Westmount Place
Intern Architect / Urban Designer
Waterloo, Ongoing
As Site Designer and Intern Architect, I prepare visioning studies for mixed-use neighbourhoods and work closely with the City and Region through the planning process. My work on Westmount Place straddles building and site, and operates at the scale of a large master plan and fine-grain pedestrian experiences.
The proposal for Westmount Place includes six residential towers with multi-storey podiums and ground-level commercial, a new four-storey parking structure, and enhanced public spaces. The proposal incorporates alterations to the existing shopping centre and offices, and looks to establish connections through greening and citizen pathways to Waterloo Park, Uptown, and existing transit systems.
“Our gait is as personal as a fingerprint, and so are our multiple itineraries. Knowledge is grown along the myriad of paths we take”
— Tim Ingold
“Architecture is thus read as having the capacity to induce slow speeds, to inhabit silences, to trace new cultural vacancies and derelict spaces.”
— Felicity D. Scott
“Understanding cities and architecture – and communicating that understanding – involves telling real stories about real places…”
— Borden, Kerr, Pivaro, & Rendell
“Only an awareness of the influences of the existing environment can encourage the critique of the present conditions of daily life…”
— Sadie Plant
“It’s from the fragments,
the forgotten bits, that you actually read the world”
— Borden, Kerr, Pivaro, & Rendell