JUNE 2011 - DECEMBER 2012
An Invitation to Create
An exhibition of student work from the Waterloo School of Architecture
No.9 presented 13 panels by architecture students from the University of Waterloo’s 3rd year course, Creative Instincts and Architectural Imagination. Each panel depicts a student’s vision for the transformation of the Toronto Island Airport into a public leisure and outdoor space.
As Toronto’s population grows the islands’ potential to serve as a much-needed space for outdoor leisure activity also increases. The student projects displayed in this exhibition propose that there is an opportunity to strengthen Toronto’s core by providing refuge for busy urban lives with easily accessible recreational, outdoor, and agricultural zones. Although the majority of projects focus on the reclamation of the Toronto Island Airport, the project itself suggests the potential of a re-imagined vision for the entire Toronto waterfront. Such a vision would ease the inevitable densification of the urban core, and allow the development of more sustainable and more efficient patterns of settlement.