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Northern Ontario School of Architecture / École d'architecture du Nord de l'Ontario

Stage 1

Daniele Rocchio, Ferdinando Mazza (Winner)

Dylan Sauer, Joe Smith (Second Prize)

Michael Blois, Sean MacLean, Jason Fung (third) (Third Prize)

Marcos Houssay, Leonardo Gabriel Borlenghi, Maria Florencia Patronis (Honourable mention)

Evgeniya Yatsyuk, Olga Yatsyuk (Honourable mention)

Kate Busby, Michael Thicke (Honourable mention)

Nicole LeBlanc (Honourable mention)

Jonathan Mandville, Lynden Giles

Steven Beites

Aleksandr Prusakov

Mahmoud Farduk Gabr Gabr Sheriff

Wilfred Mendoza

Alexander Ross Martinson, Benjamin Daniel McHugh

Andrew Moon, Anja Kronshage-Goodwin, Michal Golinski

Vibhuti (Vickie) Patel, David Borja, Shannon Carpenter

Hans A Schmidt, Michael C. Chappell, Maurice A. Smith

Stephen Lohr, Jeff Garnett, Albert Alverez

Elizabeth Bingenheimer, William McFarland, Amir Safvat

Daphnee Touloumis, Marc Labreque

Rachel Kluger-Weston, Samantha Punjala, Julian Lizarazu, Nina Azavedo

Chris Urner

Olha Romaniuk

Delphine Maumy

Simon Barrette

Josh Pickering

Jonathan Tardif, Guillaume Jacque

Eric Gellman

Oryst H Sawchuk, John Hamalainen, Edward Chiesa, William Fryer

David Giraldeau

Shohei Yokoyama

Craig England, Marianna De Cola

Arion Cavell Williams

Victoria Watson, Jack Rugg, Luke Terry

Holden Jung

Katrina Mitt, Tommy Tso, Eric Lo, Dov Feinmesser

John Nunez III

Eric William Carter

Cedric Jenin

Kim Young kyu, Lee Min Young

Ryan Ven Huizen

Tyler Hughes

Catherine Popple

Subhajit Das

Joseph Juhl

Austin A. Fredrickson

Francois Thibodeau, Shawn Bruins, Beverly Dolson, Thomas J. Agius

Yong Ju Lee

Vincent Carriere Marleau, Simon Chawky

Nathaniel Wooten, Dennis Harvey, Nilus Klingel, Tim Gale

Jesse Taylor, Krassimir Kaltchev, Alec S. Zimmer

Roberto Andonie, Jesus Fabela, Cynthia Tamez

Ana Elisa Delsol, Christian Velasco

Christian Aubin, Dominique Cote, Alexandre Landry, Caroline Le

Amanda McLeod, Karl Vinge, Imtiaz Ashraf

Juan Pablo Azares, Jose Antonio Camara

Erika Strauss

Steve Spoinka

Christopher Cauknecht

Anthony d'Anna

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	2009
Location	Centre-ville Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Stage	One stage
Competitors	59

Surface area (m²)	7000 m²

Doc. level	75%

Editorial

North of Ontario School of Architecture

by Anne Cormier, published 2010-03-01

The proposed school of architecture that has been emerging for some years at Laurentian University is guided by the intuition of the possible impacts that such a school would have in Sudbury, more conveniently referred to as North of Ontario. The expected impact for Sudbury would certainly be the cultural contribution of the school by its activities as well as the possible links with local industries. In fact, a possible urban renewal could be provoked by its location in the heart of city, as it was clear to the promoters from the very beginning of the project, that the place for an architecture school is in the city, rather than on the Laurentian campus.

The international competition of open ideas that was held, sought multiple objectives. The idea was to evoke, not only the Sudbury citizens, but the architectural community at large, an interest for the project and its urban impact. If the characteristics of the city were widely exhibited in the program, it was up to the competitors to situate the school within the city, in the perspective of a broad exploration of possibilities and the recognition of the development potential offered by downtown Sudbury. It was also meant to address the ambitious project of a bilingual school, located on the rocky outcrops of the Canadian shield in the middle of the boreal forest in a relatively isolated town in northern Ontario. The NOSOA (Northern Ontario School of Architecture) competition, or, in French, l'ÉANO (École d'architecture du Nord de l'Ontario) was intended to answer the enticing question: "What could a school of architecture be?" In addition, there was a call for the contribution of indigenous communities in the activities of the School. There was speculation that they would support the promotion of sustainable lifestyles and innovation in the forestry sector and entrepreneurship in general.

This ambitious competition with a vast program was fruitful. The 59 proposals received from nine countries on three continents had exceeded the expectations of the organizers and the citizens of Sudbury who are, in some way, the real winners of this competition. The wealth of ideas presented and the range of projects allowed them to appreciate a wide range of urban, landscape and architectural strategies from the consolidation of the urban fabric to the gentle infiltration of downtown where the most interesting proposals sought to repair the disrupted urban fabric through landscaped and built interventions. It's now up to the Laurentian and Sudbury to move forward!

(translated by Carmela Cucuzzella)

Description

What could a School of Architecture be? Ideas for a new school in Northern Ontario.

Led by the NOSOA Steering Committee in partnership with the City of Greater Sudbury, this competition challenges entrants to consider:

How can a new school of architecture collaborate, and contribute to a culturally diverse community while providing an innovative and globally competitive education?

This competition will generate ideas which push the envelope, questioning the roles of schools of architecture. What are the physical characteristics? What are the more abstract, theoretical ones? How can this new school satisfy the unique nature of Northern Ontario? These are some example questions that can be considered, though they are not required.

There are two distinct aspects proposed for NOSOA that should be carefully considered. First, it will be providing a dual-stream education - students can study in either English or in French. The second is that NOSOA will deeply engage with, and learn from the First Nation communities which comprise a large portion of Northern Ontario. Beyond those two stipulations, this competition has purposefully ignored setting strict design guidelines in order to allow entrants the complete freedom to generate their own, unique ideas. It is up to each team to interpret their response.

(From competition documentation)

Jury comments

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	Douglas Cardinal, Architecte
	Anne Cormier, Architecte
	Craig Dykers, Architecte
	Dominic Giroux, Recteur de l'Université Laurentienne

Calendar

May 1, 2009: Official launch of the contest and opening of the question period
August 31, 2009: Closing of question period
October 10, 2009: Deadline for submissions
October 17-23, 2009: Exhibition and public discussion of projects, downtown conference and jury review
October 23, 2009: Announcement of winners and online publication of submissions

(From competition documentation)

(Unofficial automated translation)

Press Review

Architectural Record 16-06-2009

Kollectif.net 27-11-2009

Ontario 16-03-2008

Ontario 29-06-2009

Northern Life.ca 11-12-2007

Northern Life.ca 22-10-2009

List of general documents

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