drawings, photographs
DR2012:0011:032
Description:
Ring binder containing drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, stats of architectural, art, and graphic design work, and a watercolour related to Melvin Charney's activities as a student at McGill University, and include the following early projects: - Kitchen details for Mr. and Mrs. A. Zion (1 stat); - Design of vol. 2, no. 2 of YES: A Creative Quarterly (1 copy); - Small weekend house (3 stats); - Curb-service restaurant, for summer use only, on a Laurentian road (2 stat); - Studio-house in the Laurentian mountains (2 stats); - Apartment house to complete an existing pattern of older garden apartments (3 stats); - Community library for the Town of Mount Royal (6 stats); - Motel near the St. Lawrence River (2 stats); - Child centre (3 stats); - Building for the Province of Quebec Architects Association (4 stats); - Cloverdale shopping centre (1 stat); - Morse Jewellers (4 stats); - Steinberg's supermarket, Montreal North; - Reinforced concrete canopy, Molson Stadium (1 sketch, 1 photograph, 1 stat); - Town of Dorval subdivision proposal (1 stat); - Ottawa City Hall, study of lighting of areas in the building (1 stat); - Entrance vestibule, 1552 St. Matthew Street, Montreal (1 stat).
1955-1957
Portfolio for application to the graduate program at Yale University
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DR2012:0011:032
Description:
Ring binder containing drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, stats of architectural, art, and graphic design work, and a watercolour related to Melvin Charney's activities as a student at McGill University, and include the following early projects: - Kitchen details for Mr. and Mrs. A. Zion (1 stat); - Design of vol. 2, no. 2 of YES: A Creative Quarterly (1 copy); - Small weekend house (3 stats); - Curb-service restaurant, for summer use only, on a Laurentian road (2 stat); - Studio-house in the Laurentian mountains (2 stats); - Apartment house to complete an existing pattern of older garden apartments (3 stats); - Community library for the Town of Mount Royal (6 stats); - Motel near the St. Lawrence River (2 stats); - Child centre (3 stats); - Building for the Province of Quebec Architects Association (4 stats); - Cloverdale shopping centre (1 stat); - Morse Jewellers (4 stats); - Steinberg's supermarket, Montreal North; - Reinforced concrete canopy, Molson Stadium (1 sketch, 1 photograph, 1 stat); - Town of Dorval subdivision proposal (1 stat); - Ottawa City Hall, study of lighting of areas in the building (1 stat); - Entrance vestibule, 1552 St. Matthew Street, Montreal (1 stat).
drawings, photographs
1955-1957
Series
AP193.S1
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Series 1, Water Flux and Scrambled Flat, 2002-2010, documents the conception and evolution of a project that was originally a farm building and later became a geology and glaciology museum and research center focused on the Swiss Alps. The project was never realized. R&Sie(n) conceptualized Scrambled Flat as an experimental farm. The project goal was to reconcile European Union’s agricultural regulations, imposing a separation between animal and human living, to the community of Évolène traditional way of living, contiguously with animals, benefiting from the resources they offer. As conceived, Scrambled Flat creates an environment where fluidity between the existence of the animals and the humans is materialized. The size of the form is also adapted from a typical local rural house and exploits the heat of the animals and the insulation of the hay. For this project, R&Sie(n) approached the mayor of the community with the design proposition. The mayor then called for a competition, while also changing the program to an ecology museum and research center illustrating the local effects of global warming and the thawing of the Alps. R&Sie(n) won the competition with Water Flux, a reinterpretation of Scrambled Flat. The project was intended to uncover and exorcise the anxieties of ecological disaster, and the principle of flux related to seasonal change and, more broadly, climate change. The firm designed rooms that reproduce the geological and meteorological environment of the high mountains making it visible and experimental, offering refrigerated spaces for art installations and scientific demonstrations. The concept was also to build with the use of new technologies such as digital modelling, point scanning, and computer numerical control (CNC), combined with ancient local knowledge of knocking on trees to decide which specific pines have the best wood for construction. The building is designed to be constructed with local lamellar wood milled by nearby CNC. The resulting parts would be used for the structure, the insulation, the waterproofing and both the interior and exterior finishes. The design includes a grille wrapping the building, reproducing the profile of traditional houses and enclosure and making it possible to hold the snow inside a typo-morphological imprint. Therefore, the transformable envelope of the building reacts to the rhythm of the seasons. In the winter, the structure would appear like a solid cut-out of ice and snow, with cavities similar to those found in glaciers. In the summer, it would resemble piles of stones used in these areas to make borders. A small pool would collect rainwater and supply it to an interior artificial snowmaking system designed for the gallery. Transformation of the water is an integral part of the design. The records contain images of plans, sections, details for the structure of the façade, renderings, plans of the engineered structure, and photographs documenting the conception of the models with the CNC machinery. The Rhino 3D modelling files are also part of the records along with AutoCAD models and a video documenting the process. The records contain two physical models: a smaller polymer model at 1:20 scale representing the whole structure of the building, and a larger 1:1 latch wood fragment representing detail of the structure in its integrality.
2002-2010
Water Flux and Scrambled Flat
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AP193.S1
Description:
Series 1, Water Flux and Scrambled Flat, 2002-2010, documents the conception and evolution of a project that was originally a farm building and later became a geology and glaciology museum and research center focused on the Swiss Alps. The project was never realized. R&Sie(n) conceptualized Scrambled Flat as an experimental farm. The project goal was to reconcile European Union’s agricultural regulations, imposing a separation between animal and human living, to the community of Évolène traditional way of living, contiguously with animals, benefiting from the resources they offer. As conceived, Scrambled Flat creates an environment where fluidity between the existence of the animals and the humans is materialized. The size of the form is also adapted from a typical local rural house and exploits the heat of the animals and the insulation of the hay. For this project, R&Sie(n) approached the mayor of the community with the design proposition. The mayor then called for a competition, while also changing the program to an ecology museum and research center illustrating the local effects of global warming and the thawing of the Alps. R&Sie(n) won the competition with Water Flux, a reinterpretation of Scrambled Flat. The project was intended to uncover and exorcise the anxieties of ecological disaster, and the principle of flux related to seasonal change and, more broadly, climate change. The firm designed rooms that reproduce the geological and meteorological environment of the high mountains making it visible and experimental, offering refrigerated spaces for art installations and scientific demonstrations. The concept was also to build with the use of new technologies such as digital modelling, point scanning, and computer numerical control (CNC), combined with ancient local knowledge of knocking on trees to decide which specific pines have the best wood for construction. The building is designed to be constructed with local lamellar wood milled by nearby CNC. The resulting parts would be used for the structure, the insulation, the waterproofing and both the interior and exterior finishes. The design includes a grille wrapping the building, reproducing the profile of traditional houses and enclosure and making it possible to hold the snow inside a typo-morphological imprint. Therefore, the transformable envelope of the building reacts to the rhythm of the seasons. In the winter, the structure would appear like a solid cut-out of ice and snow, with cavities similar to those found in glaciers. In the summer, it would resemble piles of stones used in these areas to make borders. A small pool would collect rainwater and supply it to an interior artificial snowmaking system designed for the gallery. Transformation of the water is an integral part of the design. The records contain images of plans, sections, details for the structure of the façade, renderings, plans of the engineered structure, and photographs documenting the conception of the models with the CNC machinery. The Rhino 3D modelling files are also part of the records along with AutoCAD models and a video documenting the process. The records contain two physical models: a smaller polymer model at 1:20 scale representing the whole structure of the building, and a larger 1:1 latch wood fragment representing detail of the structure in its integrality.
Series
2002-2010
DR2007:0020
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This consists of a boxed set of related pieces from L.W. Richards participation in "The Architecture Series" at the Power Plant contemporary art gallery in 1988-89. L.W. Richards renovated and drove a Pontiac Firebird, named "Power Plant". The project was the subject of Vikky Alexander's essay "Back to the Future" in the Power Plant Gallery's "The Architecture Series", 1989, pp.25-31. The project was reviewed by Adele Freedman (Globe and Mail, March 5, 1988, p.C12), Christopher Hume (Architect designs gallery on wheels, Toronto Star, Feb. 27, 1988, p. G15), and pictured and discussed in The Canadian Architect, Vol. 33, no. 4, April 1988, p.6. The set pf pieces includes: a) B&W photograph of the Power Plant car in an auto-body workshop, b) The Architecture Series, booklet with Alexander's essay, c)newspaper and magazine clippings/reviews, d)orangesteel brochure rack, that L.W. Richards designed, from the Power Plant car (~ 18" x 18" x 3"), e) nine B&W brochures titled "Cars by Architects" that fit into the red-orange rack, and f) ~ 20 colour slides of the Power Plant car in various locations in Toronto.
1988-1989
Power Plant (Cars by Architects), 1988-1989
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DR2007:0020
Description:
This consists of a boxed set of related pieces from L.W. Richards participation in "The Architecture Series" at the Power Plant contemporary art gallery in 1988-89. L.W. Richards renovated and drove a Pontiac Firebird, named "Power Plant". The project was the subject of Vikky Alexander's essay "Back to the Future" in the Power Plant Gallery's "The Architecture Series", 1989, pp.25-31. The project was reviewed by Adele Freedman (Globe and Mail, March 5, 1988, p.C12), Christopher Hume (Architect designs gallery on wheels, Toronto Star, Feb. 27, 1988, p. G15), and pictured and discussed in The Canadian Architect, Vol. 33, no. 4, April 1988, p.6. The set pf pieces includes: a) B&W photograph of the Power Plant car in an auto-body workshop, b) The Architecture Series, booklet with Alexander's essay, c)newspaper and magazine clippings/reviews, d)orangesteel brochure rack, that L.W. Richards designed, from the Power Plant car (~ 18" x 18" x 3"), e) nine B&W brochures titled "Cars by Architects" that fit into the red-orange rack, and f) ~ 20 colour slides of the Power Plant car in various locations in Toronto.
graphic materials
AP179.S1.025
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Banner featured in the Fabrications exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1998.
circa 1995
Photographic reproduction of model on banner, Casa La Roca, Caracas
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AP179.S1.025
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Banner featured in the Fabrications exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1998.
graphic materials
circa 1995
drawings
Crypte funéraire, Rome
ARCH276914
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Dessin provenant du concours d'émulation de l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
1900 - 1920
Crypte funéraire, Rome
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ARCH276914
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Dessin provenant du concours d'émulation de l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
drawings
1900 - 1920
textual records
AP075.S3.SS2.012
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Original folder entitled: "MISSISSAUGA LIVING ARTS CENTRE / WINTER + ASS.".
1992
Consultant service proposal for the Mississauga Living Arts Centre
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AP075.S3.SS2.012
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Original folder entitled: "MISSISSAUGA LIVING ARTS CENTRE / WINTER + ASS.".
textual records
1992
textual records
AP075.S1.1992.PR03.004
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Original folder entitled "PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE / UBC / TREE SURVEY".
circa 1992
Trees survey for the Chan Shun Performing Arts Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
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AP075.S1.1992.PR03.004
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Original folder entitled "PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE / UBC / TREE SURVEY".
textual records
circa 1992
photographs
ARCH258620
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Contient une carte postale de la classe à l'École des Beaux-Arts. Comprend aussi 4 photographies (photocopies): l'atelier de l'École des Beaux-Arts (?); appartement à Paris de Cormier; appartement à Paris avec Berthe Cormier qui joue la harpe; appartement inconnu.
circa 1910
Diverses photographies de l'École des Beaux-Arts et de Cormier à Paris
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ARCH258620
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Contient une carte postale de la classe à l'École des Beaux-Arts. Comprend aussi 4 photographies (photocopies): l'atelier de l'École des Beaux-Arts (?); appartement à Paris de Cormier; appartement à Paris avec Berthe Cormier qui joue la harpe; appartement inconnu.
photographs
circa 1910
ARCH264521
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Le manuscrit traite, entre autres, d'art, d'artisanat, de beauté, de dignité, de richesse et de pauvreté.
s.d.
Manuscrit traitant de l'art et de la dignité
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ARCH264521
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Le manuscrit traite, entre autres, d'art, d'artisanat, de beauté, de dignité, de richesse et de pauvreté.
s.d.
ARCH264522
Description:
Entre autres, le manuscrit traite de l'art, l'artisanat, la beauté, la dignité, la richesse et la pauvreté.
s.d.
Manuscrit traitant de l'art et de la dignité
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ARCH264522
Description:
Entre autres, le manuscrit traite de l'art, l'artisanat, la beauté, la dignité, la richesse et la pauvreté.
s.d.