Agenda
Symposium
Tuesday, May 6
Times in PST
8:00 – 9:30 AM
9:30 – 9:35 AM
9:35 – 9:40 AM
Chris Wrobel
Multi-Family Sales Manager
9:40 – 9:45 AM
9:45 – 10:30 AM
The Butterfly reinvents the tower typology to deliver a high-density urban form that improves quality of life for residents by reconnecting residents to nature and dissolving social barriers—two challenges typically inherent to vertical communities. Presented by Revery Architecture and RDH Building Science, this session will look at three core facade components—The Butterfly’s dynamic GFRC assembly, the award-winning amenity pool enclosure, and the multi-storey tessellated chamfers—and explore how the high-performance facade supports the project in realizing its vision.
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Alchemy is the transmutation of a base material into something more valuable. A central principle of the Shor House on Mayne Island is a kind of alchemical transformation of dis-used wood obtained from multiple sources. Just as the most energy efficient building is conserving one already built, the most progressive edge of designing with wood is to recycle it into continued use. The Shor House demonstrates that careful deconstruction of wooden buildings, then refinishing and recombination of their parts into considered assemblies extends the life-cycle of material otherwise destined for landfill. This is the new leading edge of design in wood. Presented by Measured Architecture, this session will discuss the utilization of coarse + minimal façade systems to achieve a carbon neutral response in a retreat locale while reassembling dismantled existing facades of legacy buildings to the interior cladding.
11:00 – 11:30 AM
11:30 – 12:00 PM
2150 Keith Drive, a new office building in East Vancouver, is driving the office typology forward with its innovative integration of mass timber and glass curtain wall through the use of a structural exoskeleton. Presenters from DIALOG will discuss the complex coordination between trades which has enabled the realization of the project, as well as the challenges of working with new materials and unorthodox systems.
12:00 – 12:30 PM
This roundtable with leading building materials manufacturers will discuss the advanced materials newly available and just around the corner. Learn how architects can work together with manufacturers to build with the latest, most up-to-date technologies, code requirements, and products, and hear what’s next for the industry.
12:30 – 1:30 PM
1:30 – 2:15 PM
Table Talks is an opportunity to have a guided conversation with your peers in the Vancouver AEC community. During this 45-minute session, fellow attendees offer an excellent opportunity to discuss, learn, exchange insights on facades, and collaboratively tackle complex challenges within a group dynamic. We hope this session will be surprising, engaging, and productive.
2:15 – 2:45 PM
In this panel, attendees will learn about the advanced building envelope products and services that are transforming the AEC industry. These advancements allow designers, engineers, and contractors to work smarter, build better, and realize their design intent.
2:45 – 3:15 PM
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM
The təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Center in New Westminster, British Columbia, has redefined notions of progressive design. Designed in collaboration with the local community as well as First Nations groups, the building strives for inclusion, site remediation, and indigenous reconciliation. In addition, despite the high energy demands of natatoriums, the building is the first in Canada to achieve CAGBC’s Zero Carbon Building Design Standard. Ali Kenyon, principal at hcma, will describe how the building’s tightly-insulated envelope helped to achieve this impressive certification.
4:00 – 4:45 PM
Join Vancouver-area experts as they discuss vernacular strategies and passive energy building practices in British Columbia. In this wide ranging conversation, panelists will cover lessons learned from early colonial homes, indigenous building practices, as well as the west coast modernist style which emerged in the region during the mid-20th century. These historic precedents reveal how Vancouver’s architecture can move past the “City of Glass” monikor and its generic condo tower design, instead building structures that respond to the city’s unique climate and culture.
4:45 – 4:50 PM
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