- Independant designer / consultant specializing in academic and performance spaces
- 6 years industry experience
- M.Arch
Burl Crone designs classrooms, performance areas and related spaces & consults on master plans. He designs components (furniture and equipment), aids in facility design, excecutes basic project management and is a real amateur in front-end web development. He pioneered classroom and lecture hall design at the University of Toronto and applies the work methodology he developed there (i.e. primary source data collection and thorough, information based space analysis) to all areas of infrastructure design.
If you want it to work, you've got to collect the data and talk to the people.
Specialization in classroom design involves the nitty-gritty details which broader architectural firms have no time to sort out: space allocation on large and small scale, the wide portfolio of University room types and the minute details of spacing, lighting, power, finishes and acoustics. Burl's work includes straightforward AutoCAD drafting, design and space allocation from schematics to construction details, consultation with academic departments, negotiating administrative protocols and translation of information between the client and the outside architectural firm (if one is being used).
Burl spent 5 years as the University of Toronto in-house academic space designer, beginning during the completion of his master's. He originally documented over three hundred rooms - and lo and behold, when it came time to build new rooms he was the person who knew all the details. The position of classroom designer was invented for his role. Now Burl is freelance and can apply his hard-earned knowledge and experience over a wider field.
Burl has a master's of architecture degree (UofT 2008) but has not taken the provincial exam and so is not (yet) a registered architect. He functions in conjunction with architects and clients, filling in the voids and greasing the wheels. He can design your rooms, consult on future or existing designs and provide advice on the what you need and what performs best. He has worked as an arms-length consultant and also completed full project drawings from schematic to final construction.
Building academic or performance spaces? Expecting headaches, and worried about results? Than arm yourself. Get someone who's been there.
- 6 years industry experience
- M.Arch
Burl Crone designs classrooms, performance areas and related spaces & consults on master plans. He designs components (furniture and equipment), aids in facility design, excecutes basic project management and is a real amateur in front-end web development. He pioneered classroom and lecture hall design at the University of Toronto and applies the work methodology he developed there (i.e. primary source data collection and thorough, information based space analysis) to all areas of infrastructure design.
If you want it to work, you've got to collect the data and talk to the people.
Specialization in classroom design involves the nitty-gritty details which broader architectural firms have no time to sort out: space allocation on large and small scale, the wide portfolio of University room types and the minute details of spacing, lighting, power, finishes and acoustics. Burl's work includes straightforward AutoCAD drafting, design and space allocation from schematics to construction details, consultation with academic departments, negotiating administrative protocols and translation of information between the client and the outside architectural firm (if one is being used).
Burl spent 5 years as the University of Toronto in-house academic space designer, beginning during the completion of his master's. He originally documented over three hundred rooms - and lo and behold, when it came time to build new rooms he was the person who knew all the details. The position of classroom designer was invented for his role. Now Burl is freelance and can apply his hard-earned knowledge and experience over a wider field.
Burl has a master's of architecture degree (UofT 2008) but has not taken the provincial exam and so is not (yet) a registered architect. He functions in conjunction with architects and clients, filling in the voids and greasing the wheels. He can design your rooms, consult on future or existing designs and provide advice on the what you need and what performs best. He has worked as an arms-length consultant and also completed full project drawings from schematic to final construction.
Building academic or performance spaces? Expecting headaches, and worried about results? Than arm yourself. Get someone who's been there.
