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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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Milwaukee, Wisconsin has a rich industrial past as it was once home to various machine makers, steel corporations and automotive

 

parts plants. In 1915, populations began migrating to the city to take advantage of the burgeoning employment opportunities that

 

these industries had created. A large percentage of industrial workers were blue collar, middle class African Americans. De-industrialization

 

began in the 1970s, resulting in an economic downturn that has left Milwaukee’s North Side ravaged with issues of unemployment,

 

abandonment and crime. Today there are nearly 1,600 city-owned and 1,400 bank-owned homes as a result of the foreclosure crisis.

 

Additionally, the city owns approximately 2,700 vacant lots that are on the market for a whopping $1.

 

 

(H)our House is a design project that began by spending a significant amount of time on the ground, getting to know the place and the

 

people that live in Milwaukee’s Harambee neighborhood. Through several visits, the foreclosed homes and vacant lots that surround

 

the (H)our House site were documented. Through discussions with local residents, organizations and city officials, a thorough set of

 

documents were created that cataloged the urban spaces, architectural typologies, material palettes and human activities that exist

 

within the area. With these records, a pavilion was designed that transformed existing architectural typologies using salvaged materials

 

that are native to the neighborhood. These spaces were programmed to address the specific needs and desires of the local residents.

 

 

(H)our House proposes playscapes to create safe environments where local youth can engage in physical activities that foster recreation

 

and collaboration amongst residents and performance platforms to provide an urban infrastructure that enables the rich cultural acts of

 

art, dance, food and music to flourish within the community. Together, these interventions create a healthy urban ecosystem and provide

 

promise to Milwaukee’s under-served neighborhoods.

 

 

 

 

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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