AE 400 Project II Studio
May 2025 – present
Created with Gabriel Codina, Lucy Kraychyk, and Jasmine Liu
Victoria Meadows Village is my final-year capstone project, which addresses the urgent need for accessible, resilient, and community-oriented long-term care infrastructure in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. Extending off of the existing Victoria Schoolhouse, the design integrates architectural, structural, mechanical, and sustainability strategies to create a high-performance facility that prioritizes resident health, comfort, and dignity.
Disciplines were in constant communication with architecture. As the Structural Lead, my structural design was based on programming needs. Feeding further off architecture and the themes of warmth, the superstructure was designed as a mass-timber beam column system. To accommodate the desire for larger bays, a mass-timber composite deck system, researched by the University of Waterloo1, was used.
For this project, I analyzed the structure, designed and specified structural members, designed the lateral bracing system, designed connections, produced a preliminary structural restoration drawing package, and preliminarily designed the foundations.
