maximum Extrusion

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Carved deductions

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Contrasting composition

Urban Strategy Carve and connect to surroundings; surroundings sensitive sculptural form responding to neighbourhood views

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Consistent Floor Areas Carved forms create the balanced appearance of asymmetry within rational geometry while addressing the averaged intent of the west end plan floorplate size guidelines for the tower above podium level.

CONSISTENT FLOOR AREAS

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View west on Alberni Street

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View east on Georgia Street

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Japanese Gardens The absence of objects / presence of space

JAPANESE GARDENS

absense of objects / presense of space

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Wood Joinery and Land Art

LANDWOOD ART JOINERY

GC Prostho Museum

crafting the organic construction Roofof environments

Kengo Kuma Architects and Associates

GC Prostho Museum Andy Goldsworthy; Oak Room, 2009

B E R N I S T R E E T - S C H E M AT I C D E S I G N - W O R K S H O P

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Andy Goldsworthy; Starbucks Roof, 2005 Dazaifu

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Integration of Public and Private Realm

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Ground Plane Studies and Precedents

Visually Porous Bamboo Gateway

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Proposed public realm and Japanese Garden

Residential Lobby and Entrance

Proposed intersection at Cardero and Alberni Streets

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