Webday Wednesday - Comprehensive Density for Community Space

Title: Comprehensive Density for Community Space
Date: December 16, 2020
Presenter: Ted Watson, OAA ARCHITECT AIBC AAA NSAA Int'l. Assoc. AIA FRAIC LEED AP | Partner and Architect, MJMA

SESSION:

How can we design dense, vibrant, and healthy ‘Community Space’? The notion of ‘Comprehensive Density’ refers to community facilities that blend overlapping layers of wellness and identify amongst public realm components. These spaces are dense, interwoven, and often vertically arranged forms with the intent of maximizing benefit and the user experience, now and into the future. Learn about recent history and density convergence of community recreation and campus centres. Explore current and future trends through global project examples with a clear mandate to further maximize density in social, spatial, and programmatic ways that lead to wellness in all its forms.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

• See approaches for programmatic density for new builds or renovations to achieve greater wellness, user satisfaction and program delivery.
• Learn of emerging concepts in sustainability and systems integration to plan for facilities that meet approaching challenges of Net Energy, Resiliency, Carbon Neutrality, and Mass Timber Design.
• Explain how a dense and diverse Community or Campus Hubs can foster identity, inclusivity and removal of barriers to participation.
• Identify opportunities through project examples of how to leverage the development of innovative social, programming and technical concepts.

BIO:

Ted Watson, OAA ARCHITECT AIBC AAA NSAA Int'l. Assoc. AIA FRAIC LEED AP | Partner, and Architect, MJMA

Ted Watson is an Architect and Partner at MJMA, Toronto. This 75-person interdisciplinary design firm focuses on the development of community and campus recreation, parks, and public realm spaces. The firm is focused on engaging communities to help create spaces that draw people together and elevate the civic experience through place-making. MJMA is the recipient of the RAIC 2016 Firm Award and has received numerous interdisciplinary national and international design awards for its campus and community spaces including three Governor’s General Awards for Architecture. Ted has spent 25 years focused designing public spaces to meet the needs of its community with a strong focus on sustainability and program innovation. 

Continuing education learning hours: 1 credit

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, December 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET

WEBINAR REGISTRATION FEE:
$50 for RAIC members, plus applicable taxes.
$75 for non-members, plus applicable taxes.

SCHEDULE: The Webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 16 at 1 p.m. ET in English.
The Canada-wide schedule by time zone is:

More information, including online access instructions and a PDF copy of the slides will be sent to you by email on the Tuesday prior to the Webday webinar. 

*Purchase of webinars and events are non-transferable.