Zoe Chan

Cataclysm: Overflow

Environmental Design
This thesis aims to ideate recreational/leisure spaces within Toronto communicating and assisting in water management on a microscale. Architecture and Building Sciences historically grapple with keeping water at bay, away from spaces and structures. Acclimating to rethinking building sciences through everyday polymers changing their environmental applications to finding new ways of water storage that permeate through/attract us to our buildings as opposed to rejecting it. Amending to an alternate perspective of water, inviting all altitudes of surplus space across the city to harmonious agency. A creation of space and fabrication that reflects the complex changing states of water while fostering a physical relationship and consciousness in everyday life for future crises.

“Water is a vital, multidimensional substance in our lives- essential and in excess. Climate change has impacted global water infrastructure. Toronto’s “Condo Euphoria”, erecting vast infrastructure hastily has eradicated our natural defences that were in place to mitigate incoming waters. Unprecedented water levels and rainfall increasing in the mid 2000’s are overflowing Toronto’s infrastructure, spilling into the streets, transportation paths, and destroying homes. The city is in need of a solution that services to salubrious water that is functional and made towards public use.

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Overview
Overview
Huffmans Origami Applications
Huffmans Origami Applications
A lil context
A lil context
Flood Indication TRCA
Flood Indication TRCA
Loss of Wetlands & Risk
Loss of Wetlands & Risk
City Wide Possibilities
City Wide Possibilities
'Site'
'Site'
Diagrammmatic
Diagrammmatic
Architectural Diagrams
Architectural Diagrams
Rendering
Rendering
Material X: WaterlocX
Material X: WaterlocX
Polymer Applications
Polymer Applications
Cataclysm: Overflow
Cataclysm: Overflow
Model
Model

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Zoe Chan

Architecture

“Avidly ruminating and reimagining how the spaces and environments that the built form we live within has placed us, and what it has obstructed us from, for better or for worse. ”