Professional

Robertson Simmons Architects inc.
École Élémentaire du Laure-Rièse, Scarborough ON
-Energy Performance 40% more energy efficient compared with MNECB Reference Building. Designed to meet City of Toronto's Green Development Standards.
-Features include 20% intensive sedum green roof & 80% white ballast roof, in-floor heating system, heat recovery system, occupancy sensors and photocells for daylight harvesting, HVAC and lighting controls linked to Building Automation System, low-E argon-filled exterior glazing units, low VOC and urea-formaldehyde free interiors.

St. Nicholas Catholic School, Scarborough ON
-Designed to LEED reference standards and to meet City of Toronto's Green Development Standards.
-Features include white ballast roof, in-floor radiant heating and cooling system, displacement ventilation, heat recovery system, occupancy sensors and photocells for daylight harvesting, HVAC and lighting controls linked to Building Automation System, MBDC cradle-to-cradle certified solar sunshading on south facing glazing, low-E argon-filled exterior glazing units, low VOC and urea-formaldehyde free interiors. Air handling units capable of up to 100% fresh air intake.

Pierre Berton Public School, Vaughan ON
-Energy Performance 26% more energy efficient compared with MNECB Reference Building.
-Features include white ballast roof, heat recovery system, occupancy sensors and photocells for daylight harvesting, HVAC and lighting controls linked to Building Automation System, Walltite ECO spray-foam insulation system that is EcoLogo and GreenGuard certified, and structural provisions for future installation of solar panels.
-Site features include underground stormwater storage tank, dark sky compliant site lighting with full blackout after midnight.
-Commissioning agent engaged to verify that building systems are designed, installed and operated as intended.
-Carma metering system to monitor & optimize real time electricity & natural gas consumption.
-General contractor required to have construction waste management plan.

Other projects
St. Joachim Catholic School Addition & Renovations, Scarborough
St. Thomas More Catholic School Addition, Scarborough
YRDSB Special Education Renovations (Roselawn PS, Stouffville DSS, Richmond Hill SS)
King City Public School, King City
University of Guelph-Humber, Interior Retrofit, Toronto
Sir Wilfred Laurier Public School, Markham
Little Rouge Public School, Toronto

Zeidler Partnership Architects
Advanced Technologies & Administration Building, SCRIPPS, Florida
York University Performing Arts Building, Toronto
York University General Academic Building
Morrison Hall Student Residence, University of Toronto, Toronto
Union Station Revitalization Proposal, Toronto

Kanner Architects
Feinstein Residence, Los Angeles

Steven Ehrlich Architects
Orange Cost College Art Centre, Costa Mesa, California

Extra-Curricular

Hurricane Katrina Disaster Recovery Efforts with FEMA
Institute of Building Technology & Safety, Iberia & St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Awards

"UNSEEN". Temporary Pavilion. Winning competition entry for the International Garden Festival, Grand-Métis, Québec.

"The Pasquino Project". Internet project. Selected for DATALAND iMAGES Festival, Toronto, sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Exhibitions/Presentations

"Responsive Environments and Small Real Built Architecture; In the context of Revolving Clothes Horses, Electric Garages and Photoelectric Cells". Invited speaker. INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Responsive Environments and Ubiquitous Presence summit, Banff Centre for the Arts.

"Provisorium Danzig / Gdansk, A Case Study". Proposal in collaboration with architect Daniel Karpinski.
Poster exhibited at the XXI World Congress of Architecture, Berlin.

Selected Writings

"Houses without Kitchens", by Natalie Tan in Perspectives, The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects, Vol. 17, No. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 10-11.

"To Work And Die - And Design - in L.A.", "Workspaces Workplaces" issue by Natalie Tan in Perspectives, , The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects, Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 21.

Selected Citations & Reviews

"Gdansk revisited", by Gordon S. Grice in Perspectives, The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 24-25.

"When is a Garden...Not a Garden, The Garden Festival at Grand-Métis, Québec, invites designers to go to the limit - and then some"
Peter Jacobs in Landscape Architecture, Oct. 2003, pp. 133-141.

"Jardins du Festival International de Métis, Espace imaginaires"
by Sylvie Berkowicz in CAHIER V, 17/07/2003.

Publications
"Garden Variety Pervasive Computing", IEEE Pervasive Computing,
Special Edition, Pervasive Computing in the Arts, 2/2004.

Works in Collections & Catalogues

"45 Contemporary Gardens / 45 jardins contemporains",
2000-2004 International Garden Festival, Reford Gardens,
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, ISBN 2-9808927-0-X.

"Unseen", Groupe de recherche en arts médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montreal