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Starnino, Jayden P.

RURAL COMMUNITIES HAVE ALWAYS REQUIRED INGENUITY. Increased exposure to environmental pressures coupled with decreased access to resources means people become skilled with local materials. A lack of training facilities means people share knowledge among each other, and divide tasks. It’s a kind of living that demands a sort of rugged egalitarianism. The usefulness this prompts is incredibly empowering. This thesis seeks to investigate a resilience planning response to ever increasing climatic pressures. Tasks like acquiring food and water, mechanical repairs, and building maintenance are important parts of the surviving daily life away from city resources. These patterns manifest in the built environment and inform a physical response. After decades away from their land, members of the [The Ranch] community are looking to return home, and require housing. Rather than continuing the practice of importing more grossly-unspecific modular construction units or living in ill-equipped three-season trailers, the community has voiced interest in addressing resilience planning while revisiting traditional methods of understanding and building on their land. The history of Métis self-sufficiency, coupled with existing resilience planning efforts by the community at The Ranch, offers an opportunity for a culturally and regionally specific case study. While the efforts (and the successes) within this community are site specific, many of the attributes will inform principles that apply elsewhere. Similarly, studying the site’s shortcomings will inform means to strengthen future construction efforts, increasing it’s resilience while learning from, and responding to, a unique history of place. How might we address safety and security in the community with culturally and regionally specific self-sufficient shelter?

Saskatchewan

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0442054

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

Unreviewed

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