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Evan Hills—Craig Race Model Award![]()
Evan Hills—Craig Race Model Award
About the Award
For a student who demonstrates creativity and technique in the building of the architectural scale model.
The fragment model of the Hamilton Aquatic Centre focuses on the connection between exterior interaction and internal separation. In developing a prominent street corner in the city of Hamilton, the project expresses the depth away from the exterior junction, developing an external concourse that in relation provides a disconnect from the public realm. Presented throughout the project and specifically within the physical model, the third-floor permeable copper panes focus on the expression of transparency and semi-transparency. Serving as the connection between the external and internal spaces. Thus giving a sense of privacy and separation while simultaneously showcasing the programmatic spaces that the facility has to offer towards the exterior for pedestrian interaction. The large atrium, upon entry, develops that sense of fluidity in scale through the transition from exterior to interior, filled with daylight that opens up the space, showcasing the scale of the aquatic centre itself, where major circulation and programmatic spaces are divided from.
The Aquatic centre serves as a new central space for the downtown district, programmatically opening up to athletic spaces, areas for personal well-being development and overall spaces for community engagement. The Aquatic centre follows a U-shaped mass, where the two external wings distinguish itself with aquatic-focused spaces with community-focused program spaces encase them. The overall mass follows back to an idea of a central space where an exterior public square is situated, dividing itself away from the external street frontage and encasing itself within the U-shaped form, giving a sense of privacy to visitors of the aquatic centre.
For a student who demonstrates creativity and technique in the building of the architectural scale model.
The fragment model of the Hamilton Aquatic Centre focuses on the connection between exterior interaction and internal separation. In developing a prominent street corner in the city of Hamilton, the project expresses the depth away from the exterior junction, developing an external concourse that in relation provides a disconnect from the public realm. Presented throughout the project and specifically within the physical model, the third-floor permeable copper panes focus on the expression of transparency and semi-transparency. Serving as the connection between the external and internal spaces. Thus giving a sense of privacy and separation while simultaneously showcasing the programmatic spaces that the facility has to offer towards the exterior for pedestrian interaction. The large atrium, upon entry, develops that sense of fluidity in scale through the transition from exterior to interior, filled with daylight that opens up the space, showcasing the scale of the aquatic centre itself, where major circulation and programmatic spaces are divided from.
The Aquatic centre serves as a new central space for the downtown district, programmatically opening up to athletic spaces, areas for personal well-being development and overall spaces for community engagement. The Aquatic centre follows a U-shaped mass, where the two external wings distinguish itself with aquatic-focused spaces with community-focused program spaces encase them. The overall mass follows back to an idea of a central space where an exterior public square is situated, dividing itself away from the external street frontage and encasing itself within the U-shaped form, giving a sense of privacy to visitors of the aquatic centre.
