The project began with a comprehensive investigation to
discover and define the crucial elements of design in high
density housing that foster a strong and rich sense of community.
Both historical precedents and current Vancouver projects were
studied to determine their attitude toward community in dense
housing situations. I found the designs that were most
successful in preserving a traditional sense of community
demonstrated a far greater respect for one's individuality. They
provided a strong frame for variable urban living, which reflects
the pluralism of urban life.
The program for this thesis was a live/work community and
one live/work building within that planned community. The site
for this exploration was South-East False Creek.
The resolution of my proposal began with developing a new
housing fabric, a prototype that could be used at South-East
False Creek or in other areas of the city. The fabric I
developed is a more intimate, finer slice of the existing
Vancouver city grid. By maintaining some of the critical
dimensions of Vancouver's city grid, the design of the new fabric
can either fit into the existing grid or occur next to it. The
community plan provides several distinct adjacencies for the
buildings: live side, work side, park side and street/parking
side. My concern with the design of the building was to identify
a set of possibilities that are inherent in the community fabric,
which show the diversity of the building itself as well as the
flexibility of the space within the units.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/7964 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Muxlow, Robin Lynn |
| 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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