According to the last national census in Canada, almost half of Toronto residents are immigrants, a third of whom arrived in the past decade. in order for the city to adapt to this RSS soaring immigrants, Architecture for Humanity Toronto (AFHTO) called on students and professionals from diverse backgrounds to rethink the urban fabric of Toronto - and in particular its high rise developments - by establishing a series of conferences and workshops entitled "strategies incremental for vertical Neighborhoods. "
At the inaugural event last few weeks, Filipe Balestra Urban Nouveau * was invited to talk about his work and contribute to a design charrette inspired by the City Renewal Toronto tower program. For more information on the event and Balestra, read on after the break.
The practice visionary co-founded with Sara Göransson Balestra works on the understanding that life should happen outside the office. They adopted an open design-build where customers and their communities are active participants, allowing mutual trust and respect prosper and the proposed benefit.
There may not be a better example of Urban incremental housing strategy again the work they have done in India, where they developed a strategy with people in a vulnerable community to replace the temporary shelters with permanent, denying their fear of being displaced, while respecting the existing organic fabric of the neighborhood. Since leaving India, the project has thrived on its own - just as they intended. Today, more than 1,000 permanent structures are being built. This approach resonates strongly with the architecture of the philosophy of humanity how Toronto should be refurbished - in collaboration with existing inhabitants - Balestra doing a great leader for the event
event participants were then asked to consider the City program tower Renewal of Toronto which aims to improve the current conditions of depreciation and isolated concrete towers built in the 1950 and 1980. Thanks to their efforts, Toronto has a new area called Residential Apartment commercial (RAC), which "allows small commercial scale and Community uses on apartment construction sites, providing opportunities for new businesses that will contribute to the vitality and diversity of neighborhoods apartments. "
the design charrette afternoon focuses on four of these towers in Thorncliffe Park, one of many neighborhoods Tour renewal and hope for the RAC zone to help. The area is now known as "arrival city" - a place where new immigrants live, but leave when they reach a certain level of wealth in the community the four towers above took steps to. improve their quality of life and become more autonomous, which will hopefully encourage future residents of the middle class to stay.
the participants were divided into groups and asked to focus on one of six target demographic within the Thorncliffe Park community. - children, young adults, adults, seniors, families and women during the afternoon, the groups identified based programs . on the needs expressed by the population they represented and were asked to come up with even small achievable and affordable design interventions that nevertheless have an important impact these structures were to be autonomous - yet integrated -.! Structures on residential land in accordance with the RAC zone
The proposals not only answered the question of the consolidation of several programs and the acquisition of building materials, but also the creation of activity hubs and make communities safer and more inclusive. Ideas ranged from a collective library tool that doubled as ESL (English Second Language) and driver training facilities in a multi-layered game space built from donations and tire re-purposed. According to the idea of incremental development, many groups have proposed a modular construction strategy - allowing growth to meet the resources and community needs
AFHTO hopes to use ideas . generated during the design charrette to facilitate the efforts already undertaken by residents of Thorncliffe Park and Tower Renewal program. The event was organized and run by Maeva Baudoin, urban designer and planner, in collaboration with the rest of the team AFHTO. To stay updated with the company and participate in the future "incremental strategies for vertical Neighborhoods" events, stay tuned to the site Architecture for Humanity Toronto.
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