ericmacm
Active Member
Hello, UrbanToronto.
A couple of months ago, I first started working on SketchUp renderings for proposed developments in the Mississauga area. Now that most of the significant proposals have been fleshed out, I've started working on another SketchUp project in regards to future developmental concepts for the city of Mississauga. It's been quite slow to come along, as I have been busy with university. I've been messing around with some ideas as to how the downtown core and other major nodes of the city could fill out and develop into more dense communities. At the moment, a lot of things are still rather unorganized as this was done in many separate pieces, and as my skills in SketchUp have been evolving, some buildings are done much better than others. Designs will get refined over time as I continue to work on this.
Now, one might ask, what is the point in doing this? There really is no point, I just find working with SketchUp fun and really like to be able to visualize ideas like this. Hopefully it can also help give inspiration to people in terms of how we can develop this city.
The first area that I have been focusing on is Mississauga City Centre. At the moment, it is very empty, despite being the heart of Mississauga's development at the moment, so one could only imagine how it will change as all of the Square One parking lots begin to fill in with development in the future. I have done some modelling work detailing how I would envision the area getting developed. In terms of office buildings (shown in black) offices will develop over major parts of Square One, using the footprints of the large retail stores as podiums. These will surround the central area of the mall. This makes it appear similar to the Moscow International Business Centre in Russia, where there are large office buildings surrounding a central mall. Residential buildings (shown in gray) develop similarly to how they are already developing in Mississauga (mainly drawing from PSV and M-City), for the most part, where large empty blocks become home to two or three towers joined by a podium. In these images, there are also other buildings with various uses shown in lighter gray, including a soccer stadium (hoping we get a CPL team and stadium someday), a hockey arena (I'm hopeful for a second NHL team in the GTA as well), hotels, and additions to the Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus. Everything in white is proposed or under construction.
I'm going to keep updating this thread as I go along, in addition to my other thread about the active development proposals. I hope everyone enjoys!
A couple of months ago, I first started working on SketchUp renderings for proposed developments in the Mississauga area. Now that most of the significant proposals have been fleshed out, I've started working on another SketchUp project in regards to future developmental concepts for the city of Mississauga. It's been quite slow to come along, as I have been busy with university. I've been messing around with some ideas as to how the downtown core and other major nodes of the city could fill out and develop into more dense communities. At the moment, a lot of things are still rather unorganized as this was done in many separate pieces, and as my skills in SketchUp have been evolving, some buildings are done much better than others. Designs will get refined over time as I continue to work on this.
Now, one might ask, what is the point in doing this? There really is no point, I just find working with SketchUp fun and really like to be able to visualize ideas like this. Hopefully it can also help give inspiration to people in terms of how we can develop this city.
The first area that I have been focusing on is Mississauga City Centre. At the moment, it is very empty, despite being the heart of Mississauga's development at the moment, so one could only imagine how it will change as all of the Square One parking lots begin to fill in with development in the future. I have done some modelling work detailing how I would envision the area getting developed. In terms of office buildings (shown in black) offices will develop over major parts of Square One, using the footprints of the large retail stores as podiums. These will surround the central area of the mall. This makes it appear similar to the Moscow International Business Centre in Russia, where there are large office buildings surrounding a central mall. Residential buildings (shown in gray) develop similarly to how they are already developing in Mississauga (mainly drawing from PSV and M-City), for the most part, where large empty blocks become home to two or three towers joined by a podium. In these images, there are also other buildings with various uses shown in lighter gray, including a soccer stadium (hoping we get a CPL team and stadium someday), a hockey arena (I'm hopeful for a second NHL team in the GTA as well), hotels, and additions to the Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus. Everything in white is proposed or under construction.
I'm going to keep updating this thread as I go along, in addition to my other thread about the active development proposals. I hope everyone enjoys!