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Kaizan, Iman Katherine

When architecture increasingly mirrors the fast culture of disposability, we are left with a built environment littered with consumable “products” rather than enduring vessels of cultural and social relevance, buildings whose values end at their aesthetic appeal in glossy magazines and their ability to seduce investors. Depth of social engagement, longevity, and meaningful connection to place become null and void. By speculative inquiry into creation and consumption, architecture should hold a position as an “inheritable” social artefact, establishing spaces that actively support cultural memory and reject the transience that characterises much of today’s urban fabric. Thus, the research utilises the CF Pacific Centre in Downtown Vancouver as a vessel for this framework, seeking to re-envision this innately consumerist typology as a repository of shared identity and collective meaning. It aims to change the trajectory of this “disposable” building where it positions itself as an “heirloom” worth inheriting; personal, grounded and enduring.

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448759

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

Unreviewed

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