THIRD YEAR UNDERGRADUATE
Richmond Dakay—Norm Li Award for Outstanding Architectural Visualization
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Richmond Dakay—Norm Li Award for Outstanding Architectural Visualization
About the Award
Norm Li Award for Outstanding Architectural Visualization:
To recognize students who demonstrate emerging talent in conveying design through 3D architectural visualization. Norm Li wants to build and maintain mutually rewarding relationships so that they can achieve exceptional results for their team and their clients. Through this award they hope to achieve the following objectives:
Architecture is meant to be inhabited, but it’s quite regrettably often experienced as pictures on a screen. Our job as visual communicators is thus to convey the essence of inhabiting a space; beyond what can be measured, we explore ideas of the feelings a space give us, the activities it enables, and the people it attracts. Our pictures must distill a sense of the lives fulfilled in a building, a building amongst its neighbourhood, a neighbourhood in a city, and beyond.
The recent push for the missing middle reflects a greater need and desire for diverse housing options in our communities. Located at the southeast corner of the Sherbourne St. and Gerrard St. E. intersection, this mid-rise mixed-use residential project fosters a dialogue with Allan Gardens just diagonally across. Through several gestures of form and colour, this project aims to engage with the existing community and further activate the intersection.
The articulation of each unit on the street-facing facade gives a sense that the whole—whether that be the form of building itself or the greater community—is made up of individuals. The rooftop daycare offers the children the widest view of the community around them. The composition of colour ties these individual aspects together.
I’m honoured to receive this award and I am deeply motivated to continue exploring visualization as a means of storytelling in architecture.
Norm Li Award for Outstanding Architectural Visualization:
To recognize students who demonstrate emerging talent in conveying design through 3D architectural visualization. Norm Li wants to build and maintain mutually rewarding relationships so that they can achieve exceptional results for their team and their clients. Through this award they hope to achieve the following objectives:
- Build awareness of the archviz career path
- Help prepare students and emerging archviz talent for the workforce
- Cultivate community of 3D archviz artists
- Build their employer profile for recruitment of new grads and alumni
Architecture is meant to be inhabited, but it’s quite regrettably often experienced as pictures on a screen. Our job as visual communicators is thus to convey the essence of inhabiting a space; beyond what can be measured, we explore ideas of the feelings a space give us, the activities it enables, and the people it attracts. Our pictures must distill a sense of the lives fulfilled in a building, a building amongst its neighbourhood, a neighbourhood in a city, and beyond.
The recent push for the missing middle reflects a greater need and desire for diverse housing options in our communities. Located at the southeast corner of the Sherbourne St. and Gerrard St. E. intersection, this mid-rise mixed-use residential project fosters a dialogue with Allan Gardens just diagonally across. Through several gestures of form and colour, this project aims to engage with the existing community and further activate the intersection.
The articulation of each unit on the street-facing facade gives a sense that the whole—whether that be the form of building itself or the greater community—is made up of individuals. The rooftop daycare offers the children the widest view of the community around them. The composition of colour ties these individual aspects together.
I’m honoured to receive this award and I am deeply motivated to continue exploring visualization as a means of storytelling in architecture.
