YEAR 2

Tyler Chui—Matthew and Anne Tomljenovic Award

About the Award
Highest CGPA average among the second-year Architecture courses.

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For assignment 1, students were given a site located in Toronto and individually had to research the history, uses, circulation, access, and legal framework. With this research, to then analyze the site and conclude theories on how it is shaped by the urban context and whether its an area of interest to be revitalized. The site allocated for me was 135 Church Street across the street from the Metropolitan United Church.

Assignment 2 was a group project where we had to design a proposal to redesign an area of interest from our previous individual project. My group members were Eric Bowen, Hajara Nida Hameed, Hyun Jung (Joshua) Kim and myself, where we analyzed the Metropolitan United Church and its surrounding buildings. Our goal was to promote biodiversity throughout the site by creating a natural environment that would attract local species of bees and birds and improve the existing vegetation within the site. We also aimed to increase the circulation and reduce the amount of surface runoff by using the filtered water to feed the surrounding vegetation and circulate the collected water back into Lake Ontario.

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For our final essay, we were required to research a given topic, time period and location and discuss its impact on the society of that time. My topic was London dwellings during the post-war period where I examined the housing necessity due to the population growth and the LCC’s partake in this matter. I further discussed the inflation of construction overseen by the LCC to conclude the increase in population post-war negatively affected the well-being and living environments of the city of London.