Lakeview Village: health and wellness offered by a network of green open spaces
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Urban Planning
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Future
Lakeview Village, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Lakeview is a transformation of a 177-acre brownfield site, formerly a coal-fired generating plant at the edge of Lake Ontario, into an integrated district that provides 20,000 people with housing and 9,000 people with jobs, retail and recreation in a compact, human-scaled community located close to rail transit. This will create a roadmap for regeneration, supporting the reduction of vehicle dependency and increase of local vibrancy.
A foundational value principle of the design is that the waterfront belongs to everyone. The site has long been a missing link in the City of Mississauga’s public open space and connectivity. The Lakeview vision, centered on the public realm, provides safe and well-connected networks for all modes of transportation (walking, bike, transit), ensuring an equity of access for the surrounding community.
The network of green open spaces offers an invaluable resource for health and wellness. The new Lakefront Park includes a waterfront trail for walkers, runners and cyclists on Lake Ontario that extends throughout the site and beyond to the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail, continuing west of the site to the Lakefront Promenade Park and east of the site to the Conservation Area. The Lakefront Park plan includes a kayak center, a cultural center and outdoor amphitheater, a market, and the breakwater jetty. The Waterfront Trail offers link to several other parks within Lakeview Village, including Ogden Park, the central north-south axis, as well as Waterway Common, and a restored Serson Creek.
The plan demonstrates the Lakefront Village commitment to a healthy lifestyle and optimizes use of the invaluable natural resource of the lake, both for Lakeview residents, businesses and for visitors from throughout Mississauga and the Toronto region.
Lakeview Village incorporates density and a mix of uses to create a vibrant, robust urban district. The building sizes and scales are a mix of typologies to attract residents from a range of incomes, and a variety of businesses including offices, retail and restaurants. The residential blocks include a variety of housing types and scales, including townhouses, apartments, and high-rise towers with striking views of the lake. The intensive public open space network and mix of uses provides the synergy for thriving economic vitality.
The Lakeview design incorporates passive and active strategies to reduce energy. A District Energy Plant will generate energy utilizing wastewater heat recovery and is a central feature of the Lakeview Sustainability Center, displaying the innovative technology as an educational exhibit, learning and event center for residents and visitors.
The Sustainability Implementation Plan for Lakeview Village aims to reduce district GHG emissions from operational and embodied carbon in a number of ways besides renewable District Energy. High performance building envelopes and systems, responsible building materials choices, and the investment in landscape restoration as a carbon sink to help offset the impact of the new construction.
The landscape restoration as a carbon sink is also an important factor: restoring this site from a denuded coal-fired power plant to a lush network of parks with indigenous and drought-tolerant species. This transformation will help soil recovery, plants to flourish, offset the carbon emissions, as well as offering an invaluable ecological and recreational resource for the city.
Lakeview Village is significant through its contribution to progressive goals of increasing density within the urban growth boundary, and for the provision of much-needed housing near jobs and transit. Lakeview is a template for attainable and desirable densification leveraging existing infrastructure, improving quality-of-life (through reduced commutes and creation of a strong sense of community), and utilizing innovative environmental strategies such as synergized site-wide systems, a holistic approach to storm-water management and integration into a regional lakefront park and bike system.
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View towards Lake Ontario
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Lakeview is a mixed-use district made up of a fine grain of streets and blocks where the public realm is the primary organizing driver of the plan.
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View of the existing brownfield site
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View of the new district looking towards Toronto
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View of Waterway Common looking west
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View towards Lakeview Square
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View of waterfront park urban edge
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Urban street edge at the waterfront park
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Waterway Common in the summer time
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Waterway Common in the winter time.
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Lakeview Square in the winter time
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View from the pier looking towards Lakeview Square
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Lakeview is highly integrated with it's context creating a network of public spaces that draw people to the new waterfront park system.
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Sustainability is a core driver of the new Lakeview community
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The urban design framework creates a network of streets, blocks and public spaces.
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A new waterfront park establishes a new continuous network of publicly accessible landscape for pedestrians and cyclists.
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The Lakefront community is served by a transit network that connects to the overall metro Toronto system.
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The presence of the lakefront is drawing deep into the community providing views and access for all.
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Lakeview Square is located at a strategic position where the community meets the Lake.
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Lakeview Square is a dynamic mixed use district that is designed to accommodate a wide variety of uses and functions.
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An informal concert at Lakeview Square - looking towards the Lake.
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Connected to Lakeview Square are a series of cultural buildings and spaces that are part of an innovation district.
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Mobility choices such as cycling, walking and autonomous vehicles are emphasized over private cars.
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The innovation district is designed to encourage spontaneous meeting and engagement with a strong emphasis on the street.
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New workplaces are designed to respond to the unique location at the waterfront.
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A new arts/cultural center provides maker spaces and a venue for events and exhibitions. Incubator spaces and artists housing shape an open courtyard.
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View towards Artscape and the innovation hub beyond.
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At the heart of the innovation district is the Sustainability Center, a social hub that includes event and learning spaces, district energy and vacuum waste systems.
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The Sustainability Center integrates district energy, vacuum waste systems and social programming into a unique hub.
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Storm-water management systems are integrated throughout the Lakeview community.
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Typical urban design guidelines allow for inventive design while shaping the block structure and public realm.
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View towards the south-west showing the diverse building types that make up this new dynamic community at the lakefront.
Mississauga
Canada
Lakeview Community Partners Limited
03/2021
716294 sq. m
Sasaki
Sasaki, Glen Schnarr & Associates, Inc. NAK Design Strategies, Gerrard Design, Lux9, Spanier Group, The Municipal Infrastructure Group Ltd., Urbantech, Cicada
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Curriculum
Sasaki comprises architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, graphic design, interior design, and civil engineering, as well as strategic planning and software development. Among these disciplines, we collaborate in equilibrium, and each is recognized nationally and internationally for design excellence. On our teams, practitioners from diverse backgrounds come together to create unique, contextual, enduring solutions. Our integrated approach yields rich ideas, surprising insights, unique partnerships, and a broad range of resources for our clients. This approach enables us to work seamlessly and successfully from planning to implementation. While our disciplines offer depth of expertise, our studio structure engenders breadth, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. From our headquarters in metro Boston, USA, and with an office in Shanghai, we work in a variety of settings—locally, nationally, and globally.
