Park(ing) Day 2025 | Final Design

After refining our proposals, we finalized the design using red pipes as the "wall" separating the project from the street. These pipes are organized in an organic mountainous shape, connected by a dense cloud of floating connecting pieces made of HDPE sheets. The thin connectors stabilize the structure but seem to disappear and reappear as people walk past them. The installation has multiple seating where visitors can sit and relax in groups or on their own.

SOLAIR | Finalizing Frame Fabrication

Continuing assembly and preparing for installation. Through collaboration, the students screwed the wooden framework together. Once the framework was complete, the reflective panels were carefully attached, making sure there was a secure connection while allowing room for movement. The students assembled as many components as possible to minimize the amount of assembly on installation day.

Figure 1: Students worked together on the connections of the wooden framework. 

Figure 2: Students discussed the specifics of the reflective panel connection to the wooden framework.

Figure 3: Time-lapse of students assembling the wooden framework of Solair.

Park(ing) Day 2025 | Team Proposals

Students from Toronto Metropolitan University’s Department of Architectural Science are participating in Park(ing) Day 2025. The site is set on Gould st, in the middle of our campus.
The Parking Day event is a three day installation. The event allows us to repurpose the spaces used by cars for people to gather. We split into three teams and focused on making human-scale spaces while reusing materials leftover from previous design builds.

Team 1 Proposal

Team 2 Proposal

Team 3 Proposal

Camp Winston Sensory Yurt Furnishings | Design Development

Since our last site visit to Camp Winston, the team has been working hard to incorporate the feedback we received and refine the direction of the project. With the updates coming together, we’re now preparing the final designs to present to the Camp Winston team!