Download - Tyler Bradt Portfolio 2013

Tyler Allen Bradt

Scale & Progress

2012/13 University of Toronto / Evergreen Brickworks

2011ECA / Barton Willmore / University of Toronto

2010HOK / Edinburgh College of Art [ECA]

Projects

Hawar Island Resort MPSerial Vision _ Royal Mile

Analysis of Bristo & George SquaresDry Stone Wall Analysis

Sculptural Space for ‘Untitled (pair)’Saunders Street Community Garden

Jewel & Esk Campus Landscape PlanMedieval & Moorish Gardens @ Hariot-Watt

Hailes Quarry Nature ParkPerspectives for Portobello Development

Shifting Priorities/Shifting TopographyRoad-diet Plan for Lakeshore

ESA Plan for the Coves, LondonAlexandra Park Market Street

Mercury Contamination Remediation DesignInterpreting Site through Landscape

Perpetual Architecture for those in NeedSudbury Railyards Remediation Plan

Hyacinth Power in the BayouEast Show Garden

Drawing Virgin Atlantic Lounge Wall by SHoPSalix StructuraFree Tree City

The New Urban Cemetery Thesis PrepHabitaT.O. {greenline competition}

Three Urban Cemeteries {MLA Thesis}

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2012 - 4 WeeksUniversity of Toronto

The objective of the Urban Site Technology course at the Uni-versity of Toronto was to de-sign a wall in detail. My inspira-tion was drawn from espaliered trees and Native trail markers. My wall, is not built, but grown over a period of three years. Wil-low whips are planted and pulled by biodegradable twine as they grow. The natural tension of the plant and it’s tendency to grow upwards towards the sun is ex-ploited and an amorphous wave form is the resulting structure. In the first iteration, a deck is built with predetermined notch points and predetermined twine lengths and angles. This results in a relatively specific form. The real beauty will result from he nature of the material though, the plant’s ability to adapt to environmental changes. The fi-nal form will be one that is obvi-ously constructed by the hands of man, with only subtle markers on the ground to provide hints as to how the shape arose.

SASSALIXSTRUCTURA

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Salix structuraTyler Bradt

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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC _ 1:20

YEAR 1 _ 1:20

YEAR 3 _ 1:20

YEAR 2 _ 1:20

TWINE VECTORS


Materials _ Salix petiolaris [Meadow Willow] _ Meadow Willow is a native species that is fast growing, flexible, strong, and not overly large. It grows 1 or more metres per year on average to a height of between 3 and 8 metres total.

Strategy _ willow structures are becoming common features of childrens play areas in the form of woven tunnels. I’m inspired by this as well as native trail mark-ers throughout North America, Espaliered fruit trees in the Netherlands, and the grown root bridges of Cherra-punji in India. A true living wall, this is grown entirely with the aid of biodegradable twine tied and pulled at spe-cific vectors to create an amorphous wall formed from living trees.

The anchors where twine vectors were once placed remain in the ground as a scar of production. A clue as to how this wall came to be.

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SECTION B-B _ 1:50PLAN _ 1:50

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UNIT PLAN _ 1:50

UNIT SECTION A-A_ 1:50

UNIT AXONOMETRIC _ 1:50

Planting 1 year growth 2 year growth 3 year growth

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2” steel keyhole hangar

biodegradable twine knotted at end

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2.2843.1074.818

10.5822.545

7.8054.207

2.8902.2081.7901.508

1.3041.1501.0270.9310.8420.7690.703

2.7642.8723.0213.228

3.5213.9474.593

10.455

7.5206.0375.166

4.6074.2293.9653.777

3.6423.5463.4803.436

3.2543.3683.5073.6823.9044.1934.5795.115

5.8997.1347.0255.5014.6124.0523.684

3.4373.2693.1553.080

53°49°45°40°35°30°25°

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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC _ 1:20

YEAR 1 _ 1:20

YEAR 3 _ 1:20

YEAR 2 _ 1:20

TWINE VECTORS


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AGGRESSIVE ROOTSwillows should be planted 10m away from building foundations or pipes

MAINTENANCEPruning of shoots and suckers required twice annually

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AXONOMETRIC _ 1:20

FLEXIBILITY over TIME _ 1:20

ELEVATION _ 1:50

GROWTH AXONOMETRIC

GROWTH TENDENCY TOWARDS SUN

Alternative Production Method

As a more affordable, more flexible alternative, the coded deck is removed and the willows are shaped as the builder sees fit. Twine is tied to rebar that is hammered into the ground. These can be colour coded based on phases or can be left ambiguous. They can remain, they can be removed. The final form is less rigid and determined and will be left up to the one who constructs the wall.

A few simple rules of thumb exist for DIY con-struction including the potential flexibility over time of each tree as well as a scheduled main-tenance regime.

2012 - 2 WeeksEvergreen Brickworks to be constructed Spring 2013

The garden located near the eastern parkinglot at the Ever-green Brickworks is in what was not forseen as a prominent en-trance to the site, yet is now the gateway for many major events. With this in mind, I was asked to redesign the garden within a tight budget. Of three proposals, the concept selected was that of a showcase garden, whereby a piece of the Brickworks industri-al heritage in the form of an old machine, is displayed outside of the buildings. This machine is the cetrepoint of a red-orange-yel-low planting scheme that hints upon the fire and heat that fu-eled the Brickworks and the City of Toronto. An earth-bag wall stabilizes a small hill and allows space for reclaimed barn beam benches along the edge near-est the kilns building, allowing events to spill out into the sum-mer night air.

ESGEASTSHOW

GARDEN

2010/11 - 13 WeeksEdinburgh College of Art

Completed as part of the Detail Design course at ECA, this project evolved from conceptual design to a set of tender drawings. My design incorporated a terraced community garden into a 5m level change between the build-ings of a residential complex in Stockbridge. Using natural and local materials and construction methods was the emphasis of my research and design. The de-sign feature is a set of drystone retaining walls that are bound around a zig-zagging staircase. The project involved research of materials, construction methods, and presentation styles.

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COMMUNITY GARDEN

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1. Community allotments x 20 2. Existing turf3. Existing paving 4. Existing private garden5. Existing building6. Cantilevered seating - caithness, riven, width and angle cut to fit on-site, self- supporting cantilever as part of dry stone construction 7. Cobble edge - reclaimed sets8. Gravel path - 4-6 mm aggregate9. Cope stone x 452 - sandstone, rough cut, cut to fit on-site,adhered to drystone wall with lime mortar 10. Rammed earth wall11. Gravel drainage - DoT Type 212. Freestanding drystone wall - caithness, riven, Avg. stone size 600 x 250 x 50, to be constructed under supervision of drystone wall professional after steps are in place such that the wall is built around the concrete structure13. Earth brick dome shelter14. ACO rain drain pro x 10 - iron grate, 1000 x 115 x 17515. Sandstone step x 35 - single piece, rough cut, custom cut with void for instal- lation of lighting element 16. Handrail - bespoke polished stainless steel17. Sandstone paving slabs - see Sheet 3 Detail A18. Wildflower meadow planting 19. Pyrus communis20. Communal bramble planting21. Caithness cladding - drystone face covering existing concrete retaining wall, same construction technique as free standing dryston walls (#12), supported by Ancon wall ties (*see #22), wall to be constructed over top of existing concrete sidewalk to form a more natural seam and take on appearance of other true dry stone retaining walls in plan22. Ancon wall ties - Type 4 light duty ties placed at density of 2.5 ties / m223. Existing concrete retaining wall24. Sharp sand 25. Compacted DoT Type 1 gravel 26. Light fixture - Hess Ferox 27. Concrete form - pre-cast concrete base for stairs, placed on site prior to construc tion of any retaining walls.28. 100mm perforated drainage pipe29. Concrete kerb edge30. Steel guy wires31. Mulch32. Wooden Tree Stakes33. Recycled plastic edging34. Steel pin35. Deadman stone - tie the wall to the soil36. Header stones - at 2 levels 37. Caithness rubble fill38. Reinforcing mesh39. Geotextile

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Cemeteries in North America are all more or less the same. they follow the garden cemetery model introduced in 1831. My graduate thesis explored three designs for new urban cemetery typologies. The exploration re-volved around ideas of choice, space, and memorial. The sites were drawn from typical ur-ban leftovers, common to many North American cities: an alley, a highway offramp, and a disused railroad bridge. Each site acco-modates a different method of “departure”. A highly urban alley accommodates cremation along with preservation or decomposi-tion through incorporating the ashes into the layers of a ce-ment wall, or provides a launch point for ash-filled balloons to be released. An urban offramp provides a spiraling space lined with burial niches, descending into the ground with floriogra-phy to aid as place markers. A rail bridge provides a cyclical decomposition process using grasses to both break down the body and phytoremediate con-taminated soils.

3UCTHREEURBAN

CEMETERIES

scale: 1:200 N scale: 1:500 N scale: 1:1000 N

Departures 1 & 2airborne dispersion & structural eternityEuclid Ave. at Queen Street East

1. Record a story or message

2. Deceased is brought to chapel

3. After ceremony, deceased is lowered into resomation room

4. Resomation process up to 3 bodies/day

5.1. Ashes mixed into concrete

6.1. Layers are built up as cemetery grows older

8. Contemplation Shelters

playback of stories

6.2. + GPS - release from platformup to 3 day drift

7. Deposition pattern keepsake

5.2. Ashes divided among helium balloons

ashes

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Departures 1 & 2airborne dispersion & structural eternityEuclid Ave. at Queen Street East

1. Record a story or message

2. Deceased is brought to chapel

3. After ceremony, deceased is lowered into resomation room

4. Resomation process up to 3 bodies/day

5.1. Ashes mixed with concrete

6.1. Layers are built up as cemetery grows older

8. Contemplation Shelters

playback of stories

6.2. + GPS - release from platformup to 3 day drift

7. Deposition pattern keepsake

5.2. Ashes divided among helium balloons

ashes

aggragate

ashesweigh

2.5 to 9.6 lbs

3 to 9balloons

sand

cement/water

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20%

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Departure 3subterranean dross Gardiner Expressway offramp at York Street

1. Deceased brought to mortuary/chapel

2. Funeral procession down ramp

3. Deceased intered in burial niche

4. Niche sealed with concrete... 4.1 Niches rented on 25 yr intervals

5. ...& capped with simple marker

6. Contemplation shelters between nichescontain further epitaph

7.1 Plant selectiondrawn from

17th centuryfloriography

7. Visitors locate niches based on planting and planter heights

Departure 3subterranean dross Gardiner Expressway offramp at York Street

bog rosemary/remembrance

common yarrow/healing

common cinquefoil/beloved child

ferns/sincerity

yew/sorrow

moss/maternal love

new england aster/love

white cedar/mourning

wild mint/virtue

1. Deceased brought to mortuary/chapel

2. Funeral procession down ramp

3. Deceased interred in burial niche

4. Niche sealed with concrete... 4.1 Niches rented on 25 yr intervals

5. ...& capped with simple marker

6. Contemplation shelters between nichescontain further epitaph

7.1 Plant selectiondrawn fromfloriography

7. Visitors locate niches based on planting and planter heights

Departure 4suspended decompositionDisused Rail Bridge across the Don Valley Parkway

1. Deceased brought to chapel

2.1 Small open air chapel

3.2 Deceased buried in nichewith contaminated soil

4. Planted with Andropogon gerardii& Sorghastrum nutans

Andropogon gerardii &Sorghastrum nutans

Deep and dense root systems that will remediate the

contaminated soil throughrhizofiltration

5.1 3 year cycle of remediation and decomposition

2.2 large indoor chapel

3.1 Contaminated soil from acrossthe city is collected

5.2 Deceased contributes nutrientsto the soil

6.1 Bones are disintered and placed in a personal ossuary

6.2 remediated soil is dispersed throughprojects around the city

7. Ossuarries combine between rails and a path extends from the cemetery

3m

magnesium

phosphorus

potassium

nitrogen

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Departure 4suspended decompositionAbandoned Rail Bridge across the Don Valley Parkway

1. Deceased brought to chapel

2.1 Small open air chapel

3.2 Deceased buried in concreteplot with contaminated soil

4. Planted with Andropogon gerardii& Sorghastrum nutans

Andropogon gerardii &Sorghastrum nutans

Deep and dense root systems that will remediate the

contaminated soil throughrhizofiltration

5.1 3 year cycle of remediation and decomposition

2.2 large indoor chapel

3.1 Contaminated soil from acrossthe city is collected

5.2 Deceased contributes nutrientsto the soil

6.1 Bones are disintered and placed in a personal ossuary

6.2 remediated soil is dispersed throughprojects around the city

7. Ossuarries combine between rails and a path extends from the cemetery

3m

magnesium

phosphorus

potassium

nitrogen

+ + +

2011 - 5 WeeksEdinburgh College of Art

Jewel & Esk College in Portobel-lo recently had an architectural makeover. Sadly, the landscape surrounding the buildings was not considered in the design process. The MLA1 class at ECA was asked to create designs for the campus including a full 1:500 scale master plan and a 1:200 detail area. The campus land-scape is windswept and barren of students. My concept for the project was driven by the need to create an outdoor gathering space that would also act as a wayfinding tool, bringing people to the centre of the campus. This was coupled with the history of the surrounding area, incorpo-rating hommages to the quarry industry into design details.

J&EJEWEL & ESK

COLLEGE LANDSCAPE

PLAN

Main Gathering Plaza

Problem Solution

Community Garden

Community Garden Entry Plaza


Alexandra Park is a social hous-ing development from the 1960’s nestled between 3 of Toronto’s most popular shopping districts; Kensington Market, Chinatown, and Queen Street West. As is the case with so many housing developments of the time, the area has become prone to van-dalism and crime. This develop-ment proposal seeks to bring life into this enclosed community by joining the three major shop-ping districts through a sinuous pedestrian street, an urban fea-ture that Toronto currently lacks aside from the upscale distill-ery district. Overlapping circles intersect to create the form of the pedestrian space resulting in narrow corridors and broad plazas. Community activators can be introduced into the pla-zas. Behind this community area, flexible development blocks al-low for organic development over time.

APMALEXANDRA PARK

MARKET STREET

Masterplan

2011 - 5 WeeksEdinburgh College of Art

Hailes Quarry Park is one of many Edinburgh stone quarries that was repurposed as a land fill in the 1970’s. As such, the existing conditions are poor soil with bad drainage, covered in turf and some small patches of stunted trees. At 15 hectares, the site’s size provides an opportunity for a major urban habitat patch with connections to the nearby Water of Leith and Union Canal wildlife corridors. Through strategic re-mediation, the site can become a new form of zoo, where people can see and learn about native species in their natural environ-ments. A space where people can begin to break away from the ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ mentality that human beings have with the natural en-vironment. The design includes an education centre, seasonal ponds, a bmx track, sculptural bat boxes, a bird-watching plat-form, and a community centre

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PARK

2013 - 3 DaysUniversity of Toronto

The 2013 Greenline design com-petition called for entries to imagine the possibilities for a strip of land that taverses an east-west path through mid-Toronto. This fragmented corri-dor appears to be made up of leftover spaces resulting from incompatible land uses and ad-jacencies - residential, industrial, and commercial uses colliding around a still active rail corridor and hydro corridor.

Our entry noted the corridors location as a perfect opportu-nity to connect the Huber River Valley to the Don River Valley, thereby creating a greater eco-logical connection through the city. community and recreational uses such as urban campground and basketball courts punctuate a denseley planted corridor of varying ecological zones creat-ing a new design typology, an

“urban wilderness”.

HTOHabitaT.O.

canopy + water

active recreation

circulation + movement

blocks + streets

Gray Birch 12m

Coyote

Fox

Mason Bee

Tree Sparrow

Turtle Dove

American Red Squirrel

Downy Woodpecker

American Widgeon

Blue Jay

Broad Winged Hawk

American Goldfinch

BatGreat Blue Heron

Indian Grass 2.5m RabbitElderberry 3.5m

Great Blue Lobelia 1m

Raspberry 1.5m

RaccoonFour-lined Leaf Bug

BullfrogMonarch Butterfly

Blanding’s Turtle

Robin

Meadow Vole

Yellow Birch 12m

Sassafras 15m

Eastern Redbud 12m

Dotted Hawthorn 12m

Hemlock 20mIronwood 10m

Red Maple 18m

Chokecherry 7m

Red Cedar 10m

Alternate Leaf Dogwood 8m

Staghorn Sumac 12m

Golden Alexander 0.75m

Canada Goldenrod 1m

Wild Grape 10m

Highbush Cranberry 4m

Blue Vervain 1.5m

New England Aster 2m

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FOREST EDGE WOODLAND

Community Agriculture on Roofs

Ties forRigidity inhurricanes

Stacked Growhouse

Sludge to roofs as

fertilizer

ConcreteHyacinthCanal

Harvested Hyacinth Storage

Biogas Detention

Silo

Anaerobic Digester

Research/Science

Residency

Electricity Generation

Hyacinth Collection


St. Bernard Parish is located just south of the City of New Orleans. A mostly rural area that sits pre-cariously between the Mississip-pi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Many know of the flooding issues associated with the area. I chose to tackle an issue associated with flood infrastructure - spe-cifically canals. All of which are full of invasive water hyacinth, a water species that until now, has evaded all efforts at eradication. A hyacinth research centre and production centre explores the potential of the plant for manu-facturing and energy produc-tion. The space is developed over time beginning with use of existing plants throughout the region and building to specific growing canals, and expanding to stacked growing houses.

HPBHYACINTH POWERIN THE BAYOU

Community Agriculture on Roofs

Ties forRigidity inhurricanes

Stacked Growhouse

Sludge to roofs as

fertilizer

ConcreteHyacinthCanal

Harvested Hyacinth Storage

Biogas Detention

Silo

Anaerobic Digester

Research/Science

Residency

Electricity Generation

Hyacinth Collection

2010 - 24 WeeksHOK

During employment with the To-ronto office of the HOK Planning Group, I worked with the team who developed a masterplan for a new Eco-Resort community on Hawaar Island off the south coast of Bahrain in the middle east. The Heritage and environmen-tal factors were major issues as the country has hopes of estab-lishing the island as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to envi-ronmental importance. A self-suf-ficient resort plan was designed which included the development of artificial islands. My task was to design these islands as well as participate in conceptual devel-opment of other aspects of the plan, conduct research, and cre-ate presentations. Completed as part of a design team with Diana Tiron, Jordan Lambie, Andy Wis-niewski, and Natalia Lopes.

HIRHAWAR ISLAND

RESORT

Interlocking building masses

Horizontal division of vertical mass

Vertical elements create slender appearance

Large overhangs and terraces create

horizontal layers

Long flat and wide shading elements add

shadow relief

Special massing elements mark major nodes

and town centres

Opening in street wall

Back yards open to waterfront promenade

Articulate openings in active street walls

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Free Tree City transforms a most-ly empty hydro corridor into a ecological and community en-titiy that benefits the entire City of Toronto. The space assumes the program of a tree nursery, more vaired and forward think-ing than traditional practice. The space is divided into seven zones . Residents of the city can pick and chose trees for their yard free of charge. Special orders can also be made for a small fee. Resrach is conducted in the realm of bioengineering. Sports fields are surrounded by ecol-ogy based community centres. Natural corridors are enhanced and expanded. All of these uses inform the design of the corridor as they traverse is length. The project is economically sound, funded through a combinations of Section 37 funds, a city-wide carbon tax, and charitable do-nations.

FTCFREETREECITY

“My daughter and I want a new tree in the backyard to commemorate her 5th birthday. Driving in there are different trees lining the street. ‘I like that one,’ my daughter says pointing to a tree with sheening white bark. We first go to the information kiosk and I type white bark. A paper birch. The system says that this birch tolerates flooding and doesn’t get anywhere near the size of a big oak. Good. We travel through the neatly spaced aisles. Here and there is an empty hole in the ground where another family took their favourite tree. I can see the irrigation system peeking through at the bottom. We find our perfect birch tree. It is easy for me to lift out of the ground by myself and place it on our cart. As we walk back towards the street, my daughter races across an aisle to one of the giant towers that peer over the area. We climb the stairs and take in the view from the top. It is amazing how vast this new nursery is. A neatly arranged forest stretches on for many kilometres and far off in the distance I can see the CN Tower.”

“My daughter and I want a new tree in the backyard to commemorate her 5th birthday. Driving in there are different trees lining the street. ‘I like that one,’ my daughter says pointing to a tree with sheening white bark. We first go to the information kiosk and I type white bark. A paper birch. The system says that this birch tolerates flooding and doesn’t get anywhere near the size of a big oak. Good. We travel through the neatly spaced aisles. Here and there is an empty hole in the ground where another family took their favourite tree. I can see the irrigation system peeking through at the bottom. We find our perfect birch tree. It is easy for me to lift out of the ground by myself and place it on our cart. As we walk back towards the street, my daughter races across an aisle to one of the giant towers that peer over the area. We climb the stairs and take in the view from the top. It is amazing how vast this new nursery is. A neatly arranged forest stretches on for many kilometres and far off in the distance I can see the CN Tower.”

U-Pick

Ecological Transition

Education / Demonstration

Electric Trees

Tyler Allen Bradt, BES, DipLAt: 647-774-5547

e: [email protected]

The landscape is what we make of it. It is unlimited. It is between the buildings, it is among the trees. It pierces facades and follows infrastructure. It is urban and rural. It is social. It is ecological. It is forever connected to itself and everything it encounters in space and time. My job is to make clear and layer these relationships in order to enhance the space that surrounds us. Each project is unique and each design solution is drawn from the specific circumstances of site and time. Every design, whether urban, rural, infrastructural, or community oriented, will affect the future positively and amplify our quality of life. Every design will be ecologically beneficial. Every design will be timeless.

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