Park(ing) Day 2025 | Final Images

We successfully completed Parking Day, and it was rewarding to see people interacting with the installation during the weekend activation. Developing the design as a team was a fun process, and the entire project became a valuable hands-on learning experience as the design came to life. 

(Photo taken by Jade Yu Tung Wong and Theo Tsang)

Park(ing) Day 2025 | Installation

The installation took place early in the morning and continued until noon. We started by building the base to fit the pre-assembled components. Once the base was secured, we connected the components while making final adjustments. It was exciting to see the project coming together!

(Photo taken by Mirko Garcia)

Park(ing) Day 2025 | Assembly

The fabrication is now completed and the components are ready to be assembled. To make sure that the installation day goes smoothly, we preassembled into 7 components.

Park(ing) Day 2025 | Fabrication

With the design finalized, we started the fabrication. The work was divided into a few main tasks: cutting the pipes, building the chairs, and cutting the HDPE sheets using the CNC machine.

One of the biggest challenges was cutting the pipes, as the measurements had to be extremely precise to achieve the organic form.

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