Specializing in aquatic, community, cultural, and educational centres, HCMA is an award-winning Canadian firm based in Vancouver, BC. Each of their projects - whether it be a through a building or through collaborations with artists and innovators - works toward catalyzing healthier, more creative, and engaged communities.
During my four months here, I had the opportunity to work through the schematic design phase of a new aquatics and community centre in New Westminster, BC, engaging in iterative physical model-making, design meetings, precedent research, diagramming, and programmatic studies. For my last month, I was tasked with creating a large scale presentation model of the building for public engagement meetings, using both digital and analog modelling methods. I also created illustrative visualizations and plans for an expansion and renovation of the Holland Community Aquatics Centre in MI.
