S'Winter Station - Family Day

On family day, the neighborhood community made use of the pavilion, achieving the competition's objective by demonstrating the adaptability of the local beach and the people of Canada during the seasonal transition from summer to winter.

S'Winter Station - Construction Day Two

Students were tasked with constructing and hoisting the second wing onto the support framework. After the wing was securely fastened to the structure, the pavilion gave the students shelter and offered breathtaking views of Lake Ontario via its apertures.

S'winter Station - Construction Day One

The main support structure and the pavilion's first wing were built by a group of DAS students on the first day on site. Although, the cold weather and snow were a challenge for construction, the students worked as a team and were determined to stay on schedule. 

 

S'Winter Station - Virtual and Augmented Reality

Using Hololense 2 throughout all project phases, AR aided students visualized the pavilion at a 1:1 size. Virtual and augmented reality were the ideal tools for conceptualizing shape and scale since the design team had to create the pavilion during a COVID-19 lockdown.

S'Winter Station - Prefabricated Construction With Experimental Casting

The towels were soaked in concrete and then laid on these Baltic birch plywood panels. Water was constantly sprayed on the concrete towels during drying to prevent the concrete from cracking. One hundred fifty panels were made with four different aperture conditions, cataloged, piled, and sent to the site. The conical concrete cast beach towels provided a fluid enclosure with various aperture sizes.

S'Winter Station - Technology

To create the conical shape for the textile concrete cladding with apertures, 270 Baltic birch plywood panels were CNC (Computer Numerical Control) cut. The CNC machine additionally provided students with the ability to egg-crate the pavilions wooded structure. This innovative construction technique that allowed the material to interconnect with itself seamlessly, creating a simplistic assembly approach.