Senior Projects
make a difference
“Make a Difference” is a project that will focus on the homeless community and their need to better their lives. The community project will be working together with non-profit organizations to aid in funding and not only will provide them with a mobile tiny home but also help in employment that specifically gives back to the community.
Mother's Haven - Therapeutic Community Center for Recent Mother's
Mother’s Haven therapeutic community Center , hopes to prevent mental illness like postpartum depression by creating a resourceful and healing environment that includes different spatial facilities such as daycare, physician, therapist , and multi-functional room, in order to achieve the long term goal of happiness.
Group Home for Young Adults with Fetal Alcohol spectrum disorders
The Hub group home is designed to help young adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders transition into adulthood. A secure space filled with natural elements, neutral colours, traditional style, and sensory-aware considerations will help the users with mood regulation processes and allow them to adapt to their new independent lives.
Lotus Art Center
The Lotus Arts Centre is a community arts center that brings delight felicity to adults who lost out on art. The center in Toronto fosters animation, graphic design, cinema, interior design, and ceramics. The center helps people rediscover happiness via art. The Lotus Arts Centre's volunteers inspire the community and provide inspiration and happiness via the arts.
Multigenerational Vacation home
Project Point of View, a renovation to a waterfront residential property, implements a transitional design style and approach to fulfill the needs of a multigenerational family through a vacation.
House to Home long-term care
Due to our rising aging population the need for long-term care homes is exponential, the concept is to be able to adapt an existing building into a long-term care home that focuses on the needs of patients, staff and family. The challenge is to test if an existing building can be adapted to meet and/or exceed the current Long-Term Care Design Guidelines.
Reshaping Canadian Military Housing
Concept This senior project intends to reshape Canadian Military Housing to enhance contemporary families' adaptability and unique lifestyles. The homes are tailored to the needs and desires of the residents, allowing them to feel in control of their home and to integrate smoothly.
Cumulus Meditation Studio
Cumulus Mediation Studio provides an emotional shelter that allows users to escape from the fast-paced and technology-driven world through meditation by creating an atmosphere of peace and tranquility. The overall design aims to provide a warm and welcoming environment that invites users to reflect and rejuvenate.
Engaging Learning Spaces
The Algonquin College ACCE Building is a showcase for innovative learning. However, the current Bachelor of Interior Design classrooms do not reflect the program or the ACCE building's core values. The existing spaces will be adapted to reflect the brand and culture of the program into collaborative engaging learning spaces with innovative and forward-thinking in mind.
Fortitude
Fortitude is a 32,000 sq. ft. outpatient oncology center located in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The goal of this space is not only to provide crucial medical services that are currently lacking in Fort McMurray but also to create a space that mentally, physically, and spiritually supports patients, their guests, and healthcare providers, creating a salubrious space for all user groups.
Arabian-Themed Restaurant
My project is an Arabian-themed restaurant that is designed to physically translate a tale. That tale is called "1,001 Nights." The restaurant encompasses Arabian history, including textile colors, wall cladding, Islamic arches, and many elements of the historic Arabian courtyard houses.
The restaurant is not your typical dining and conversing experience. It’s a dining experience, and a story-telling experience where people get to go into this Arabian lounging space and have the story of 1,001 Nights narrated to them. Incorporating the element of story-telling into the space was very important to me in order to revive the element of gathering and story-telling.
The Aura Coworking Space for WOC
Concept The Aura is going to be a coworking space for women of colour based in Toronto's Financial District, a very male-dominated part of the city. In this space, we will be providing a training center for newly immigrated women, collaboration spaces for sharing knowledge as well as many meeting rooms and a couple of individual spaces.
Inversion Work/Life Apartments
Inversion is an apartment complex designed for visual artists, from painters to
model makers to graphic designers. Each user will have full control of their workspace and
allow each user to express themselves in any room they walk into. Inversion is designed to
help artists express themselves, whether that’s with their art, lighting, decoration or furniture
selection.
Regina Women's Correctional Facility
Concept An adapt and reuse project, retrofitting a school campus to a minimum security women’s prison that is designed for rehabilitation and second chances.
The Garden Home
The Garden Home, a home that nourishes our mind, body, and earth. This new built residence will emphasize the importance of human-nature connection through the implementation of integrated indoor/outdoor gardening methods to nourish our body, the 14 Biophilic Design Principles to nourish our mind, and the Living Building Challenge standards to nourish our earth.
Crafter Space
The project is a combination of makerspaces, a shared storefront, and affordable housing for artists with small businesses. Living in proximity to other artists will encourage them to collaborate, work, and live in a mentally and physically sustainable way.
Zen Box Fitness
ZEN BOX Fitness Studio is a commercial fitness studio that is fun, inclusive and welcoming for all genders and body types to pursue their fitness goals and connect with like-minded individuals. This fit-up project is located in Centre Town, Ottawa, at 275 Bank Street, a prime resi-mercial neighborhood in the Gay Village of Ottawa.
Sensory High School
Sensory High School is a retrofitting of the current New Stittsville High School located at 700 Cope Drive. The updated design takes the current well design floorplans and adds adaptable spaces for teachers and students to eliminate long daunting hallways. With the use of colour, texture, daylighting, natural scents, custom furniture and adaptable classrooms, the ideal sensory design will be achieved. This concept is missing in current school designs leaving students feeling drained, unproductive and lacking a sense of identity in their school..
Beyond Historical Preservation
Blakeney Farm, a non-designated historic home built in the 1840s, entails a renovation proposal that implements preservation methods to retain historical integrity. The structure's original quality and function will be enhanced through innovation and incentives while conforming to modern living standards.
Drift Supervised Injection Facility
Drift Supervised Injection Facility suggests that in order to reduce the negative stigma surrounding substance use, the built environment will explore how to establish community, acceptance, and empowerment while fostering positive social acceptance surrounding substance use disorder. Drift draws inspiration from neighbouring bodies of water surrounding Kelowna while referring to the idea of rivers being used as metaphors in the healing process of substance use disorder.
Tiny House Complex
The tiny house complex is a 48000 sq. ft mixed-use project aiming to create an affordable living for students and young professionals. This will be achieved by creating micro-apartments with communal spaces for the tenants, including communal kitchens on each floor, rec spaces, and a co-working space, all to create a community within the complex for the tenants to network, share ideas, and support one another.
Biblio-Tech
Biblio-Tech is a makerspace library in Barrhaven that addresses limited community spaces by providing resources and programming for personal development and community engagement. With a design philosophy centered around play, the makerspace encourages hands-on experimentation, collaboration, and sharing of knowledge. This pipeline space empowers individuals to turn their passions into projects, and promotes a supportive and inclusive community.
Afflatus, Language Learning Center
The objective is to design a space with a sense of openness and approachability, where people from all different backgrounds can fuse together and establish a supportive language learning environment.
Our desire is to showcase how an active alternative learning space can encourage people to master languages more effectively, while simultaneously placing pleasure and vivacity at the forefront of the language learning experience.
Nike LABZ School
NIKE LABZ is a postgraduate degree program designed for industrial design students to learn collaboration, communication, and integration skills. By creating a space that promotes movement and discussion through co-working spaces and hands-on work, innovation and creativity will grow along with their value as designers.
Fresh Start Society
Fresh Start Society aims to help people who are homeless and in need of mending by offering a place for recovery, education, and growth. Through design, we will create a welcoming, comfortable space where these people can feel safe, socialize, and feel like a part of the community.
Mechanicville's Printed Village
Mechanicville’s Printed Village is a small community comprised of 3D printed homes. With the steeply increasing housing market, 3D printed construction has become a viable means to truly affordable housing. The community I have designed utilizes this technology to create comfortable and unique housing while reducing overall construction costs substantially.
Hope
Hope is a support housing for male and families that experience domestic violence. The residents receive various amenities such as community kitchen, art studio, library. The housing helps father with children to start their lives again and find ways to support themselves while receiving mental support.
Funeral Center
Remodel of Kelly Funeral Home: The project will focus on the relationship between interior design and psychology, specifically designing spaces for expressing grief and loss.
The goal is to create functional memorial and commemorative spaces that provide comfort for mourners and reshape the way we say goodbye to the dead.
Info Center
This is a tourist information centre located near the Airport, serving as a hub for Terminal 3, the parking lot, and the bus station. The centre provides a range of services for tourists, including information and consultation services about destinations, attractions, transportation, food, and accommodation to lead them to visit various attractions.
Q.P. Center (Queer Pride Center)
At its core, the Q.P Centre is dedicated to bringing people together. Education and knowledge are provided to help the family of queer youth gain understanding, compassion, and commonality to aid in family adaptability. These themes are further established in the support of chosen family bonds formed within the queer community through mentorship to help queer youth through any potential difficulties they may be facing.
Travel Off The Grid
The ‘Travel Off The Grid’ project focuses on retrofitting an existing hotel into a luxurious sustainable boutique hotel experience. The project strips down traditional building norms and dives into sustainable approaches to renewable energy and healthy building standards to design a self-sufficient structure; while exploring the symbiotic relationship between human beings and nature.
Intergenerational Space "Cummer LoDge"
Cumulus Lodge Daycare offers preschool and adult day programs. This space aims to encourage intergenerational interaction and communication by sharing a portion of the common space. Through the design of the space, a platform is provided for them to share their skills and time. Chronic loneliness is very common among the elderly population. Through the design, it is hoped to help address this loneliness and improve the quality of life for a group of the elderly who are regularly isolated or socially isolated.