Main Street Design Challenge Submissions
We invited Canadians to develop innovative, responsible, sustainable, and resilient design solutions for Canadian Main Streets.
Clip It Where You Want It
This design proposes a series of modules which clip onto the fences of certain businesses.
Won’t Be Long Now
This design proposes a series of self-supporting modules, in the goal of improving customer wait times and allowing merchants to use them as outdoor facilities.
Fresh Start: Back To Basics
Main Street needs to pick itself up, dust itself off and get back into the mix. With trust and friendliness, cooperation and compassion, we're all in this together. Let's build these relationships, let's get back to basics.
Revamping Ephraim's Place Community Centre
The project was developed whilst keeping in mind that Ephraim’s Place serves as a place of solace and togetherness for the community.
Designing for Inclusivity
HCMA created this document to help fill a gap in design knowledge around issues relating to universal washroom and change rooms in community and recreation facilities.
Urban Health Kiosk
Humans have made great strides in recent decades, but it is still resistant to infectious diseases. The population density in cities, extensive transportation networks between cities and countries and environmental degradation are important factors in the spread of diseases.
COLO(U)R NOT AN ISSUE
Designing the room on the street is essential for creating a vibrant, safe and healthy community.
The Room on A Street
Designing the room on the street is essential for creating a vibrant, safe and healthy community.
Outdoor, Productivity, Eco, Nodes (OPEN)
Through the commotion of COVID-19 there have been a variety of social dimensions radically flipped. This intervention focuses on the disruption of productivity and work. Productivity is in a strange state where many people have been forced to work from home.
Spacing Bench
After undertaking an indepth study of Aylmer’s main street, a number of concepts were developed for adapted and ergonomic comfort for users. This submission focuses on one of those ideas: the public bench.