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Landscape Design of The Learning Zone at OCAD University by Bortolotto Architects. Slotted into the ground floor of the Village By the Grange, a well-known downtown mixed-use development, The Learning Zone at OCAD University will augment the school’s library with a flexible, 24/7, hands-on, self-serve space for studying, meeting, presenting and creating.

The Learning Zone at OCAD University - Bortolotto Architects

As a frameless glass box it will protrude beyond the massing of the host building onto St. Patrick Street with a frosted glass façade pierced by a door shaped like a mousehole and a grid of transparent peek-a-boo windows.

The Learning Zone at OCAD University - Bortolotto Architects

These windows will give privacy to nighttime users and entice passers-by to approach the wall and spy into the activities on the interior.

The Learning Zone at OCAD University - Bortolotto Architects

Inside the Grange complex, the project will define a former retail corridor with a reeded and clear glass wall that can be converted with retractable floor-to-ceiling screens and rear projection into a kinetic art gallery with an ever-changing display of student work.

The Learning Zone at OCAD University - Bortolotto Architects

The plan is inspired by an artist’s palette, with a smattering of tables, custom-designed chairs with built-in laptop tables, and a central room called “The Pod” that has vertically retractable walls to convert it from an enclosed space for seminars, presentations or private meetings to become integrated with the rest of the floor.

The Learning Zone at OCAD University - Bortolotto Architects

For more information, please visit Bortolotto Architects website.

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