Due to recent closures and down sizing within the logging and fishing industry on the periphery of the Clayoquot Sound region of Vancouver Island, economic sustainability for the permanent inhabitants who depend on this activity has become sporadic and inadequate. A thriving tourist industry contributes a limited income to the area due to seasonality and offshore ownership. This project proposes a research facility that would develop diversified industries that would preserve existing ecosystems while supporting the economic rights of the inhabitants. The project would supply immediate and direct benefit to the town of Ucluelet and surrounding area through complete integration of the facilities and program into an existing economic environment. Involvement in construction and supply of materials, income from billeting students and parking, involvement in research strategy, and employment benefits from the research being done, are essential targets. The institute should operate as a satellite graduate program facility in conjunction with existing research colleges and, be the headquarters for other "satellite campsites" incrementally set up and established in the surrounding area; sites chosen for their uniqueness in ecological existence and economic viability. The outdoor nature of the academic program sets the precedence for a lifestyle that is comfortable being exposed to outdoor elements. Courtyards and work areas are created by strategic setbacks, by fragmenting and staggering the facility and by exaggerating roof overhangs and gutters necessary to channel extreme winter rains. The external circulation of the back spine of the main building suffuses throughout the site developing a central circulation core; the pivoting point for access to the administration, the research shed, the "campsite" dormitory, and for the knuckle of the institute, the central courtyard. The courtyard which evolves has public access from the walkway that starts at the public sidewalk of Peninsula Street, cuts diagonally past the main entrance at the south-western corner of the archival gallery, and continues past terraced research gardens to the seminar room. An external stairwell facilitates the final descent to Lyche Street, a public restaurant, and the proposed community hall near the government docks of Ucluelet Harbour; a linkage designed to activate and encourage pedestrian traffic at Lyche Street. The public/private overlapping of the project insures that the integration attitude is in place while presenting unique design opportunities. The building typology exploits local post and beam construction knowledge and uses common materials from local sawmills to provide a rough, unfinished cladding left subjected to weathering. The roof surface is punctuated with translucent skylights to facilitate a condition of light and life under the eaves. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of / Graduate

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Post occupancy evaluation is part of a design-evaluation-design cycle in which designers learn from their successes and mistakes and subsequently improve their designs. But, if designers want to make most effective use of information collected in such studies they must be done reliably and validly—few studies give evidence to justify such a claim. In the present study, two commonly and interchangeably used POE observation methods (direct observation and time-lapse photography) were comparatively tested in order to assess their reliability. Reliability concerns the extent to which different observers or the camera yield the same results in observing the same situation. The test case was conducted in a heavily used urban space and much of the data, from observer to observer, and observer to camera, was found unreliable. Reliability decreased as pedestrian frequency increased but not so uniformly that data from this study could be used to determine an exact number of persons that can be accurately mapped. Reliability "checks" should be made in pretesting of direct observations, also in retrieval of data from film. Direct observation and time-lapse photography can be used conjointly with the intent of using camera as an accurate basis against which to assess the reliability of direct observations, but with precaution taken to ensure the accuracy of camera data. Standards of reliability and validity, with simple tests or approaches to measuring them need to be developed in order to make it easier for researchers to “check” the reliability and validity of their findings. / Master of Landscape Architecture

The fundamental premise for this project was the desire to explore one of my fascinations with "movement" of space and “movement” of structure. This was somewhat a reaction to “static” boxed structures which have pervaded our eastern cities for the last few decades, and moreover, a want to inspire life into a fixed object. The work presented was a process of discovery, the most enlightening being that of "contrast". It became the key to achieve meaning My original intentions combined with changes experienced over time have resulted in a building, but better, in a transformation and another new place from which to begin. / Master of Architecture

<i>It is very important for human kind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the users a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.</i> - Barragan - A simple shelter can fulfill the needs of the body, and the placement of the elements of construction in their relative positions can provide for the needs of the mind, but only the profound interrelationship of the elements of construction and the elements of experience can touch the spirit and move us deep within. Le Corbusier stated that: <i>the purpose of construction is to hold things together and of architecture to move us</i>. I hope that by applying these thoughts to my architecture, I may discover the point of intersection where the eternal and the finite meet, where the forming of finite elements awakens the spirit within man and causes him to dwell on the eternal. I hope to use the creation as a source of information to transform a material reality into a spiritual experience. / Master of Architecture

A multipurpose facility for the village of Novaggio, Switzerland was designed to provide the following: ∙ space for a primary school for grades one through five ∙ a multi-use community space ∙ a storage area for the regional fire department ∙ a storage area for the municipality A linear organization was chosen to create an easily organized and economically constructed building which might be easily expanded in the future. A low profile was desired and was achieved by limiting construction to one story. Indigenous materials and forms were utilized to create a minimal impact on the extant character of the town. / Master of Architecture

Beams of light can create volumes of darkness that help define an experience. That is an experience of darkness. Light and darkness in the enclosed space make me respond to myself. It is a canyon empty of everything, yet filled with the total absence of light. And the quality of this darkness is uniquely bewildering, what's more, a thick and viscous mass of black air that seems to brush against your face, limitless and seething. It is darkness visible. Darkness forces me to be isolated from the world. Without any external input, I start to talk to and hear from myself. As well as, I start to feel my body from top to toe with all senses except for the sense of sight. It goes slowly, and the interaction with myself, which is experiencing darkness, puts my mind in calm. In that level of calm, the experience of darkness wanes as we adjust to the environment, gradually becoming aware of people and walls and even faint shadows. This project is an attempt at designing spaces that allows a person to be absorbed in darkness. / Master of Architecture

The literature on participatory design has often communicated that participation in the design process is beneficial. If participation is good, then is more necessarily better? The purpose of this study is to determine whether participants’ satisfaction in the participatory design process and the resultant design is dependent on their level of participation in that process. Two different groups of citizens from the Hamilton-Kerns neighborhood in S.W. Roanoke participated in the design of their neighborhood park. One group was involved in a traditional design process at a low level of participation; the other in a process at a higher level of participation. At the culmination of all workshops, participants were questioned about their satisfaction in the design process and the resultant design, The results suggest that the level of satisfaction was not dependent on level of participation. Rather, the determining factor for level of satisfaction was whether or not the individual had participated in the design process. / Master of Landscape Architecture

Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Architecture (Professional) to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017 / The aim of the facility being designed is to focus on the resident by utilizing healing architecture, the notion that architectural elements and design effect ones well being. The disease Tuberculosis will be used as a platform for this exploration. After much research, it is evident that the Tuberculosis (TB) problem is worse today due to inadequate health care facilities and ineffective treatment methods, which do not handle the issue with the urgency it deserves. Currently, TB is treated for a very limited period of time in hospitals. Once this time is up, most patients are able to return home where they have to be self medicated. This is a dangerous, expensive and unreliable practice, as neglecting to take ones medication regularly can result in other strains of TB being developed. This is clearly a weak and irresponsible method of treatment, and therefore this report proposes that the health sector returns to the traditional methods of treating the disease, which is through isolation and a long period of confinement in a recovery setting. This investigation will be performed through analysing forms of health architecture and how to achieve a humane space for long term patients. Plants featured strongly in this investigation, and therefore research into the role planting has in healing architecture has been emphasised. / XL2018