GREGORY BECK RUBIN. Remediating the Pointe des Seignieurs

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1 GREGORY BECK RUBIN Remediating the Pointe des Seignieurs The proposal for a large scale housing project in an industrial zoned neighbourhood in downtown Montreal lacks the design of new public spaces. Without these places to tend to the phases of transition between the new and old neighbourhood, residents risk loosing sight of the complex layering of events and technologies that characterize the area called Griffintown. A former industrial site on the southern boundary of Griffintown connects the neighbourhood to a public park. The linear park follows the edge of the Lachine Canal, facilitating leisure activities across the width of the island. Similar to the Griffintown proposal, the park development next to the vacant site, superficially covers over the neglect of an abandoned industrial sector known as the Pointe-des-Seigneurs. Below the surface of the linear canal park and the site is a thick bed of 19th and 20th century industrial waste, and the 4

2 artifacts of the technology which produced it. I propose to design a building to remediate the Pointe-des- Seigneurs toxic landscape, by literally washing away the contaminants. A new industrial building is situated at the canal s edge by the St. Gabriel locks and diverts water onto the site, enabling new forms of interaction between the canal, the landscape including the previously buried artifacts, and the participants of the park space. The project is built into the framework of the canal, is carried into the site by the topographic dynamics of the canal system, and alters the program of the linear park. It does this by introducing an industry into the site which enables the creation of new boundaries and around it for interpreting the complex layers of the site. 5 M.Arch Thesis and Comprehensive

3 GREGORY BECK RUBIN Remediating the Pointe des Seignieurs 6

4 GREGORY BECK RUBIN Remediating the Pointe des Seignieurs 7 M.Arch Thesis and Comprehensive

5 KEN BORTON Turning Ground Scrap harvest of Point Douglas: Images of a barter economy in discarded technology. This project looks for a re affirmation and re definition of site and culture where it has been once abandoned. The neighborhood of South Point Douglas, is a forsaken neighborhood in the municipality of Winnipeg. Time waits for Point Douglas. No one leaves, No one enters the city. Rather the culture, economy and the infrastructure only exists for its own sake. Trading in abandoned junk from the City, the Province and even the main rail lines of the country. Our material world is embedded with meaning. The act of making and remaking can be a profoundly cultural experience allowing one to uncover and evolve our technological, economic, political and social histories. Through the combination of a rigorous and creative approach to waste materials, a desire to engage the physical and psychological context, and the aid of new techniques in making; this project aims to produce a methodology for practicing architecture in an environmentally and socially meaningful way. This project proposes a speculative material and cultural narrative of behavior as an attempt to physically map out an approach to breaking stagnancy through self determination and acknowledgement of community. The design is developed as a series of imagined inevitable consequences of the residents of Point Douglas s interventions in their community. The projects are communal institutions recuperated from matter and existing program (as tenuous as both are) found and re used in the neighbourhood. 8

6 Mapping the activities and program of the hoarders. 9 M.Arch Thesis and Comprehensive

7 KEN BORTON Turning Ground Sheldon Blank prepares to defend his loot. 10

8 DAVE KARPENIC EBB + FLOW: Facilitating Seasonal Tourism This project proposes a low impact and sustainable approach to Nova Scotia s growing but unsustainable tourism industry. The complex of buildings presented here are meant to respond dynamically to rhythms of seasonal change: tourism to fishing and the micro-ryhtms of the tidal cycle. The thesis presents a series of lightweight institutional pavillions, each with a specific dual purpose. The program is seasonal: in summer it is for the tourist; winter the community reclaims the pavillions as a base for fishing and the maintenance of the tourist facility. Tourists are housed in small self sustaining pods fabricated locally. These pods are delivered to various isolated areas of the region by local fisherman. 11 M.Arch Thesis and Comprehensive

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10 DAVE KARPENIC Ebb + Flow 13 M.Arch Thesis and Comprehensive

11 JARET KLYMCHUK Ephemeral Architecture: Urban Housing for San Fransisco Dot Com Population The project proposes to develop and architecture that is responsive to current social dynamics addressing issues of speed, mobility, and malleability. The Project is intended to react to oscillating conditions, opposing traditional static architectural models. The proposed building contains approxiamtely 200 dwelling units of various sizes, with the ability to volumetrically oscillate. The structure would have the capacity to transform itself through the manipulation of component parts. This plasticity would be extended through a cross programming strategy that would further modify the spatial arangement. 14

12 JARET KLYMCHUK Ephemeral Architecture 15 M.Arch Thesis and Comprehensive

13 STEVE SHAW Freespace: A Micro Gravity Tourist Facility Freespace is designed to function as an eco/adventure tourist facility, staff and guests cooperate to maintain systems, prepare meals, gather and share knowledge, and experience micro-gravity. Freespace is divided into three sections: a learning Lounge The space is bisected by a rigid core housing a space telescope and removable experiment racks. Affixed to the exterior surface are Learning Pods electronic terminals for accessing the telescope, communications and an electronic library. At the trailing edge, the Galley provides a large, open and playful dining experience. Ovens and ventilation units contained within the dining pods. The central section of Freespace is open, containing the vomitorium, the swimming sphere, hygiene facilities, hydroponics labs, mechanical and ventilation systems and private sleeping quarters. 16

14 Structurally, Freespace is based on the NASA developed technology for the Transhab module. Essentially a large inflatable bladder of multi-layered construction, the fabric skin is nine times stronger than steel. An additional exo-skeletal truss provides rigid anchor points for docking, solar arrays and venting portals. Interior walls are inflatable and allow routing of electrical and ventilation services to be contained within. The design of Freespace facilitates a terrestrial construction method - the habitat is constructed on Earth, collapsed and transported into orbit where it is inflated. 17 M.Arch Thesis and Comprehensive

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