2012 Teron Scholars receive awards
2012 Teron Scholars receive awards
From left: Yuncheng Deng, Jean Teron, Jake Murray, William Teron, Sheryl Boyle, Sam Smallwood, Kim Teron, Matthew McKenna, Jayla Dekraker, Iva Mihaylova
The work of the 2012 Teron Scholars displays the art and science of architecture.
This year’s Teron Scholars were presented with their awards by William Teron, founder of the Teron Group of Companies and the “father of Kanata.” Five students were awarded prizes with a further three receiving honorary mentions.
To kick off a new academic year in the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, provide inspiration to future Scholars, and recognize the achievements of this year’s winners, the awards were presented at the Director’s All-School Welcome on September 4, 2012.
Since the Teron Scholar program began in 2007, the annual awards have challenging students in the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism to hone the skills needed to become multidisciplinary lead architects.
Students in any year of study can tailor a studio project identified by a professor as a Teron contender, and submit it for critical review by distinguished members of the Ottawa architecture community. The winners, judged on five critical disciplines (physical, social, environmental and economic dimensions and imagineering), display a holistic approach to architecture.
“I am amazed at the work of these young students,” says Teron, honorary fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and officer of the Order of Canada. “The honourable mentions go to students who show potential, to encourage their talent. The Scholars’ work though, adds magic.”
The winning submissions
Iva Mihaylova design for the Canada Council for the Arts includes an archive tower with large sliding walls through which the general public can see the stored art and a cantilevered auditorium extending slightly over the outdoor public garden.
Inspired by artist Lee Bontecou, Sam Smallwood designed The People’s Eye, a pavilion that twirls skyward. With a dome opening radially and 18 extending solar-panel equipped arms, it evokes the opening of an eyelid, with eyelashes and a pupil for the acceptance of light.
Vance Fok designed ARK 1, the Arctic Centre for Research & Knowledge (Generation 1), as a modular research centre to be shipped and assembled in the ice fields on the border of Yukon and Alaska. The ARK container carries the materials for the building and is then adapted to create the structural frame of the building itself.
Abbi Kusch designed Urban Burrow, a self-dependent, primarily public and environmentally conscious community combining a community centre, library, boat club and residential complex.
Matthew McKenna’s Sussex Drive bookstore plays on the model of an art gallery, featuring a curated book collection for selective exhibitions or sales and gathering space for lectures, forums and public events.
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