The Botanic Gardens was a challenging assignment as it required a master plan of the entire site as well as a visitor’s centre as a meeting place for users and employees. The resultant design addressed issues of eye-sore car parking by locating it in the basement, flooding issues with tactical location atop a hill and varying degrees of privacy throughout the structure. The design is intended to be a playful series of spaces which blur the edge of a building of inside and outside while creating visual and audible connections of occupants across levels. The material language echos that of existing structures at the site while the tensile membrane roof provides choreographed shading and weather protection over public spaces so as to have the outdoors inhabited year round. From this project I honed my Illustrator skills and learned to produce elevations and sections showing depth and use of space in a minimalist style.