LU School of Architecture: Year in Review
Laurentian Architecture Laurentienne welcomed their third class to the school of architecture despite the School of Architecture being completed on the corner of Elm and Elgin the students were able to study within the St. Andrew’s Place building on Larch St. with the limited space the University students were still able to create some amazing projects and proposals for our Greater Sudbury community.
First-year students designed and built warming huts for Ramsey Lake, despite the cold weather and freezing of the lake the city was able to allow the wooden structures to take over the round about at the Elizabeth street, Rowing/Canoe Club. The community and social media absolutely loved these structures and they seemed to get a lot more popularity than the previous ice fishing huts that weren’t really tested out and used before the school auctioned them off.
Second-year students designed and built canoes, one carbon fibre and cedar strip canoe and the other a traditional birch bark canoe. These students were quite happy with Ramsey Lake not freezing over in early December because it gave them the opportunity to launch their watercrafts into the chilling waters and take them out for a test drive. They had an outstanding performance just gliding through the water, the students hope to use the canoes once again when the weather warms up in the late summer/early fall. Over the year, the second years used Sudbury’s Rotary Park as a case study to learn about landscape and how to create ecological and sustainable designs. Rotary Park is located between Downtown and New Sudbury on the other side of the rock face following the Kingsway.
Third-year students began the year creating collapsible structures for a flour mill in the Sault Ste. Marie area. They then worked on a 2-day project building a bend wood structure called WEDPISKOIWAYIN on the main Laurentian Campus to pay tribute to regional diversity and innovation of indigenous people. These third-year students also worked with community members from Powassan to redesign the Powassan District Library. Their final project of the year was the design and building of saunas. As the school year quickly comes to a close the students are struggling to finish these beautiful hand crafted saunas for their deadline but the fact is the students may need to leave it for the summer and continue it when they get back in September.
The school is ready to wind down for the summer as the excitement grows for next year. The final undergraduate class will arrive, the school will open its doors for the first time and we will see our first graduating class from the School of Architecture and the school’s undergrad will become fully accredited.
Photos: Eagle Ray Perspectives
Alexander Mayhew
Alexander Mayhew just completed his second year of architecture at Laurentian University. He's an outdoorsman and a Voyageur who works at Laurentian Liaison and writes for the LAMBDA as well as run LUinFocus a Laurentian photography club and acts as media Coordinator for LASA AEAL, Laurentian architecture's student association.
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