The document discusses plans to redevelop the former Wychwood TTC Barns and Evergreen Brick Works sites in Toronto. It provides details on the vision, partnerships, funding, design concepts, and sustainability features for the projects. The goal is to provide affordable arts and environmental spaces while preserving heritage buildings and demonstrating best practices in sustainability. Key elements include live/work studios, community spaces, gardens, and programming around food, the environment and education.
7. • Non-profit real estate development
• Affordable space provision
• Programs and services
• Planning and consulting
• Research
8. Green/Arts Barns Vision
The Green/Arts Barns Project aims to:
• Provide affordable space for the arts and the environment
• Animate the adjacent park with programs and services
• Provide facilities for community-based arts, environmental, educational and
recreational services
• Preserve an important part of our building heritage
• Develop a project that demonstrates best practices in sustainability design
• Honour the legacy of public transit in Canada
9. Measures to ensure
project is a good
neighbour
• Community-minded vision
• Diversity of tenant mix
• Integrated building and park design
• Model of environmental sustainability
• Enhanced safety – eyes-on-the-park
• Artscape property management
• Community stewardship through non-profit board
10. Partners:
Toronto Artscape Inc.
City of Toronto
The Stop / Foodshare
Friends of a New Park
Funders:
Metcalfe Foundation
City of Toronto
Province of Ontario
Canada/Ontario - Affordable Housing
TD Bank
Green Municipal Funds [FCM]
CBIP - Natural Resources Canada
Cultural Spaces - Heritage Canada
Toronto Atmospheric Fund
Eco Action - Environment Canada
REDI - Natural Resources Canada
Trillium Foundation
26. Studio Barn
• 26 affordable live/work studios,
ranging in size from 445 to 1050 SF,
plus 15 work only studios which can
be leased independently of the
live/work studios
•‘Live’ address to Benson, ‘Work’
address internal to covered street and
park.
• East end space available to lease for
community use.
28. Covered Street
• A place for people to come together and
meet. Public space for exhibitions, craft
fairs, readings, community meetings and
gatherings.
• Provides a way through the site while
giving access to adjacent work studios and
community spaces.
• Occupies the original 1913 barn,
preserving the historical form of this linear
space, while providing a thermal buffer to
adjacent spaces.
30. Community Barn
• Affordable rental space available in a range
of sizes for community based arts and
environmental organizations. Public
washrooms accessible to both building and
park users. Elevator provides accessibility to
the upper level.
• Double height galleria space provides
access to 2nd level, interconnecting the
covered street with the sheltered garden and
park.
32. Green Barn
• Accessible greenhouse with a
temperate climate environment for
starting seedlings and growing organic
produce. A sheltered community
garden including a gathering space
with a bake oven. Transition space
from building to park
• Environmental education programs
related to horticulture, community
gardening, composting, and organic
food growing.
38. Environmental Features
Overall Approach
• Project to be submitted for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification –
objective is Gold rating.
• Green Barn to provide educational programming related to sustainability and ecological food
production.
• The project will explore a range of approaches to sustainability – social, financial, and cultural, as
well as building-related systems.
39. Environmental Features
Sustainable Site
• Brownfield redevelopment - Existing industrial buildings recycled and retrofitted with new uses.
• Transformation of remaining open space into public park use, integrated with building design.
• Stormwater retention in cistern(s).
• Emphasis on pedestrian, transit and bicycle use – no onsite parking provided.
• Minimize light pollution – Emphasis on use of low-rise pathway and entrance security lighting.
40. Environmental Features
Energy Conservation
• Compact arrangement of adjacent barn structures conducive to energy conservation with covered
street acting as an energy buffer to adjacent spaces. Thermal mass benefit derived from
arrangement of long east/west masonry wall configuration, with skylight exposure.
Provide upgrade to the insulation level of the entire building.
• Use of ground source heat pumps combined with high efficiency mechanical equipment to heat and
cool the building, with local comfort control in diverse program areas.
• Air and water heat recovery systems employed throughout.
• Emphasis on use of natural day-lighting, with high efficiency light fixtures specified throughout.
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42. Environmental Features
Water Conservation
• Collected stormwater used for irrigation within greenhouse, sheltered garden and potentially
throughout the adjacent park space.
• Collected stormwater used for toilet flushing in both public and private washrooms provided.
• Use of low-volume, high-efficiency plumbing fixtures throughout.
• Objective of eliminating any storm-water sewer discharge off site.
43. Environmental Features
Materials and Resources
• Existing surplus building components reused for art materials or for clean fill to be used on site.
• Facilities designed to accommodate source-separation waste recycling upon occupancy, including
on-site composting of organic material.
• Construction materials and components specified to have high-ratio recycled content, and to be
sourced regionally wherever possible.
• Explore use of new products – recycled cladding, solar-tubes, combined fan coil/HRV units,
recycled plastic floor grating.
44. Environmental Features
Indoor Environmental Quality
• Emphasis on use of low-emitting materials
• Existing building configuration and window/skylight openings provides high percentage of daylight
and views from interior spaces
• High degree of local control to occupants for indoor temperature, ventilation and lighting
45. Project Inception - 2001
Construction Now Underway - 2007
Occupancy Expected - Summer 2008
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49. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings.
New ideas must use old buildings.
Jane Jacobs
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51. Evergreen Brick Works connects us with
our geological and industrial past, of how
nature, extracted and manufactured locally,
built the industrial city of the past.
Today, we want to use nature to build a
different kind of city - the sustainable city of
the future.
52. Purpose Statement
Evergreen Brick Works will provoke new ideas about the relationship between nature,
people and cities.
By capitalizing on the Brick Works’ unique natural and industrial heritage setting, and
engaging and educating the community about diverse nature-based experiences, people
will be able to become active participants in shaping a more sustainable future.
55. Children‟s Experience
We want to create a destination and a
laboratory for connecting children with nature.
In an age of indoor play, cancelled recess, and
virtual realities, we want to immerse children in
a multi-sensory, low-tech experience. An
experience that contains and is inspired by
natural systems – interconnected, diverse,
changing, and influenced by human hands.
57. Triple Bottom Line
Business Plan
Socially, financially and
environmentally sustainable
Operating revenue:
$4 million per annum
Space rental, admissions,
events, sponsorship and
parking.
58. Residential
Residential
North
Slope
Chorley Park
40 acre site
East
12 acre industrial pad Slope
Weston
Expropriated in 1989 Meadows
Residential
Partially restored
Industrial
13 of 15 buildings vacant Pad
Beltline
Trail
Owned by TRCA,
managed by City of Toronto
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61. $55 million Capital Campaign
$7 million in private donations secured to-date
$10 million from Province of Ontario (OHT)
$20 million from Government of Canada
111. Food Strategy
Growing Food
food production & site design
Making Food
artisanal production, food processing and cooking
Sharing Food
growing, preparing and eating together
Food Action
taking new food ideas home & into the
community
112. Food Programming Principles
Proximity - Focusing on locally grown food
Ecological - sustainable food production, processing,
distribution and consumption
Seasonality - experiencing the seasonal differences
Experiential - hands on learning of gardening,
food preparation, processing skills
Affordable - reasonably priced for visiting families
113. Food Elements
Food gardens and teaching kitchens
Greenhouse
Market Garden
Bake ovens, fire pits, smoke house
Composting
Living Machines
Marche
Jamie Kennedy Foundation
Farmer’s Market and Farm Store
158. Stories to be told…
• of the Ravines and their geology and natural history
• of Brickmaking and the development of Toronto and cities
• of Water; „management‟, harvesting, flooding, conserving
• of Energy and how we use it and generate it
• of Waste and how we can harvest or eliminate it
• of Evergreen - their quest to renew our appreciation of nature and cities
160. Wychwood/Brickworks THEMES…
• The value of heritage as architectural and cultural infrastructure of
significant value - „good bones‟, adaptable, resilient, rich in character and
diversity of experience.
161. Wychwood/Brickworks THEMES…
• The value of heritage as architectural and cultural infrastructure of
significant value - „good bones‟, adaptable, resilient, rich in character and
diversity of experience.
• The Non-Profit Client as the creative driver and developer of these
projects - government supports but does not initiate, manage or control
(hopefully).
162. Wychwood/Brickworks THEMES…
• The value of heritage as architectural and cultural infrastructure of
significant value - „good bones‟, adaptable, resilient, rich in character and
diversity of experience.
• The Non-Profit Client as the creative driver and developer of these
projects - government supports but does not initiate, manage or control
(hopefully).
• The need for creative partnerships at all levels to ensure success -
funding, development, consulting, authorities all need to partner.
163. Wychwood/Brickworks THEMES…
• The value of heritage as architectural and cultural infrastructure of
significant value - „good bones‟, adaptable, resilient, rich in character and
diversity of experience.
• The Non-Profit Client as the creative driver and developer of these
projects - government supports but does not initiate, manage or control
(hopefully).
• The need for creative partnerships at all levels to ensure success -
funding, development, consulting, authorities all need to partner.
• Sustainability as relating to an emphasis on the value of what we have,
how we maintain and modify it, and how we look to the long term - an
acknowledgement that operating subsidies will not be available.