Jae Rivera

Advisor: Carlos Rueda

The image features a faint brick corridor overlaid with textured patterns, creating a grainy effect. A semi-transparent figure in motion, shaded with red and yellow, adds a surreal, ethereal atmosphere.
The map highlights "Downtown East Neighbourhoods" in green, with shades of red indicating percentage values and key areas marked. Tables on both sides list neighborhood data, with streets, boundaries, and a river clearly defined. 1/2
Analysis highlighting various neighbourhood clusters, overlaid with percentage population data of distinct ethnic groups within Winnipeg.
The image shows three urban maps with a blue zigzag structure traversing varied layouts, surrounded by black buildings, pink pathways, and green vegetation. Central sections highlight landscaped parks or gardens with detailed features.
Plans that explores an intervention within Central Park in the attempts to capture temporality and modularity.
The image is a digital collage blending ancient arched structures with modern architectural forms, set against a textured background. A translucent human figure floats horizontally, adding an ethereal touch to the composition.
Collage embodying the spirit of liminality in which immigrants often perceive their environments.
The triptych showcases layered collages of historical, cultural, and societal elements, blending traditional practices, urban life, and market scenes. Each panel emphasizes distinct themes like historical events, contemporary activities, and cultural diversity.
Collage attempting to capture diverse cultural narratives prominent in Winnipeg’s Central Park.
The collage-style map highlights urban zones with colored overlays for social housing, commercial areas, and neighborhoods like the Exchange District. Hand-drawn annotations, red boundary lines, and labeled photos emphasize key landmarks and urban features.
Site analysis of Central Park showcasing potential cultural zones in relation to existing housing, commercial areas, and open spaces to highlight intersections for engagement.
The image showcases a futuristic architectural concept with overlapping grids, 3D forms, and transparent layers against a muted cityscape background. The design emphasizes intersecting beams, reflective surfaces, and a blend of digital and physical elements.
Conceptual rendering of depicting modular frameworks, emphasizing transparency, adaptability, and community interaction.

Canada is seeing an influx of immigration in light of recent times. The country has welcomed families from around the globe and the city of Winnipeg has been one of the nation’s leaders in celebrating this multiculturalism. Immigrants and their future lineages are faced to adjust their identities to suit their social environments through a tension between generational traditions and a contrasting society throughout their lifetime. While exploring the phenomena of liminal spaces with architect Ignasi de Sola-Morales theoretical term of terrain vague in Winnipeg, the purpose of this research is to generate an architectural framework that captures the liminal condition these individuals experience, formed by the informal process of cultural transition the everyday lives.

A few questions are of interest when addressing this phenomenon and enacting it onto architecture and urban design. As immigrants relate to constant modes of transition, how can this internal tension between tradition and new be recorded? How could transcultural spaces express legitimacy within the liminality of the urban fabric? How can architecture and urban design provide for the temporal and spatial cultural adaptability for both the immigrant populace and a mundane society while registering the narratives of change?

The thesis will focus on providing a public programme to hold an archive that expresses this liminal condition and explore theories related to adaptable architecture and metabolism. Furthermore, negotiate a qualitative dwelling that expresses this transformation of culture and identity and serve as the genus loci for this phenomenon. There is a weight to situate the project between the peripherals of established neighbourhoods, such as Central Park and the Exchange District, as this dichotomy holds an urban subjectiveness of place identity experienced through the individual and communal psyche. It is with the intention to develop site(/s) of collective memory in a constant reorganization, redefining itself, speaking back to the public, and is conceived throughout generations.