dc.contributor.author | Glover, Nicholas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-29T14:30:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-29T14:30:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08-27 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82858 | |
dc.description.abstract | The wastescape is a type of de-industrialized and contaminated landscape. Bound by
water and unseen in urban areas, they often remain outside of our consciousness. Current
remediation practices involve intensive operations to rid harmful toxins; however, they
exchange improved environmental health for social disconnect and erasure of place.
These issues of remediation are approached through an ecological and social lens,
observing wastescapes as working landscapes. The architecture emerges from analyzing
our past and present perceptions of water infrastructure and deconstructing the ground as
layers of natural and cultural stratum. Reusing the Powerhouse building site in Victoria,
British Columbia and its remedial methods, the project proposes a new urban strategy,
a series of pavilions and a water treatment plant. This thesis makes evident the site’s
natural processes while acknowledging its industrial past, ultimately aiming to develop
an architecture that creates a public connection to remediation while revealing a vital
ecological landscape. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | architecture | en_US |
dc.subject | victoria | en_US |
dc.subject | british | en_US |
dc.subject | columbia | en_US |
dc.subject | powerhouse | en_US |
dc.subject | rock | en_US |
dc.subject | bay | en_US |
dc.subject | water | en_US |
dc.subject | treatment | en_US |
dc.subject | plant | en_US |
dc.subject | social | en_US |
dc.subject | ecological | en_US |
dc.subject | ecology | en_US |
dc.subject | remediate | en_US |
dc.subject | remediation | en_US |
dc.subject | contaminate | en_US |
dc.subject | contamination | en_US |
dc.subject | waste | en_US |
dc.subject | landscape | en_US |
dc.subject | landscapes | en_US |
dc.subject | wastescape | en_US |
dc.subject | wastescapes | en_US |
dc.title | Out of Site, Out of Mind: Reading the Ground as Architectural Language in Waste Landscapes | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2023-06-22 | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Steve Parcell | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Michael Putman | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Joyce Hwang | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Catherine Venart | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |