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Gateway Studio – Catalyst – Urban Forestry Knowledge Centre (2022)

Project title

Catalyst

Urban Forestry Knowledge Centre

Author

Frank Hinoporos

Studio

Gateway Studio

Academic term

2022-23

Award

2022 Stantec Prize Winner (First Place)

Project Description

Approaching the Urban Forestry Knowledge Centre, visitors meet a hostile barren landscape that evokes the site’s industrial past, with steel fins lining the path. Upon arrival, they experience its mission, seeing how trees are cultivated and engineered inside greenhouses to withstand the climate emergency. Departing, they can see through the directionally oriented fins along the path, now seeing the lush landscape that the fins were previously hiding from them.