dc.contributor.author | Van Vliet, Marcus | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-09T12:43:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-09T12:43:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-04-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/83711 | |
dc.description.abstract | Edmonton’s abandoned Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta demonstrates a history of Western building practices in the 20th Century shaped by the colonial frontier mythology, a reliance on resource extraction, and the dissolution of humans from their surroundings. After over a century, the city’s architecture has become stretched between extremities of systematic patterns of tabula rasa developments and inauthentic historic preservation, resulting in a placeless urban landscape.
Through the former museum and archives, the thesis creates a regenerative architecture institute that redefines the roles and practices of architects to celebrate ephemerality, pluralism, and a connection to place. The thesis uses a paratactic as a methodology and a tool to inform a fragmentation and combination of the existing building and salvaged parts from local buildings slated for demolition. Informed by adaptive reuse and regionalism, the design imagines a new post-colonial vernacular for Edmonton based on non-extractive building methods. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Edmonton | en_US |
dc.subject | Architecture | en_US |
dc.subject | Regionalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Adaptive Reuse | en_US |
dc.subject | Institute | en_US |
dc.subject | Archive | en_US |
dc.title | Regional Reuse: Regenerative Adaptation of the Former Provincial Museum of Alberta | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2024-03-19 | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Joyce Hwang | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Steve Parcell | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Michael Putman | 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 |