PRESENTERS

FABRICATING TRUTH

 

 

 

PALLAVI SWARANJALI, Carleton University

 

Forging Architecture: The Contronymic Nature of Architectural Creation in the work of

 

Indian Ar. B.V.Doshi

 

 

 

 

STEVEN BEITES, Laurentian University

 

Context Through Awareness

 

 

 

 

KATIE GRAHAM, Carleton University

 

Architectural Storytelling in Virtual Reality: How VR Can Expand on Architectural Perception

 

 

 

 

TED LANDRUM, University of Manitoba

 

Poetry as Research: Fabricating Architectural Truth

 

 

FABRICATING IN SITU

 

 

 

SCOTT GERALD SHALL, Lawrence Technological University

 

Borrowed Intelligence: Leveraging Industrial Fabrication To Evolve Building Production

 

 

 

 

NAHID AHMADI, Carleton University

 

Asphalt Deserts: Rethinking the Architecture of Surface Parking Lots

 

 

 

 

DIETMAR STRAUB, University of Manitoba

 

A Beautiful Waste of Time: Operating a Snow Academy

 

 

The liberating environment of academia allows us to try out and then reject thousands of ideas. That is a process that no client will ever be willing to pay for. The

 

period spent studying landscape architecture and design is the perfect time to take risks and develop unconventional solutions while learning to follow – but also to

 

expand – the rules. This presentation raises fundamental questions like: Can design be taught? Why are we always so serious? Are designing and laughing a

 

contradiction in terms … or a dream team?

 

 

Plato founded an academy in an olive grove outside the gates of Athens. Here, he and his students enjoyed teaching, learning and wandering at leisure in the cool

 

shade of trees. The subjects taught were philosophy and science and the students called themselves academics. This great centre of learning, rich in trees, became

 

both a garden and a meeting place.

 

 

How to operate a ‘happy’ academy in a climate where people’s individual calendar is comprised by nine months of winter and three months of bad skating? What

 

could be more suitable for environmental fabricators than surveying ice and snow and developing a snow academy in this context?

 

 

For this Snow Academy, snow was initially gathered from parking lots, mainly due to the fact that this building material is cheap and abundant. Tons of this snow

 

was poured on a riparian clearing in an elliptical form. This classical shape acted as the white heart of the academy – radiating elegance and forming the centre for

 

additional snow structures. A field of columns as well as a generous ‘dining room’ complemented the peaceful setting. Thirteen bonfires in a late April night was a

 

way of saying good-bye in a dignified manner to this fleeting landscape. Gone, never to return!

 

 

 

 

 

JENNIFER SMITH, Auburn University

 

INCREMENTAL: Resilience through Disaster-Relief Housing

 

 

 

 

BRYAN HE, University of Manitoba

 

Making of the Hakka Vernacular

 

 

 

SOCIAL FABRICS

 

 

 

VALENTINA DAVILA, McGill University

 

Down the Back Stairs: Servants’ Spaces in Montreal’s Square Mile

 

 

 

 

LAWRENCE BIRD, Winnipeg

 

Dominion

 

 

 

 

ELLEN GRIMES, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

History's Future Fabrics: New Models for Historic Ecologies

 

 

 

 

NIKOLE BOUCHARD, University of Wisconsin

 

(H)our House

 

 

 

 

RYAN STEC, Carleton University

 

Making Public Space: Examining Walter Lippmann & John Dewey’s pragmatism as a

 

constructive expansion to the spatial theory of public space

 

MEDIATING FABRICS

 

 

LANCELOT COAR, University of Manitoba

 

Lignes d’erre: Tracing the History and Future of Force Flow in Structures

 

 

 

 

FEDERICO GARCIA LAMMERS & JESSICA GARCIA FRITZ, South Dakota State University

 

Master Building Complex Forms in the Absence of Graphics

 

 

 

 

JOE KALTURNYK, Winnipeg

 

The Temporary and the Intermediate: Strategies for a Better Dinner