project
LOVE CHILD :: YALE & CECIL HOTELS
Granville & Drake, Vancouver, 2008
Did you know that ancient Rome sits some fifteen feet below present-day Rome? How does that happen?
This project began with an archaeological exploration into the ways infrastructure, architecture, furniture, signage, garbage and flesh (the physical "stuff" of a living city) gets layered through historical time, and how such sedimentation contributes to the creation of a unique urban environment - in this case, the Granville Slopes area. The proposed renovation and extension of the existing Yale and Cecil Hotels is a game of exquisite corpse. While the product may be seen as a functional mixed-use building, the interest lies in the specific and fleeting negotiations of extreme idiosyncracies extant in the inherited condition - the creative appropriation of the bits and pieces of architectural corpses.
Exquisite Corpse Cartoon :: Yale & Cecil's Happy Family
Proposed Building Programme
Ground Floor Event Space
Cecil Hotel's Expanded Lightwell
New Off-Ramp
Access to New Lower Level Club
New Club in Yale Hotel's Basement
Proposed Unit Types for Market Co-op
Exploded Axonometric of Circulation
Proposed Granville Street Facade
Lower Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
Fifth Floor Plan
Sixth Floor Plan
Building Section
Model View :: Corner of Granville & Drake
