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

 

 

In 1920, the average US home represented an investment of about 20% of one’s income, whereas in 2010, the average home represented an investment of over

 

34% of one’s income. During this same time period, the waste produced by a single home had ballooned to over 3,000 pounds of solid wood waste and 1,800

 

pounds of engineered wood waste. These factors have curtailed homeownership and helped to created a growing population of renters, many of whom spend three

 

times more on rent than a homeowner spends on a mortgage — a situation that prevents these families from ever becoming homeowners and makes it difficult to

 

afford food, heat and other necessities.

 

 

If one performs an audit of other industries, a very different story emerges.    In 1920, the automobile cost 71% of the average income and 12% of US citizens

 

owned a car. By 2010, the cost was 16% and 81% of US citizens owned a car.1 During this same period, the environmental footprint of the automobile shrank, as it

 

did in most other industries. For example, Samsung has, over the last decade reduced their waste by around 200% and IKEA has shifted production so that over

 

88% of their waste is either recycled or the energy used, recovered.

 

 

Grounded in these practices, a group of faculty, students, developers, activists and industry leaders are generating a new model of building production, specifically

 

engineered around the questions posed by affordable housing. This model, which brings together personalities and approaches from a range of industries, is

 

projected to decrease, by half, the cost and time associated with housing while, simultaneously, reducing the home’s environmental footprint and increasing its

 

appraised value. Moreover, as the techniques used are socially-responsive and digitally-derived, the intelligence gained from each generation can be embedded in

 

subsequent works — an arrangement that is present within most industries but absent in the production of affordable housing.

 

 

1  All statistics courtesy of the US Census reports for the time periods cited. US Census Bureau Reports 2010, 1980, 1950 and 1920.

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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