As the City of Calgary continues to cultivate growth within its urban core, the success of new public spaces will be defined by their ability to become entrenched in a continuously transforming context while adapting to the changing seasons and anticipating the unpredictable. C-Square marks a moment in time where a dramatic evolution of the City Centre is taking place. Located in the new East Village development, this project will become a hub for urban connectivity in an urbane condition.

The existing site is challenged with the anomaly of the C-Train (Calgary’s Light Rail Transit) which runs north to south-west through the site. Infrastructure is what drives the existing site condition; in this infrastructural landscape how do we create a dynamic, habitable urban condition? By sharing the function of transit as a utility for movement, and transforming it into a place of social exchange, this project reconceptualizes infrastructure, as the opportunity to influence conditions of social spaces and construct inimitable spatial experiences.