Initial Master Plan - continued
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| Massey plans (1954), three plan
options superimposed over a topographic base map. |
Carleton University Library, Special Collections and Archives
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Information, which would shed light on the process of preparing specific
planning schemes during the spring and summer of 1954, is incomplete. The examples of rough or draft plans
shown to the left are only a few of many, which survive in either graphic or written form. None,
however, are annotated sufficiently to reconstruct a coherent sequence or
process.
The documentation held by the National Archives of Canada is extensive, thanks
to the donations which have been made; but these records do not
fully retrace all aspects of the planning. Many gaps remain.
The Massey (attributed) sketch plans (1954) are an interesting conceptual bridge from
Balharrie's plans of the previous year and the approved master plan from later that year. The three options
delineated in Massey's plans also follow the principle of mostly interconnected buildings, here enclosing one or
more exterior courts. Both these schemes and the 1953 proposals located the buildings to share the focal point
between the intermediate plateau.
In June 1954, at the fifth meeting of the ad hoc committee on building, several site
plan schemes were presented. It was then agreed that the group of architects which had been brought
together to prepare those plans should form a contractual association with Carleton officials. That
association was to be known as the Architectural Associates for Carleton College (later University).
It was initially composed of: Watson Balharrie, Hart Massey, Leon Dirassar, Eric Arthur, John Bland, A.J.
Hazelgrove, and Campbell Merret.