Johanna Hurme

Johanna Hurme is a co-founding partner of the Winnipeg-based practice, 5468796 Architecture, which has received local, national and international recognition[1][2][3] and has been considered a "catalyst for change".[2] Her firm’s projects demonstrate innovative approaches to local site conditions and human connections[4] in spite of affordable budgets and economical material use.[3][4][5] Her firm's social conscience, combined with ambitious interrogations of each new project add design value to the given project but also elevate standards and promote Canadian architecture.[3] Hurme's activism and community engagement also often uses design to question and add value to urban conditions.[5]

Johanna Hurme
Born
Helsinki, Finland
Alma materHelskini University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba (FAUM)
OccupationArchitect
Practice5468796 Architecture
BuildingsOMS Stage, 62M, Bloc_10, Migrating Landscapes, Parallelogram House, James Avenue Pumping Station, IW09
ProjectsChair your Idea, Table for 12
Website5468796.ca

Background

Hurme was born and grew up in Helsinki, Finland.[4][2] A high school exchange[1] placed Hurme with a family on a Manitoba prairie farm 2 ½ hours Northwest of Winnipeg,[6]in a hamlet of 12 people.[1] During the course of the exchange, Hurme visited Winnipeg and the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba.[4][6] Later, after completing a degree from the Helsinki University of Technology, Hurme returned to Winnipeg.[7] In Winnipeg, she completed a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree and Master of Architecture degree at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba (FAUM).[8] It has been suggested that the environmental design focus of the FAUM program continues to influence Hurme’s attention to local site conditions.[4]

Career

Hurme is a co-founding partner of the award-winning 5468796 Architecture, located in Winnipeg, Canada.[9] She established the firm in 2007[9] with co-founder and University of Manitoba colleague Sasa Radulovic (from Sarajevo),[10] after the two worked together at Cohlmeyer Architecture.[4] Colin Neufeld (from Winnipeg), a former university colleague of Hurme and Radulovic, later joined 5468796 Architecture as a partner.[11] Hurme's buildings have received many design awards[12][13] and have been widely published.[14]

Boheimer Residence

The 2009 Boheimer Residence, developed by Hurme while working at Cohlmeyer Architecture, rethinks a detached family home based on the specificities of the client and site conditions.[4] Located along the Red River on the periphery of Winnipeg, the building site had an existing modern home which had been renovated multiple times.[4] Instead of re-renovating, Hurme removed the existing building, leaving only the sunken pit and foundation walls.[4] The unique void of the previous building became an exterior courtyard around which to wrap a new U-shaped home.[4] The low courtyard and vertical masses of the house became a point of contrast with the horizontal prairie landscape.[4] The inversion also provided opportunities for more views (both to the landscape, and across the courtyard back into other wings of the house) and program features such a climbing wall for the clients' young children.[4]

5468796 Architecture's Bloc10, a midrise housing complex

Bloc_10

Hurme, Radulovic, Neufeld and the 5468796 team project were awarded a 2012 Governor General's Medal in Architecture for the Bloc_10 project in Winnipeg's River Heights community.[15] It demonstrates creativity in a building type normally known for tight budgets where these budgets are often considered an excuse for poor or average design work.[15] The Bloc_10 midrise, affordable housing complex makes condo living less generic and more like living in a house.[16] The residential units are organized across a spine of staircases that allows each of the units to, like a house, have an upstairs and downstairs and views in at least two directions.[16] The white-box concept (the units are unfinished apart for fitting with basic plumbing, electricity and ventilated air systems) means each home can be customized to the specific preferences of its owner.[16] The diverse forms of the interlocked units, and screening details around exterior balcony bring interest, variation and complexity to the economical materials of the enveloping rectangular form.[16]

Migrating Landscapes and the 2012 Venice Architectural Biennale

In collaboration with Jae-Sung Chon (from the Manitoba University Faculty of Architecture), Hurme and Radulovic curated Migrating Landscapes, the Canadian representation at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.[17] The installation was inspired by Canadian narratives of migration, multiculturalism, and inclusivity.[17] The installation was unprecedented in its level of community engagement for a Canadian entry to the Biennale.[17] It migrated as a travelling exhibit and was presented in seven cities across Canada prior to its presentation in Venice.[17] It showcased an inclusivity in its integration of competition winning entries in its wood topographies,[17] and focused on the raw design process and collectivity rather than finished products.[18]

OMS Stage
5468796 Architecture's The OMS Stage, an open air performance space

Another well-known project to which Hurme has contributed is The Cube or OMS Stage, an exterior public performance structure, located in Winnipeg's Exchange District.[19] It received a Governor General's Medal in Architecture in 2014.[19] Questioning the possible uses of an open-air stage led the 5468796 Architecture team to designing a custom, flexible architectural metal grill could alternate as a bandshell, an off-time security barrier, an enclosure for an internal event or a projection screen.[19] Though the project has attracted significant attention an icon and for providing these additional year-round functions, it has also garnered critiques about maintenance challenges[20] and the enclosure's prevention of impromptu stage use.[21]

Parallelogram House

Hurme and 5468796 Architecture's Parallelogram House, which won the 2018 Governor General Medal in Architecture, is a detached single family home on a suburban plot in East St. Paul, Manitoba.[22] However, rather than implement the conventional square floor plan shape typical in most suburban neighborhoods, the footprint was skewed into a parallelogram.[22] The parallelogram-shaped plan provided longer facades and more window overlooking the front and back yard than a square of equal area.[22] The building also considered its impact on its context.[22] The building structure and exterior material of the project (including Corten, wood, and concrete) were detailed in a novel manner to visually shorten the home's walls along the property lines.[22] The parallelogram's corner structure and details are a twist on an colonnade rather than enclosed space, where the natural materials of the columns begin to blend with the trees on the site, minimizing and improving the impact of longer side walls on the property's neighbors.[22]

Style and method

Hurme believes in "bold and powerful" [23] architecture that is strategic and responsible in its resource allocation;[24] represents multiple voices; and is rooted in distinct site conditions.[23]

Hurme's respect for plurality is evident in her community engagement and interest in attainable housing projects, and has also influenced the design culture of 5468796 Architecture. The office name originates in the company incorporation number 5468796, because it represents the collaborative design practice of the office rather better than using the name(s) of managing partners.[25][26] Representing multiple heads at work together in the creative process, the members of the office sit around one large table.[27] Hurme has explained that, “Its about us as a collective. We’re like a think tank… trying to inspire Winnepegians about the design economy and about the public environment – places we live and should take pride in.”[28] Within this collaborative approach, Hurme “brings an editorial eye to all of 5468796’s work and is an intuitive thinker, often setting the conceptual tone for 5468796’s projects.”[29]

Hurme's intent to provide attainable quality architectural work is also evident in project aesthetics that originate in a processual logic of innovation to achieve client desires in the face of limitations.[30] It is focusing on the challenges of a project (such as fitting a program on a particular site, or finding ways to make affordable materials special) to exceed goals that defines the final projects.[31][30] Hurme has expressed that good design has an ability to express a larger message and convey an atmosphere.[32] Her architectural design builds on respect for Rem Koolhaas (of OMA)'s innovation in organizing program relationships and Peter Zumthor's use of materials and creation of atmospheres.[30]

Originally an outsider to Canada, Hurme's external insights have helped her see opportunities for change and improvement in urban living.[33] She has also stated that Winnipeg’s unique character[30] is an inspiration, and that she enjoys "shaping our city with every building we’re involved with.”[34]

Advocacy and education

Hurme is a committed activist and advocate in the design world.[1] She also promotes design to in the larger community and is interested in community ideas.[1] She has been instrumental in instigating events like the Warming Huts Competition, Chair Your Idea, and Table for 12 + 1200.[1] Hurme's fluency in social media influence her responses and promotion of causes.[1] In a presentation made at Ted x Winnipeg, Hurme explained the importance of design quality over quantity, economies of overlap or sharing, and the benefits of walkable density for saving money and time.[35] Hurme delivered these insights by relating architectural design thinking to good design in shoes.[35]

Hurme teaches and lectures nationally and internationally.[36] She has taught design at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, The University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, the University of Montreal's faculty of architecture,[36] and is Visiting Professor Morgenstern Chair at the College of Architecture, IIT, Chicago.[36]

Public leadership and recognition

Hurme is a board member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) as a regional director for Saskatchewan/Manitoba.[14] She has served as Director of Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce (WCC), and on the Council of the Manitoba Association of Architects.[14] She is chair and founder of the WCC’s Creative Council and president of the RAW Gallery Board of Directors.[9] She is the Founder and CEO of Design Quarter Winnipeg.[7] She was also awarded the Manitoba Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Emerging business in 2010.[9] She is at the forefront of a Manitoba initiative for Quality [and not fee] Based Procurement of architectural services.[8] Hurme is a member of the International Council of the Van Allen Institute.[36]

References
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  3. Bozikovic, Alex (June 13, 2014). "Reimagining Winnipeg: What these fearless architects can teach the rest of Canada". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
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