Hi all! This post is intended as a further introduction to North Shore ConneXions, our client company, and as an update in terms of our project goals and plans.
The North Shore ConneXions Society was founded in 1956, when a group of parents came together to advocate better services for their children with special needs. This has been their purpose since then: providing social and educational services for special needs children.
The Society’s mission is to support people with disabilities and their families by providing services to support their development, working with all members of the community. Their vision: a community where people with disabilities can have equal opportunities to lead fulfilling lives, and be seen as contributing members to the community.
For further information, visit the North Shore ConneXions Society’s website.
The goal of our project is to help NS ConneXions transform what is now a rarely-used woodshop, in to a two-floor space for meetings and offices. We are to produce drawings that should give a concept of what the renovated space will look like, so that an architect would be able to understand what our client wants from the drawings. The space is roughly 50 x 50 square-feet and 20 feet high.
Our client would currently prefer the lower floor to be used as a large assembly space, for general meetings as well as for staff training courses. The upper floor, to be extended from an existing mezzanine, is to be used for office space, and possibly a smaller meeting area.
Our strategy is to come up with various rough designs, present them to our client, then work on a refined design based on what he prefers from amongst our solutions.
Also, as a follow-up to our first post, here is a team picture!
From left to right: Nicole Philip, Seadon Chui, Jacky Law, Brian Sung, and David Wu
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