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An Indiegous Garden

For Native Child and Family Services and in collaboration with SSA Studio (Toronto ON, CAN).

Photographs of EarlyON Child and Family Centre’s new outdoor play area, including an indigenous garden and small gathering place. Image credit: Ngai Chiu

Turning a former vehicular loading area into a small green oasis.

The Malvern EarlyON Childhood Education Centre is a comprehensive, re-imagination and retrofit of an existing community commercial space in Malvern Town Centre. A retrofit of an existing community commercial space within an aging and under-used mall that is imbedded in an expansive parking area in suburban Toronto.

The site was chosen for its proximity to the large and active Indigenous community in this part of East Scarborough and to re-consider the mall as a community hub, expanding the existing commercial model to include an array of social services such as TDSB classrooms and Immigration Services.

Image: Google street view of the Malvern Town Centre, and its vehicular loading area.

An indigenous miniature landscape (135m²) within an parking lot area with a natural, ungroomed, and hardy planting scheme of multi-seasonal interest.

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An Indiegous Garden

Turning a former vehicular loading area into a small green oasis.

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