3G3 - ARCH 422 - WINTER 2025
STUDENT
Charlotte Lee
PROFESSOR
Angela Cho
Located in Toronto’s Portlands, a post-industrial area undergoing development, the project uses manually crimped and bent steel tubes repurposed at the end of their life cycle. It explores how rigid steel could appear soft and pliable, and how industrial sounds – clinks or impacts – might be recontextualized. Drawing from agricultural structures like barns, I designed a kit-of-parts for flexible pavilions assembled by community members to house performances. Crimped steel sheets modulate sound and visibility into workshops and studio space from public gathering space. The project reflects on how sound, collaborative labor, and material reuse inform civic relationships to the industrial landscape.