The project under investigation here is a museum facility to house the full
collection of historic Canadian trains currently on display at the existing Canadian
Museum of Rail Travel located in Cranbrook, British Columbia.
The site of the proposed museum is on a narrow strip of vacant land bordered
along one edge by an operating railway yard and on the other by Highway 3/21 the
major transportation route through Southern British Columbia. The intention of
this siting is to allow the proposed museum to act as a backdrop to the city providing
both a buffer between it and the industrial developments beyond the rail yards, as
well as a reconnection of the City to the railway on which its history and
development has been so dependant.
The building itself is organized as two buildings (or layers) lying along side
each other like rail cars on a series of tracks. The first building (entry building)
houses the public activities of the museum including entry and information, gift
shop, tea room/ cafe, temporary gallery, administration offices, archives,
shipping/receiving and entrance to the orientation theatre. The second building
(the train shed) houses the body of the collection and museum including the
restored train sets and cars, elevated discussion space, orientation theatre, and
restoration workshops. These two main buildings are connected by a long narrow
spine which provides circulation from the entry building through the orientation
theatre into the train shed and the collection itself. The spine also houses display
areas and visible archives along its length which provide the passing viewer with
further explanation of particular aspects of the museum's collection.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/4445 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Thorkelsson, Paul Hunter |
| 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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