2010
Bohemier Residence | Prairie Design Awards | Award of Merit
Johanna Hurme | 2010 Manitoba Woman Entrepreneur of the Year | Emerging Business
BGBX | 57th Annual P/A Awards | multifamily
2009
YouCube | Canadian Architect Awards | Award of Merit
Square Meal | RiverView Health Centre 'The Event' | Runner-up
Team 5468796 | MAA Ken Pratt Memorial Golf Tournament | 1st place
Greenseed Development
working drawings
2010
$2M
multi-family residential
10 500 sqft
BLOC_10 is a 10-unit condominium project at the corner of Grant Ave. and Niagara Street. All units are unique 3-storey walk-ups, given the feeling of more expansive interior space by how they stagger across the site as they ascend three storeys. Conceived as 'white box' layouts, a strict service core - containing all mechanical services and two rows of continuous double-run stairs - makes the necessary flexibility possible. With each level change, one must pass through the service core, creating an internal constant amongst the various extended views of each floor. Additionally, this stair allows occupants to have views in at least 2 directions within their unit and makes 8 of 10 units into corner units - allowing views in 3 directions.
Dotted across each elevation are several 17' wide x 6' deep cantilevered extensions. In combination with the perimeter screen, these extensions enable a floor-plate large enough for several living spaces, while contributing to the creation of an intermediate space between the public and private realms. This 6-foot 'porch' wraps the entire building, occupied by semi-private terraces and decks - all behind the shadow pattern of the 3-storey vertical screen. www.bloc10.ca
Centre Venture
construction
2010
$2.5M
multi-family residential
25 units
Centre Village is a 25-unit housing co-op located on a small infill lot in Winnipeg’s Central Park neighbourhood. The project strives to create a true community – a housing village – with modest means. The design is based on simple, 8’ x 12’ modules organized on a central spine. Occasionally, the base module is replaced by a larger 14’ x 12’ unit that cantilevers off the main spine to accommodate living quarters. All upper units have their own rooftop patio, and second-storey units are accessed by exterior staircases.
The mixture of standardized modules creates richness and variability on the site, generating a seemingly unorganized, yet carefully considered composition of small one, two and three bedroom homes. These ‘bars’ of housing are arranged around a shared inner courtyard that is also open to the surrounding community.
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MIIC
hold zone inc.
construction
2010
$4M
housing + support
25 000sqft
Welcome Place is an organization that promotes and supports the protection and resettlement of refugees under the auspices of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council (MIIC). The non-profit group has engaged 5468796 to design new offices and reception space for the vast variety of services they provide, from assistance with settlement and life-skills training to sponsorship programs and in-canada protection. The project also includes 23 units of transitional housing for new immigrants.
The design focuses on the significance of prospect and refuge for residents and patrons of Welcome Place – who are just beginning to make a place for themselves in Canada – through the integration and overlap of public and private space. The private spaces are defined by a random patterning of windows that form a uniquely textured facade with multiple views to the exterior. Walls have thickness so these views feel less expansive and more protective. The public realm begins with a sunken courtyard outside the main doors, forming an exterior ‘room’ for community functions. Within the building, public spaces are located at the building’s edges, permeating through the facade to engage the streetscape below. These spaces are identified by a living wall, composed of graphics and text that explore the history of immigration alongside new immigrants’ own stories of departure and arrival.
Riverview Health Centre
complete
28.04.09
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Exhibit
8'x8'x8'
The Riverview Health Centre serves individuals with rehabilitation and long term care needs, and strives to create a healing environment that feels more like a home than a hospital. The Riverview Health Centre Foundation supports RHC’s initiatives through various philanthropic endeavours, including a fundraising dinner called ‘The Event.’ First held in 2008, the Event calls upon local designers to create original, dining-themed settings that are then judged and awarded prizes at the end of the evening.
Square Meal is an interactive dining space, in contrast to the more formal and rigid table settings that are becoming a thing of the past in many households. The design uses 96 sheets of 1/2” mdf, spaced 2” apart, to create an 8’x8’ cube. The cube is then carved into and out of to create different eating nooks, allowing occupants to eat however they choose, whether it’s lying down, standing up or somewhere in between.
North Portage Devel. Corp.
design development
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TBA
commercial / office space
10 000sqft
The Mitchell-Copp building emerged during an era of intense growth and economic development along Portage Avenue, one of Winnipeg’s most important arteries. Constructed in the early 1900s, the building was converted to a bank in 1920, with renovations including the monumental facade it still has today. Extensive fire damage later destroyed the interior, leaving behind a burned-out shell that remained empty for years before its recent acquisition by the North Portage Development Corporation.
The new design contains four floors of offices suspended over a restaurant space that is sunken into the former basement. This floating, translucent box is set back from the walls and front facade, bringing daylight to the interior and creating an impressive, forty foot high volume free of visual obstructions.
The project is a study in contrast between old and new, simplicity and classical embellishments, letting the existing building speak through texture and ornament. Blackened brick walls will be cleaned and left exposed, and glazing in the barrel-vaulted ceiling and arched window on the facade will be restored.
private
construction
summer 2010
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cottage
1200sqft (enclosed)
Located adjacent to Lake Winnipeg in Dunnottar, MB., this 4-season cottage was initially envisioned as a modest home away from home for a family of four. Cottage functions are divided to create a variety of habitable spaces, and allow for energy conservation through seasonal expansion and contraction. One roof envelopes three primary structures [main cottage / summer cottage / accessory building (storage+carport)] and an array of outdoor rooms [screen porch, covered decks, open decks]. The material palette is kept simple to emphasize the contrast between the roof surface [dark, ribbed siding] and the internal structures [exposed framing / plywood / and translucent glass and plastics].
Inside, a simple strip of living space folds onto itself, orienting views towards the lake, and capturing sunlight and natural breezes. Delicate maneuvers in plan and elevation avoid losing any existing trees on the property. Complexity is created at the crease where the main cottage twists in response to these site conditions. The resulting two-storey sawtooth wall that bisects the main cottage and the triangulated roof surface brings dynamic volumes to an otherwise uncomplicated wood-frame cottage structure.
Lakeview Management
design development
2012
$20M
luxury hotel
75 000sqft
The new Grand Hotel, cradled in the centre point of the arc formed by the new terminal for the Winnipeg International Airport, first appears as a mysterious shimmering mass against the skyline. Upon arrival, a dynamic, contemporary glass and metal clad structure materializes with an imposing cantilever that reaches towards the terminal, lifting off the ground to allow for public engagement below.
The glazed base supports a seemingly weighty body of rooms above, creating a structural play both on the exterior and inside the main lobby, where the ceiling begins at an intentionally intimate scale before soaring 22 feet upward in one continuous and dramatic movement. Not unlike the new terminal itself, the open and transparent hotel lobby with its world class restaurants and amenities will act as a point of convergence for visitors, a gateway to Winnipeg, and a place to see and be seen in.
Greenseed Development
construction
2010
$4M
multi-family condos
15 000sqft
youCUBE is an experiment in density and affordability at the north end of Waterfront Drive, in downtown Winnipeg. Located on one of the street’s last available plots of land with direct access to the Red River, youCUBE offers market rate housing in an area that is made up primarily of luxury condo developments.
The project challenges conventional multi-family housing design, providing 18 three and four storey townhouses clustered together on an elevated community plaza. Each unit is an open living cube defined by an architectural ‘wrap’; an element that delineates floors, mezzanines, and storage units as it weaves through the space. The wrap reacts with the walls of the cube by folding back onto itself to create a step, or continuing upward to form window openings. Ceiling heights soar up to 36 feet and roof-top terraces allow for panoramic views of the city skyline.
The building’s pristine white finish stands in intentional contrast to the neighbourhood’s current industrial setting, one which is changing rapidly as the south end of Waterfront Drive is redefined by high-priced condominiums. youCUBE has the potential to enliven the street with a new residential demographic and small-scale commercial activity, increasing pedestrian traffic and acting as a catalyst for future growth.
EQ3 is a furniture company committed to high quality industrial design at affordable prices, promising an inspiring experience to all who enter the showroom doors. 5468796 has been engaged to recreate and assist in rebranding the EQ3 stores all across North America, recognizing the unique synergy in a joint mission to demonstrate that great modern design need not be expensive.
The first project provides a new face for the EQ3 showroom in Vancouver, BC. 5468796 has identified a large surplus of glass water bottles from restaurants in the city as a material resource that typically ends up in the landfill. Instead, the bottles will be used to clad the existing facade to create a visually engaging and environmentally friendly feature - filtering daylight and protecting interior furnishings. The project’s innovation lies in its ability to combine opportunities for branding, community involvement and a new, greener direction for EQ3.
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construction
2010
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boatport and boardwalk
3000 sqft + boardwalk
The Guertin Boatport is a two-storey, open-air floating dock and fixed boardwalk situated on Long Bow Lake in western Ontario.
Reflective materials and fragmented vertical planes scatter and redirect light reflecting off of the lake surface. Perforated materials visually reduce the boatports large size and allow extended views of the lake and the surrounding Canadian Shield.
The dock and viewing deck are accessed by an extruded aluminum plank boardwalk following the profile of the rocky shore. Flexible, hinged joints accommodate the rise and fall of water levels and the freeze/thaw cycles of ice. The structure consists of custom designed, cold-formed steel C-channels, pressure treated joists and composite decking. The upper deck is lowered around its edges to keep the lake view clear and unobstructed by the stainless steel cable guards.
North Portage Development Corp.
Completed 2008
$15 000 [storefront only]
storefront
1000 sqft
Pedestrian skywalks are a common fixture in downtown Winnipeg, due to the harsh winter temperatures that keep city residents indoors for much of the year. The popularity of these transition spaces has encouraged retail development throughout their network, in order to serve the needs of business employees and their patrons.
One such tenant is Venio Store, located on the skywalk between Portage Place Mall and the Carlton Building. 5468796 was hired to design a creative alternative to the traditional, accordion-fold security screens that dominate most shopping malls. The end result is a white metal screen perforated with small holes to create an abstract, geometric pattern that changes depending on lighting conditions and viewing angle. The small, 610 square foot interior has also been refitted with new shelving and fixtures to suit the exterior upgrades.
BGBX takes on an industrial big box typology as its prefatory metaphor, transforming a vacant lot at the intersection of Wall Street and St. Matthews Avenue into a 24-unit housing development for Winnipeg’s West End.
The project incorporates six separate blocks with alternating two and three storey residential loft units and small scale commercial flex spaces at grade. The project begins as a white corrugated metal box, a blank slate which is then strategically sliced at six points to reveal unexpected glimpses of lush, green foliage at the block's centre. The landscaped courtyard cuts away at the box from the inside out to create a dynamic, multi-facetted courtyard facade.
The design seeks innovation at all levels, including its building systems. Hollowcore concrete slabs are used as air plenums, eliminating the need for ductwork. Abundant vegetation in the courtyard acts as lungs for the entire block, providing fresh air for residents. Gray water cisterns collect run-off from the roofs while permeable surfacing and bioswales in the courtyard filter runoff water into the soil.
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design development
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single-family residence
2500 sqft
An abundance of mature oak trees form a canopy of light and shadow
over the site of a proposed private residence on Oakdale Drive, in Charleswood.
The clients expressed a strong desire to engage with nature,
focusing on the cyclical role of their own garden in the life of the
house, and the transitional presence of extended family members who
occupy rooms in the house for brief periods of time.
The design is distilled into three basic components: the mirror-faced
garage/greenhouse that disappears into the surrounding and reflected
foliage; the private quarters expressed as an elevated, weighty mass of
the second floor; and the glazed transparent living spaces that are left
between the ground plane and the mass above. The living area is further
defined by the garage block that penetrates the glazed envelope creating
interior ‘solids’ in the otherwise open floor area.
The composition of the main elements on the site creates a an exterior
enclosure from the street and cradles the south-west facing private yard. |
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Charles hotel
Winnipeg, MB
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boutique hotel
40 000 sqft [55 rooms]
The Charles Hotel created within the historic St. Charles building in Winnipeg’s Exchange District will be the city’s first boutique hotel.
This heritage building has gone through many alterations since its inception in 1913, including a mezzanine addition into the double high grand lobby space.
The desire to remove the mezzanine and return the lobby to its former glory contradicted with fitting the financially necessary 50-60 guest rooms of the new boutique hotel onto the existing floors.
The design solution was to keep the mezzanine as a guest room floor and to extend the lobby area into the otherwise underused basement.
The two-level sunken public lobby and restaurant area, connected with bridges over the business centre below, and the reception desk, housed in a suspended sphere in the middle of the open lobby, create a visually rich and intriguing interior landscape.
A play between the turn of the century brick exterior and the highly articulated interior is evident on the facade as the previously altered grade level will be re-interpreted as continuous metal surface with incisions and openings into the building and over the parking areas beyond. |
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The SK8 kiosk was developed in conjuction with the new skateboard park at
the Forks in downtown Winnipeg. Developed for two clients, the Forks and
the SK8 skateboard store, the venue was to be both temporary and seasonal.
The project consists of two phases, the open-air kiosk and the enclosed
storage and repair shop.
The phase I kiosk began as a simple exercise to create a
structure that could be disassembled and would require a minimal amount of
connections during its erection. While all of the components for the
structure are custom manufactured, the play of creating volume and
enclosure from the modular and easy-to-manufacture pieces remain evident
in the final product. The 1/4” thick, one foot wide aluminum plates create a simple interlocking egg
crate structure that has enough strength to span as a roof or a
wall, but also to function as shelving for the store merchandise. The enclosed volume is metaphorically ‘pulled
apart’ to allow for access points into the 12’ x 16’ kiosk.
The phase II structure acts as a companion piece to the original frame.
The one foot module continues, but the aluminum structure is now expressed
on the inside and clad with cellular plastic panels on three of its
exterior faces. |
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The Victoria Crescent site encompasses two former river lots in
one 100 foot x 400 foot heavily treed parcel on the Red River.
The original residence on the site was built circa 1920, but
its form had been long lost under layers of modifications,
additions and tacked on porches and decks.
The essence of the old house, not its actual presence,
becomes the centre of the new residence, as the original
foundation is preserved as a sunken courtyard. It turns
the former spatial arrangement inside out: house to
courtyard, yard to house, solid to void, void to solid. This
shift allows the ghost of the old house to remain.
The courtyard expands the visual space beyond the
distinct rooms and creates a nexus around which
circulation spirals in three dimensions.
A bridge links the carport to the main entry across the sunken courtyard - taking one over and through the void into the house. A hidden panoramic view of the river beyond is revealed upon entering the vaulted hall, further connecting the landscape to the interior. |
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Radulovic | Hurme
Completed 2006
$0.2M
Loft Condos [2 units]
2900 sqft
Award of Excellence [PDA 2006]
Twin condominiums occupy the south side of the 5th floor in the
historic Travellers Building in Winnipeg’s Exchange District.The
1800 sq ft & 1100 sq ft dwellings were designed and
constructed as a pair from their inception to completion. They
share a conceptual approach and attitude to detailing, while
exhibiting unique qualities and personalities responding to the
residents’ priorities.
The projects attempt to carve contemporary dwellings into
heritage building by means of preserving and respecting the
building’s historic fabric while contrasting it with the minimalist
modern interiors.
Each condominium flows freely around the enclosed functions
organized at their centres, leaving the exterior walls free of
joining partitions. Zones within are separated for visual privacy by
procession sequences from one scale to another.
Mezzanines expand the floor space and allow for intimacy in the
14-foot high space. The spaces are rendered with the essential
textures of their materials, while touches of decadence and luxury
add a twinkle to the restrained interiors. |
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