ARCHIPELAGO THESIS (MUD)
AZAR
MALIK
PORTFOLIO SELECTED
PROJECTS
2000-2014
“The Generic City is on its way from horizontality to verticality. The skyscraper looks as if it will be the final, definitive typology. It has swallowed everything else. It can exist anywhere: in a rice field, or downtown - it makes no difference anymore. The towers no longer stand together; they are spaced so that they don't interact. Density in isolation is the ideal.� S, M, L, XL REM Koolhaas, Bruce Mau
ARCHIPELAGO
ARCHIPELAGO
Consolidating the Invisible Centres
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO, CANADA THESIS
MEDIUM DENSITY DEVELOPMENT
Location Site Area
Ontario, Canada City of Mississauga
Design Concept Mississauga is a planned post-world war II suburban development. Despite the fact that Mississauga was conceived as a residential suburban development, it emerged as one of the fastest growing global cities in North America. Large industrial zones, big-box commercial centres, and vast expanses of single-family houses give a peculiar character to the city of Mississauga. These are the very ingredients of suburban developments which perform well in a megalopolis. The thesis topic is inspired by the city of Mississauga’s endeavours to revitalize its city centre. The goals set by the city of Mississauga are the precursors of the city’s desire to create a character by inducing an ultra-urban island in an ocean of sprawl. Perhaps the solution to building character lies in shifting the paradigm, realizing the fact that people move to suburbs for a preferred lifestyle. It is this relationship that irrigates the symbiosis between urban and suburban developments regardless of the need for a political city centre. This thesis attempts to equally distribute development efforts all over Mississauga rather than exhaust urban notions of walkability, fine-grain grid, and density in a political city centre, an effort that will only lead to further alienating the centre from its surroundings. The thesis capitalizes on the active ingredients of the urban/suburban aggregate of the city of Mississauga through various studies and an analysis of its physical and conceptual layers. This exploration finally orchestrates urban design interventions in select locations to consolidate the archipelago of centres.
Above : Proposed public spaces Overleaf : Figure Ground of a Slice of Mississauga including Hurontario Corridor
Townhouses
600
Storage
Franchised Stores/outlets
Parking Lots with office
500
Single Family Units
Distribution / Warehouse
Residential Thomas Kennedy School 700
650
COOKSVILLE STATION (Train Station, Medium Density Residential, Retail, Offices)
BUSINESS CENTRE (Corporate Offices + Warehouses/Distribution + Retail)
Private Parking / Docking
650
Winston Churchill Boulevard
650
Community Park and other amenities
Derry Road
800 600
EMPLOYMENT UNITS (Manufacturing, Assembling, Warehouse, Office) LABYRINTH (Typical Single Family Units)
Study of Built Form
Airport Industrial
Industrial + Offices
Corporate Offices
Residential
Residential Towers (Apartments / Condos)
Retail + Offices + Residential
Retail + Industry+ Warehouse
Retail + Offices
Industrial Manufacturing, Assembling, Offices, Warehouse
Residential Single Famiy Units, Condomini-
Residential Condominiums Apartments
Lake Ontario
Boulevard Lakeshore
Elizab
Commercial Retail, Offices, Institutions, Community, Residential
Queen
Commercial Retail, Offices, Institutions, Community,
Commercial Retail, Offices, Institutions, Community, Queensway
Residential (Apartments, Condominiums, Town Houses, Single Family Units) y 403 Highwa
Hurontario Corridor
High way
401
Industrial Manufacturing, Assembling,
ay eth W
Brampton
60
Hydro Park Landscape
Hurontario North Industrial Zone
Hurontario and Matheson Street
Hurontario and Eglinton Avenue
Mixed Use Node Retail, Offices and Industrial
Retail, Offices
Retail, Offices, Residential
Development Strategy
City Centre Precinct Retail, Offices, Residential
Hurontario Street South Medium Density with more employment opportunities
Cooksville Retail, Offices, Residential
Residential Precinct High Rise as watch towers
Port Credit Linking history and cultural events
Programs Offices Light Manufacturing Shared Parking (above grade)
Programs Residential Offices Parking (below grade) Street Parking
Programs Residential Parking (below grade) Street Parking
Programs Offices Shared Parking (below grade) Street Parking
Programs Big Box Retail Parking (below grade) Roof Garden
Manufacturing + Offices + Storage (Inner Building Envelops)
Programs Big Box Retail Amenities Parking (below grade) Roof Garden
Proposed Building Typologies
Site Plan
Ravine Public Space Trail Habitat
Residential Single Family Units
Hydro Park
Hurontario / John
Dundas St W
Hillcrest Ave.
Hurontario Street LRT
Hillcrest Avenue
Hillcrest Avenue Residential (existing)
Confederation Pkwy
Section (Through Cooksville Proposed Development) Dundas Square - Light rapid Transit
Residential
Dundas St W
Residential Single Family Units Townhouses (existing)
Section (Hurontario Street / Eglinton Avenue) Cooksville Station Precinct Development
Hurontario / John Street
Hurontario Street LRT
Hillcrest Avenue
Hillcrest Avenue Residential (existing)