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Klapstein, Evan

The act of altering our environment today is fraught with hoops of regulatory and legal permission. Existing outside these systems, the hedge in Vancouver lives invisibly to local bylaws and building regulations. The favourable local climate means they also commonly grow to dwarf adjacent buildings. This has created a discrepancy between scale and lack of regulation that positions the hedge uniquely as a spatial agent capable of soft, slow and subversive change. Overlooked by most, this project follows an individual gardener who has recognized the hedge’s potential and chose to act upon it. Going into the hedge, the gardener will experiment with the hedge as a living collaborator and co-conspirator across time, constructing a furtive new local architectural prototype that rethinks the nature of building and the building of nature.

Vancouver (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0432053

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

Unreviewed

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