Residential Hall, OCAD University, Toronto ON

Date of Sketch: July 16, 2017

Located on Richmond Street W, a few blocks from Alsop's Sharp Centre for Design, is a proposed new mixed-use Residence Hall with student occupied open space five floors above the street. Street level and above would contain shared university functions, office and commercial spaces. The horizontal platform holds art studios, performing arts and support spaces. The form of this building had been percolating for a while before I heard Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, but his "idée fixe" in the program notes was a reminder urging me to draw it.