The goal of this project is to design an urban place which incorporates the power of the
forest, specifically water, canopy, green and light. The site chosen is an area proposed
for residential development, a site which is presently functioning as a parking lot in the
'Mid-Campus' section of the University of British Columbia. The area of concentration
is the area proposed as open space and its connections to the community centre and
the surrounding neighbourhood. In order to create a place of powerful experience, I
chose phenomenology and associated strategies as a method, working through stages
of 'landing', pattern articulation and precedent exploration. These qualitative elements
were combined with site structure and program analysis to produce a final design which
incorporates three main spaces: Main Mall Plaza, Thunderbird Centre and a reflection
pool and rehabilitated forest area. Main Mall Plaza joins the rest of campus with this
site, also serving as a social hub and place of prospect over the ocean. Thunderbird
Centre provides space for many of the ammenities needed by this new communitity,
and is designed with a terraced pool plaza which accentuates the presence of the
forest beyond the plaza edge. Numerous walks then wind through the forest and into
an existing second growth wood, where the experience of canopy, green and light is
accessable.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/14617 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Isaac, Katherine Michelle |
| 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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