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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. The Myhal Centre in Toronto, Canada by Feilden Clegg Bradley StudiosNovember 3rd, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Located at the heart of the city centre campus, and designed in collaboration with Toronto based practice, Montgomery Sisam Architects, the Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship (MCEIE) serves the University’s wide range of engineering disciplines, from heavy mechanical engineering through to computer engineering. The Centre signals a new era for engineering education through a design that encourages group work outside the traditional seminar room, providing dynamic and fl exible environments that break down artifi cial barriers between people, foster collaboration, encourage active learning and accelerate innovation. Occupying the last unbuilt site along the University’s historic St George Street, the building acknowledges its signifi cant position as a building in the round, providing a transparent and permeable ground fl oor that creates both physical and visual connections to its surroundings.  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout
 Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout The eight-storey building includes a sophisticated 500 seat collaborative lecture theatre, workshop and lab spaces, innovation incubator suites allied to industry presence rooms, versatile design studios and a doubleheight extra-curricular club space called ‘The Arena’ large enough to allow for drone fl ight and testing. This 7,500 square metres of net programme space is balanced by an additional 7,500 square metres of non nett area, including shared social learning spaces, common areas, coffee bars, atria, and event spaces. Designed to be an exemplar of low-energy design for the city and university the building has an anticipated energy use intensity (EUI) of 100 kWh/m², less than half that of its university neighbours.  Image Courtesy © Daniel Ehrenworth  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout Collaboration, active learning and innovation The MCEIE is designed to enhance the student experience and enable collaboration between students, faculty, alumni and, particularly, industry partners. The sense of how the building could facilitate this was a prime driver behind the design. Clustering accommodation around and within an atrium space not only allows visibility between the different users, but encourages informal meetings at open staircases, balconies and walkways. Transparency of rooms and open plan space which faces onto the atrium facilitates this, whilst adding life to this communal space. The design refl ects the Faculty’s spirit of creativity, inclusivity and leadership, supporting and enabling the existing culture of innovative start-ups and patents coming from the school.  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout University of Toronto St Georges Campus St Georges Campus in downtown Toronto is the oldest of the three University of Toronto campuses, made up of a mix buildings from the late 19th century to the present day. Located next to Simcoe Hall and fronting onto St. George Street, the Myhal Centre is designed to have a positive, transformative impact on both the streetscape and the campus at large. The transparent and permeable double-height entrance hall and exhibition space engages passers-by and creates a sense of vibrancy at street level. It opens onto a new forecourt with a colonnade that runs the length of the façade. The building’s expression is premised on a dignifi ed and restrained architecture respectful of its academic setting in terms of material, composition and scale. Four Elevations The bioclimatic design of the façade results in four distinct strategies corresponding to the cardinal solar orientations – all without sacrifi cing generous access to light and views. Projecting vertival pre-cast fi ns shade the East and West façades. A dominant horizontal fi n then shades the south façades.  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout MCEIE was designed with a 100 year design life, and opens as one of the three most sustainable higher education facilities in Canada Constructed to Toronto Green Standard Tier 2, it has anticipated energy use intensity (EUI) of 100 kWh/m², compared with 200–300 kWh/m² for the typical existing UoT Campus buildings. This fi gure represents a 25 per cent effi ciency improvement over the Ontario Building Code. The annual energy production of the building is estimated at approximately 70,000 kWh. Some of the features leading to this enhanced energy profi le include: • A high-performance building envelope, including R-22 walls and an R-26 roof  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout 
A building of three voids The Myhal Center is a cube in form, 44.5 metres wide by 44.6 metres deep by 43.7 metres tall. It is best understood by an analysis of the section, which consists of three signifi cant voids. The first void is created by the Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium, which takes up more than 60 per cent of Levels 1 and 2. From two main entrances on the ground fl oor, the tiered seating—which can accommodate up to 468 people—rises up to the second level mezzanine, where there are two other entrances. The underside of the lecture hall seating creates the second signifi cant void. The twostorey- high Engineering Society Arena on Level 0 was supported by a $1 million gift from the students themselves, through the lead ership of the Engineering Society and is designed to host a rich variety of co-curricular clubs and teams. The third void occupies the centre of the building, rising from Level 5 through to Level 8 and is topped by six conical light shafts. This void has come to be known as the ‘revealed atrium’ due to the way it reveals itself without forewarn ing as you rise up through the building. It is the lungs and heart of the activity centres that make up the innovation and entrepreneurial programmes of the Myhal Center. Void 1 Lee and Margaret Lau Auditorium  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout  Image Courtesy © Daniel Ehrenworth  Image Courtesy © Roberta Black University of Toronto  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout  Image Courtesy © Tom Ridout  Image Courtesy © Daniel Ehrenworth  Cross Section 1. Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  Lower-Ground-Floor-1-Plan, , Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  Lower-Ground-Floor-2-Plan, Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  Ground-Floor-Plan, Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  Second-Floor-Plan, Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  Fourth-Floor-Plan, Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  Fifth Floor Plan, Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  Seventh-Floor-Plan, Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios  West-Elevation, Image Courtesy © Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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