STANDARD | Designed by HEATHER DUBBELDAM + TANIA URSOMARZO | RESERVE THIS ROOM

This room designed by two architects is a sleek and sophisticated conceptual "room within a room".

ARTIST STATEMENT

Artists/architects team Heather Dubbeldam and Tania Ursomarzo have created an installation representing a cross-section through the primary planes of the building - walls, ceiling, and floor - in two “wrapping” architectural expressions that are an organizational device for the requirements of a hotel room. An element of skeletal construction echoes the structural framework of the room and wraps vertically around the space, supporting a floating bed plane, side tables and desk surface, while another plane wraps horizontally about the walls, referencing the window in the form of a continuous strip of light. Combined, these two elements integrate all the programmatic components of the room, floating within the existing restored Victorian shell.

ARTIST BIO

Heather Dubbeldam is Toronto-based architect and photographer who runs a multi-disciplinary design firm and architecture practice. As Vice-Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) she is actively involved in promoting architecture in the community at large. Her photography work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada and has been published in numerous newspapers, books, and design magazines.

An architecture graduate of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, Tania Ursomarzo is an artist and designer in the body of an Architect. Tania engages in both solo and group-based art projects while working as an Intern Architect in Toronto, balancing her art and architectural pursuits. Tania’s on-going personal work explores textiles, jewelry, printmaking, and installation. Her work has been featured in Canadian Interiors and Espace magazines and she has participated in various shows, including most recently, Come Up to My Room (Feb. 2005) at the Gladstone Hotel.

THANKS | Florin Dumitras @ DDF European Design
Georg Unger @ Kobi's Cabinets
Stan Trtanj @ Modern Age Plastics
Stuart Samuels @ Downtown Rug
Alex Dordijovski @ BO Creative Steel
Onder Cakmakci @ BCY Structural Engineer
Jonathon Bayer and Andrew Sebok @ Jomar Electric
Michael Cheng @ M + K Cabinet Architecture

CONTACT | Tania: 416-884-3149
tania.ursomarzo@sympatico.ca

Heather: Represented in Toronto by the Ingram Gallery and Archive Gallery.
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 258
Toronto, ON
M5V 3A8
T. 416-913-6757
heather@dubbeldam-architect.com