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Patel, Hemi

This project explores how a myco-wood hut in clear-cuts can cultivate regenerative material lifecycles and reframe human-nature relationships. In the Pacific Northwest on Vancouver Island, forests are too often reduced to their economic yield, yet these old-growth ecosystems are vital lungs of the planet—holding carbon, life, and memory. Clear-cutting fractures these critical ecologies and our ties to them. In response, this project brings together trees and fungi—kin in the forest—as building materials (wood and mycelium-based composites) in an attempt to create material lifecycles that are more regenerative and reciprocal in practice. These huts are an exploration toward accountability and stewardship, seeded with life and decay, designed to be deconstructed and decompose. Rooted in reciprocity and interdependence, the work reimagines architecture as an offering to participate in repair and an invitation to dwell with care in the wake of the Anthroprocene.

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448856

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

Unreviewed

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