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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

 

 

 

Since the invention of the automobile, North American cities have been challenged to provide new typologies of spaces to accommodate

 

the automobile. Besides the implemented roads and expressways, cities now had to provide a new space for the immobility of the car: the

 

parking lot. These asphalt landscapes spread gradually but consistently over the urban fabric of our cities. In “Rethinking a Lot,” a study of

 

parking lots by Eran Ben-Joseph, the head of urban planning at M.I.T., he explains that “in some U.S. cities, parking lots cover more than a

 

third of the land area, becoming the single most salient landscape feature of our built environment.”

 

 

Canadian cities with their boundless prairies are not immune from this issue. The extensive natural landscape arguably makes it easier for

 

people to dedicate vast lands to surface parking lots. Surface parking lots as utilitarian lands with their single and solitary land use sweep

 

through non-spaces in the cities, surfacing the social and cultural fabric of the city as one of placelessness. The issue of these surfaces

 

becomes dominant as they begin to spread over the dense urban environments such as our downtown cores. Winnipeg is an existing example

 

of this issue with surface parking lots occupying around 40 % of the land in downtown. This thesis seeks to redefine these spaces as spaces

 

of social and cultural opportunities by changing their conditions of permanency to a temporary state of land use. It argues for the necessity

 

to redefine these voids as an integral part of our environment not by promoting their demolition, but rather by exploring their role on our

 

everyday lives and their possible potential for future of our cities.

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo: Landon Lucyk [M2 Architecture]

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