Proposed CWTTT Neighborhood House
vancouver, bc
1999
The site is located at the south end of a multi family zoning strips that runs along Joyce Street. To the south of the site lies a mixed used commercial zoning strip that ends at Vanness Street. Our design proposes for a 2-storey high building that will accommodate up to 150 people, with a one level underground parking garage, is listed as a conditional approval use. The first floor will house a reception area, an office and a stair at the front, with a meeting room, a dining hall and a kitchen at the back. The second floor will house a reading room at the front with an altar and a large lecture hall at the back. Clerestory window is provided in the altar and lecture room to bring in natural light and to provide privacy to neighbors at the same time. The rest will be support and service facilities. The underground parking garage will have a bicycle room with changing and shower facilities. Vehicular access to the underground parking garage is from Joyce Street at the southwest corner of the site, as a result of the existing topography and the location of driveway in north adjacent site. The vehicular access will be softened with trellis canopy above and landscaped curbs on both sides. The north sculpture garden and the south private garden, each with a distinct character and identity, will also act as buffer zones for noise and be viewed by neighbors above.
Volumetrically, the building can be seen as two volumetric masses interlocking each other. The volume that fronts Joyce Street houses the more public and service orientated space and will be clad with smaller size, split face concrete bricks, to give a better scale related to the street, while the rear portion that houses the more secular and assembly type of space will be clad with larger size, color, smooth faced, architectural concrete blocks that relates to the taller structure. Both will be lined with decorative courses of bricks of contrasting texture at various datum such as floor slab and sill level, create an interesting pattern to the surface. The light and darker colored masonry is intended to provide a dialogue with the cladding of north and south adjacent building. The use of the masonry also provides better acoustical performance and weather protection for the envelope, and is itself a low maintenance material. The metal roof tile, besides its aesthetics compatibility, has a better fire classification, quality and longer life span than asphalt shingles and other similar. A two-storey high storefront window system at the front entry addresses the vertical circulation behind. Combination of tinted and opaque glass will be used.
Note: scope of work: schematic design, design development, development permit, board of variance only:
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