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

 

 

 

 

JENNIFER SMITH, Auburn University

 

INCREMENTAL: Resilience through Disaster-Relief Housing

 

 

 

 

BRYAN HE, University of Manitoba

 

Making of the Hakka Vernacular

 

 

With earth, water, fire, wood, and metal, the Hakka people of China have evolved a way of living in and with the world. The development of the Hakka people and

 

culture can be traced back to 317-589 in the East Jin Dynasty, from the Central Plain regions to the southern regions, through five major mass migrations, for over

 

1700 years up until the beginning of the republic of China in 1912. The Hakka is the only Han Chinese group that is named by the language it speaks (Hakka), as

 

opposed to its geographical region (e.g. province, county, or city).

 

 

The Chinese character of Hakka (客家) is literally translated to “guest families.” The name emphasizes the Hakkas’ view that ancestral roots, guests and families

 

are unlimited to time and geographical origins. The way the Hakka people inhabit the land by fabricating in situ, growing in situ, cultivating in situ, and worshipping

 

in situ, reflects the Hakka’s view of understanding oneself in situ.

 

 

The land in the mountainous regions of China along the borders of three southern provinces: Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong is the homeland of the Hakkas.

 

Hakka is a culture that is dependent on the land it dwells, and interwoven with the landscape that supports the culture to flourish. For the Hakkas, to dwell in the

 

landscape means to transform a natural place to enable generations of Hakkas to secure the well-being of its people from birth to death, from cradle to grave. This

 

paper illustratesthis symposium’s theme, fabrication in situ, through documentations and case studies from a field study of Hakka buildings in the summer of 2017,

 

with scholarly research and historical references. This theme will be further explored through the study of vernacular Hakka building traditions and techniques, while

 

reflecting on the slow but collective method of architectural construction and practice, in relationship to the building and development of the Hakka culture. The

 

demonstration of the Hakka way of fabricating in situ aims to invigorate our sense of the world in relationship to human nature, and calls for a nuanced discourse on

 

cultural and environmental sustainability in the contemporary milieu.

 

 

 

 

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