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Don Montgomery Community Centre
Don Montgomery Community Centre
2467, Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Canada
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Don Montgomery Community Centre
2467, Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Canada
Firm
YEAR
2011
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
This project is the result of a co-operative design process involving
youth in the ‘happy marriage’ of an underutilized facility and a group
needing space.
This adaptive reuse project presents a design solution to convert a
former indoor rifle range into a new multi-purpose youth-focused space
at the Don Montgomery Community Centre (DMCC) for the City of Toronto,
Parks Forestry and Recreation.
Upon arrival to the DMCC, the existing sloped roof building appears
as a closed and isolated add on having no relationship or communication
with the surrounding context; turning its back on the community;
isolated and closed. The project proposes to create an open and
welcoming environment, integrating the Youth Centre with its
surroundings and community by carving out windows in the box, in bold
fragmented shapes, to reflect the dynamic distribution of the interior
space. Transparency is provided for the community as light is brought
in during the day and in the evening the glowing window forms act as
beacons of light.
The interior space is a play of light and colour in a seeming random
delineation of walls and fins to produce what the design team referred
to as a “pick-up sticks” design.
The design of the Youth Centre was an exercise in juxtapositions -
security and independence; identity and integration; transparency and
confidentiality. Transparency, security and integration being the
important elements for the Youth Centre to function successfully within
the existing Don Montgomery Community Centre and the larger surrounding
community.
youth in the ‘happy marriage’ of an underutilized facility and a group
needing space.
This adaptive reuse project presents a design solution to convert a
former indoor rifle range into a new multi-purpose youth-focused space
at the Don Montgomery Community Centre (DMCC) for the City of Toronto,
Parks Forestry and Recreation.
Upon arrival to the DMCC, the existing sloped roof building appears
as a closed and isolated add on having no relationship or communication
with the surrounding context; turning its back on the community;
isolated and closed. The project proposes to create an open and
welcoming environment, integrating the Youth Centre with its
surroundings and community by carving out windows in the box, in bold
fragmented shapes, to reflect the dynamic distribution of the interior
space. Transparency is provided for the community as light is brought
in during the day and in the evening the glowing window forms act as
beacons of light.
The interior space is a play of light and colour in a seeming random
delineation of walls and fins to produce what the design team referred
to as a “pick-up sticks” design.
The design of the Youth Centre was an exercise in juxtapositions -
security and independence; identity and integration; transparency and
confidentiality. Transparency, security and integration being the
important elements for the Youth Centre to function successfully within
the existing Don Montgomery Community Centre and the larger surrounding
community.
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