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Between Figure and Ground: Articulating Heterotopia in the Suburban Paradox

dc.contributor.authorSimon, Holly
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Architectureen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Architectureen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerGeoffrey Thunen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorSteve Parcellen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerRoland Hudsonen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorCatherine Venarten_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-05T15:26:04Z
dc.date.available2013-04-05T15:26:04Z
dc.date.defence2013-03-19
dc.date.issued2013-04-05
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on exploring figure-ground within the amorphous suburban green space of Calgary, Alberta. It is an edgeless prairie city, flooded with unused space and tethered by freeways that stretch toward the infinite horizon beyond the mountains. The incessant need to own and parcel nature has created a landscape of excess where both city and nature are a blur at the edge of our distracted vision. Using expanded defi nitions of figure-ground as a design methodology, this thesis attempts to better understand this paradox and to act in its middle ground. Articulating a heterotopia between the ideal with the real, the public and the private, the natural and the artificial, this thesis explores a new imaginative space, delicately but firmly tethered to suburban ground and its elusive horizon. The results manifest in unexpected geometries on a thin strip of park between a backyard and a freeway in Calgary.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/21462
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectfigureen_US
dc.subjectgrounden_US
dc.subjectheterotopiaen_US
dc.subjectphenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectlimitsen_US
dc.subjectgeometryen_US
dc.subjectlandscapeen_US
dc.titleBetween Figure and Ground: Articulating Heterotopia in the Suburban Paradoxen_US

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