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The Urban design for the site was a collaborative process between myself and a colleague, and we each then chose to develop certain elements of the site. I chose the stacked towns fronting Springhurst Avenue as my primary focus, and also developed the building fronting Main St., as it was an important element of the urban scheme.

The design developed out of a desire to connect the Rideau River to the Canal, creating a central axis through which we created nodes of programmed space. These spaces varied from commercial courtyards to paved plazas, landscaped lawns and parks, sports fields and natural walking paths.

We also wanted to bridge the zoning from the existing 1-2 storey residential neighbourhood North of Springhurst to the Proposed nine-storey mixed-use development on the Oblate Lands to the South. The buildings wrap around the site, from 3.5 storeys to 6 and 7 along Main Street, and up to 17 at the South-East corner of the site.