3G3 - ARCH 422 - WINTER 2025
STUDENT
Krzysztof Lower
PROFESSOR
Meredith Miller
"Stock Pile" is a proposal for a visitors center in Toronto, ON. The project reuses CLT slabs from old buildings—cutting the material to a modular size, then stacking on steel tubes—to design an end-of-life scenario for mass timber structures. The linear arrangement of CLT slabs is backfilled with rubble from the demolition of the built environment found around the coastline, putting to use what is considered waste. Visitors enter the building from the street corner, descending down the rubble ramp into the Stock Pile, ending at the riverfront. The composition of reused material intends to represent a dramatic scar in the landscape, recalling the past and projecting a new future.