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Adams, Haley

What motivates people to ski in the backcountry? To brave the elements and venture into mountainous terrain? To endure hours of uphill struggle and cold air? This project would argue it is in pursuit of a flow experience, an exceptional state where time wraps, distraction fades, and the only existence is the union between the skier and the snow-clad wilderness. If the pursuit of flow is the reason thousands of skiers venture into backcountry mountain ranges, is there value in designing to support the psychological cycle of struggle, release, flow and recovery? This project will consider the flow state as a choreography, with specific moments of immersion and awareness choreographed into the four day Spearhead Traverse in the Whistler Blackcomb backcountry. This project is a celebration of our humanity and our capacity as adventurers, fusing psychology and architecture in the aim to elevate the pursuit of flow in this mountain journey.

British Columbia

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0442317

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

Unreviewed

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