PRESENTERS
FABRICATING TRUTH
PALLAVI SWARANJALI, Carleton University
Forging Architecture: The Contronymic Nature of Architectural Creation in the work of
STEVEN BEITES, Laurentian University
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
ELLEN GRIMES, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
History's Future Fabrics: New Models for Historic Ecologies
NIKOLE BOUCHARD, University of Wisconsin
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]
The 2018 Atmosphere Symposium is co-chaired by: Lisa Landrum and Liane Veness with the support of the Faculty's Cultural Events Committee and the Centre for Architectural Structure and Technology (C.A.S.T.); web design and graphics support by Tali Budman (ED4 Architecture student), and administrative support from Brandy O’Reilly (Faculty of Architecture, Partners Program).
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