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Schoug, Brendan

The research in this thesis looks to understand the single-family home within the context of Vancouver as it relates to and is a result of property and zoning controls throughout the cities history. The thesis intends to understand the single-family typology as inherently an architectural form of separation that has been maintained and perpetuated as a result of North American ideological embedding within the lawful practice of property designation. As such, the thesis finds methods in which fundamental characteristics of property and separation, specifically the between property line, can be subverted and reutilized as inhabitation space rather than separation space. The intention here is find distinct bottom-up methods in which the single-family neighbourhood may densify and diversify in its house types through processes of change from individualism to collectivism. The thesis considers ideas of self and community building as a method for incremental infilling of the neighbourhood at the between property scale to develop a scaled neighbourhood morphological change system. This system would empower individual development actions by neighbours which together would fundamentally shift the physical and social milieu of the neighbourhood. The resulting method developed is a housing typology that, through a series of distinct and gentle mutations, quickly produces a collectively focused dense housing network within the dominantly uniform and low-density single-family neighbourhood.

Vancouver (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0432046

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

Unreviewed

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