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.