The End Elevation of a Gymnasium
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Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of presentation drawing for end elevation of gymnasium.
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The End Elevation of a Gymnasium
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of presentation drawing for end elevation of gymnasium.
Proposal of Sketch Block Plan for McGill University
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of development drawing (block plan).
Proposal of New Front for Old Medical Building
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of presentation drawing (exterior perspective) for university building (stone).
Part of John Schreiber Fonds
File consists of 19 drawings, including 1 plot plan, 1 diagrammatic parking layout, 2 general site condition plans, 1 geometry of courtyards drawing, 3 site sections, 8 design development drawings, 3 perspectives. Also includes 1 project file (correspondence, 2 photographs).
Part of Arthur Erickson fonds
File includes 604 drawings, 33 presentation boards, 150 photographs, and 1 model of the entrance gate. The Islamic University of Madinah is distinguished both by its religious location and by the fact that it represents a centre for the collection, preservation, and dissemination of Islamic heritage. It is situated at the Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, an oasis town surrounded by the desert and the rocky mountains. The valleys are the source of its water supply. The 120 hectare site also incorporates existing buildings. The university campus is characterized by the integration of teaching and living spaces organized around a hierarchy of courts. The Mosque and Faculties occupy the centre of the campus. Low buildings, not exceeding four storeys, maintain a human scale. The main gate faces the City of Madinah and the axes of the buildings are aligned to acknowledge the religiously significant Qibla in Makkah. The prominent arrival court is landscaped with water fountains and gardens as a forecourt to the main Mosque. The residential buildings are clustered, as are the Faculty buildings, housing about 2 000 students in nine-person dwelling units. Covered pedestrian walkways link the facilities beyond the campus core, such as the sports facilities, faculty housing, and commercial districts. The architectural style is based on Islamic forms: simple massing, grouping buildings around courtyards, and orientation of individual components within buildings towards courtyards, which are a source of natural light, air, and visual relief. Courtyards, arcades around courtyards, and gateways to individual buildings are the repetitive elements found throughout the campus.
Drawings of McGill University Buildings
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of architectural drawings for McGill University buildings. Includes 22 measured drawings (floor plans and elevations of McGill University Lodge, floor plans, elevations and sections of McGill College Gymnasium, floor plan of Conservatory, floor plan of Physics Building, floor plan of Physics and Mining Building, floor plan of Arts Building, floor plan of Observants House, floor plan of Museum, floor plan of McGill College Library, floor plan of Joseph House) and 1 presentation drawing (perspective).
Brandeis University Safra Arts Center
Part of Moshe Safdie
Safdie Architects
Block Plan of Proposed Medical Building
Part of Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds
File consists of survey drawing (block plan) for university building.
Part of Moshe Safdie
The Bar Ilan University master plan that Moshe Safdie designed was for the School of Economics and the Student Dormitories. It was planned as an urban system composed of open quadrangles defined by buildings and urban thorough fares which branched out to secondary roads and other squares. The School of Economics is an 8-storey multi-purpose building that is terraced, providing shade for the main campus walkway by its overhangs. The Student Dormitories, accommodating about 200 students, consist of a 2-storey living area around which the bedrooms are clustered. Overall, the dorms reach 6 storeys in height, stacking three terraced apartment units together, with the public spaces facing the academic quadrangle and the private spaces facing the south.
Safdie Architects
AI Ain University Competition (United Arab Emirates University, University Town Project)
Part of Arthur Erickson fonds
FIle consists of 87 drawings and 20 photographs prepared for Sheik Aid bin Naraya, Minister of Education, United Arab Emirates. The competition design prepared for this proposed University, in the oasis city of AI Ain in the United Arab Emirates, sought to provide a modem interpretation of the historical principles of Islamic design. The project was conceived as an axial plan with crossing axes at the entries to the various faculties, achieving their own specific identity. Particularly important was the need to weave the existing buildings of the University into the plan. An architectural vocabulary was developed as a reinterpretation of "desert" architecture, whereby walls were conceived massively in nature with small punched openings to admit light. Such walls protected the inner spaces from the harsh surrounding environment and these spaces were to be enriched in a variety of ways. Spaces were conceived in a hierarchical manner by means of size and finish material. Courtyards, some internalized and climate controlled, became the focus of the architecture, and were protected from the environment by high walls and overhead trellises. Each courtyard was provided with a decorative water feature and appropriate landscaping. In keeping with most Islamic buildings, particular emphasis was placed on the internal nature of space, doorways, passages, and gates to each space. The major entrance to the project is approached directly by the main axis where an enveloping semicircular administration building accepts visitors and dignitaries. The axial plan is broken only by the various "prayer" spaces, or Mosques, which turn in the direction of Mecca. Particularly important to the project were the series of gates at the axial entry points, giving the project its outward architectural richness.