Toronto Hybrid Network
Fall 2018 / Internet Archive Studio with Prof. Thérèse Tierney / Teammates: Ali Gholamabbas
The project aims to revolutionize the paradigm of working by establishing a co-working community within an internet archive. There is a global rising trend in start-up and freelancing, which can be a great opportunity for Toronto to activate its waterfront with more economical growth. The abundant resources from the internet archive can be great assets for all the freelancers and entrepreneurs around Toronto.
Home is the ideal working environment for freelancers. By introducing the idea of a “home” into a public building and organizing its programs into five “rooms” (living room, bedroom, kitchen, dining room, garage), the space now has a new relationship with its users.
Home is the ideal working environment for freelancers. By introducing the idea of a “home” into a public building and organizing its programs into five “rooms” (living room, bedroom, kitchen, dining room, garage), the space now has a new relationship with its users.
The form of the building is a physical manifestation of internet, it is fragmented yet cohesive. The five rooms are linked by bridges to blur the program boundaries and also create a continuous and dynamic surface for the facade. The structural and glazing systems follow its massing to have a cohesive design language. The landscape is generated from both the topography of the site and the massing in order to be a continuum of the urban fabrics that sits between downtown Toronto and the rising Port Lands district.