Green Motion City
This urban design project was an entry for the Incheon Urban Design Completition. It was designed by me and my friends Ryan Felix, Jiffy Lee, and Meaghan Mendonca, over a few months in early summer 2009. Below the fold is a series of images from the display panel, formatted to fit your screen. Enjoy!

Alliance Tower is a premier office tower design conceived in 2006 when I sketched the concept on a peice of paper in one of my high school classes. I even made a quick model then, but this summer, I decided to test my 3d Studio skills and turn it into a real architectural visualization.

The tower is 42 stories and 144m high. It features a three storey, circular lift hall sheathed in glass, with a radiant pattern of light wells to fully naturally illuminate the interior of the space. The spire tapers geometrically, inspired by the layers and petals of a flower. Most of the usable floor space is within a few metres of a window, with great views from any spot in the tower.

I learned a couple cool things while doing this project. Number 1, glass curtain walls look great in the model when all the hardware (support lattice, etc) is included. Number 2, it is hard to get a good feel for the services (elevators/stairs) needed for the tower; I think I may have overdone the number of elevators.

Belmont Village: The Movie may not be coming to theatres near you soon, but it is a story that will touch your heart (if you like city planning, that is). It is a story about the agonizing decline of a well-known commercial strip near downtown Kitchener, now transformed into a glittering urban district. Experience the soaring, eco-industrial space of the Atrium, and the unique shapes of the Convex and Concave parks… you can see it all here in the A Digital City presentation of Belmont Village: This City has Curves.

Published March 15, 2009, and featuring the design and contributions of the TwoTen6 Team:

Andrea Horan, Laine Watson, Scott Hindle, Jeremy Krygsman, Joyce Chong, Katja Sostaric

This work was completed as part of the Plan, Design, and the Environment class at the University of Waterloo. The purpose was to take a declining commercial strip in Kitchener and redesign it into a vibrant, modern destination for live, work, and play. The area is designed to be dense, sustainable, and walkable, and human scale; it gives priority to people, not the car. I (Jeremy Krygsman) did the 3D modeling (including video creation) in 3ds Max. Additionally, I put together the display panels as in Photoshop with the help of Joyce Chong and the input of the rest of the TwoTen6 group.

Need I say more? Go check it out!

[above] The original version of this image was printed as as a presentation panel for our site analysis. The layout and graphics, as well as the “Timeline” section, were done in Adobe Photoshop, and the rest of the content was contributed by the team.

[below] The following 3d models were done by me in 3dsMAX based on the designs ideas of the team. They are currently a work in progress.

The Toronto Subway is run by the Toronto Transit Commission, and serves over 1.2 million people every day. It has 4 underground lines and one above ground line, of which the Young-University-Spadina line is the oldest. Transit service on this line is generally excellent, with trains arriving 3 to 4 minutes during rush hour. However, there is one major problem with the subway: it can be very confusing to an outsider like me, and it tends to look downright ugly!

I’m sure it can be improved, however, and I’ve spent several hours designing a new subway entrance – it was a great learning experience! Perhaps later I will finish with an entire station design, complete with signage and everything, but without further adieu, here it us!

Lit up at night.

The bathroom tiled walls of most TTC subway stations do have some cultural and historic significance, and really they don’t look half bad when they’re well maintained and surrounded by a modern structure!

If you like the design, please comment!