Wateridge Village development [Hemlock Rd, Codd's Rd] | U/C

[McDonald's Racoon]

Originally Posted by rocketphish

I doubt that this is what most people want either. The seemingly random over-use of colour here is clearly an attempt to disguise the fact that these are low-budget boxes of buildings with little architectural merit. Sadly, very few architects seem to have figured out how to make a classy-looking social housing project.

I don't think it's that difficult to use colour effectively, especially in this contemporary, cost effective design style. This trend of colour blocking has been quite popular in recent years and the best looking designs seem to always have a distinct colour pallet and they keep the use of colour simple yet effective. In the design rational for the Wateridge buildings they talk about creating circles by connecting their values with those colours but that isn't present at all in the design... Anyways here are a few effective uses of colour blocking for affordable housing:

https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/collections/affordable-housing/

[J.OT13]

Fleury Twitter thread.

#ArrivProperties, the development brand of
@OCH_LCO
having its first public meeting for #Mikinak in #WateridgeVilage - rental, mix-uses, green and affordable buildings.

#PropriétésArriv, le bras pour les nouveaux développements d'
@OCH_LCO
de #Mikinak au Village des riverains.



Glad to join colleague and board member
@rawlsonking
for tonight's consultation.

Des propriétés locatives, abordables, durables et à usages variés,

Un plaisir de me joindre à mon collègue et membre du conseil d'administration d'LCO - Rawlson.



3 buildings, over 270 mixed size and mixed income units.

3 bâtiments avec plus de 270 unités ayant une grandeur variées et qui ciblent un éventail de niveau de revenu



Centrally located within #WateridgeVillage

Au coeur du Village des riverains







https://twitter.com/MathieuFleury/status/1407495060275568647

[drizzo_613]

[McDonald's Racoon]

Ouf, looks dreary....

[Admiral Nelson]

Originally Posted by McDonald's Racoon

Ouf, looks dreary....

Wait 5 years and the trees will add a nice green canopy.

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by McDonald's Racoon

Ouf, looks dreary....

It looks especially dreary compared to the rather funky similar format buildings going up all over the Plateau.

[rocketphish]

Updated renderings for 715 Mikinak Road. Goodbye primary colours... hello tertiary colours. Still looks like a children's hospital.











http://webcast.ottawa.ca/plan/All_Image%...tural%20Package%20-%20D07-12-21-0068.PDF

[OTownandDown]

Good on them for going all-out with the colours. I hate half-way, single panels of colour (red panels at Claridge on Nepean that look like the building is injured...). Why not just coat the thing in wild shades. .

What we don't see enough of in Canada is gradient colour. Why do we have to go with a mish-mash?


https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AHAC4M/110520...-marzahn-00p180511d294caroex-2AHAC4M.jpg

Originally Posted by rocketphish

Updated renderings for 715 Mikinak Road. Goodbye primary colours... hello tertiary colours. Still looks like a children's hospital.

[OTSkyline]

GOD that is ugly. Thank god it's in a forgettable area where it will most likely be out-of-sight, out-of-mind.

Agreed, it looks like a children's hospital or some type of homeless shelter / housing which tend to go overboard with colour or designs like this to try and scream "Guys this is a happy place! This is not depressing at all! Happy Happy Happy here!"

[McDonald's Racoon]

All children's hospital jokes aside, it's an improvement. The transitions are well done and look planned, I'd remove the floating colour panels and leave certain areas white so that the sides with the colour stand out.

[movebyleap]

Wow! I am LOVING the colours!! Enough of the greige!!!

I did love the primary colours but the slightly altered ones are still passable. My only fear is that, this being Ottawa, the final product will actually turn out to be 50 shades of beige!

[lrt's friend]

Got to fit in with grey of Ottawa's long winters.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by lrt's friend

Got to fit in with grey of Ottawa's long winters.

Bright colours in winter can look like a bloody gash ...

[rocketphish]

I thought I'd check out Mattamy's 360 Condos in Wateridge this week and see if there's a crane up yet. There isn't, but it can't be far off.





November 2021
Photos by me

[J.OT13]

Short video discussing the OCH project at 715 Mikinak.

• Video Link

[kwoldtimer]

Any sign of progress on the mixed-use condo buildings to the west of this project?

[rocketphish]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Any sign of progress on the mixed-use condo buildings to the west of this project?

Yes. I went by earlier this week, and they are still working on the parking garage for the first of the four buildings.

[rocketphish]

Also, Mattamy has picked-up yet another block of land in Wateridge Village where they intend to build a low-rise residential planned unit development consisting of 176 units in 9 4-storey back-to-back stacked dwellings.

The elevations resemble the stacked townhomes that Mattamy built at the other end of Wateridge.

Development application:
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applications/D07-12-21-0231/details

[GeoNerd]

Originally Posted by rocketphish

Also, Mattamy has picked-up yet another block of land in Wateridge Village where they intend to build a low-rise residential planned unit development consisting of 176 4-storey back-to-back stacked dwellings.

The elevations resemble the stacked townhomes that Mattamy built at the other end of Wateridge.

Development application:
https://devapps.ottawa.ca/en/applications/D07-12-21-0231/details

Woof! What in the Barrhaven is that?? So much surface parking. Also the subject site doesn't match the land use map. They must be changing the road network somehow.

[rocketphish]

Originally Posted by GeoNerd

Woof! What in the Barrhaven is that?? So much surface parking. Also the subject site doesn't match the land use map. They must be changing the road network somehow.

Yes, apparently Canada Lands has changed the road network in Phase 3.