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Garland, Sarah

Understanding that maintenane is architecture proposes an expansion of our consideration of materiality to move beyond serving a static image of a building, to design for more dynamic, and delightful places, in which communities see themselves reflected. Our current material practices prioritize durability and image over the spatial effects and connection to place offered by natural building materials, yielding generic buildings and a lack of engagement between people and their environments. Embracing maintenance revalorizes the use of natural building materials to suggest a cultural fix, rather than technological, to our nearly exhausted material supply chains, and highlights the material richness and spatial effects they offer. Using a coastal recreation area in eastern Newfoundland as a testing ground, this project proposes a series of built interventions in the landscape and a small community building at the water. The proposal explores the use of local natural building materials of stone, wood, and lime, and seeks to engage with an existing network of volunteers who steward the hiking trails here. This architecture will require active care by its occupants, but the result will be delightful places that people will be invested in, and so, pleased to steward and care for.

Newfoundland and Labrador; St. John's (N.L.)

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0442279

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

Unreviewed

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