Ideas of typology are pursued, expanding on popular preconceptions of
automobile culture and strip architecture. The elements of type are investigated
through an analysis of their physical, social, and economic relationships. An
argument of complicity is developed as an alternative to the traditional "eurourbanism"
common to many municipal design guidelines. This position seeks to
work within the context of the existing city, taking pleasure in its margins, gaps, and
adjacencies.
Considering the particular physical, cultural and economic conditions of the
City of Richmond, this project is framed as the identification of an emerging spatial
conception and program/use. The physical space of the city is seen to be shaped
most directly by the inclusion of the automobile. The cultural influences of
immigration are read on the surfaces of the city and through building programme.
Economic realities shape the space of the city as a commodity to be constructed,
marketed, and consumed.
Through the analysis of the site and contextual conditions, strategies of
spatial investigation emerged: the folding of the plane of the city (street) into the
space of the building, the horizontal framing of the space of the city (serving as
reference and dis-locator to both the automobile and the body as these move
through the spaces of the project), and the assemblage of existing types to produce
hybrid/mutant types.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/5775 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Jacobson, Michael William |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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