Dezeen School Shows: a project exploring solutions to earthquakes in Turkey through urban design is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at University of Toronto.
Also included is an installation which includes the use of textiles and wax, as well as research into architecture that honours Filipino culture.

University of Toronto
Institution: University of Toronto

School: John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design

Course: BA (Hons) Design

Tutors: Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Urban Design and Master of Visual Studies
School statement:
"The John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto offers graduate programmes in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, forestry and visual studies. "In their final year, students complete a rigorous design thesis project."

(in)Visible Maintenance by Daniel Wong
"This thesis poses the question: what if the breakdown of a building could be chronographed as a fundamental element of everyday design"
"Imagine a shift where we prioritise celebrating the natural process of decay, favouring maintenance, cleaning and repair over the current economic model of superficial environmental posturing.
"Drawing provides an alternative vision between the speculative, the surreal and the plausible ? a resistance to our valuation of existing buildings.
"These drawings aim to reframe, shift...