A spectacle in the [re]making
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
alternative: A spectacle in the remaking
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Loten, Calista
issued: 2025-02-25T18:57:54Z
issued: 2024-12-20
description: Post-industrial landscapes, voids left in the fabric of Rust Belt cities, present an opportunity for transformation, and the reclamation of a city’s identity. This project explores the tangible and intangible impacts of repair on a site that exhibits the agency to repair itself. Central to this exploration is the material identity of clay. As a core element in the history of Hamilton’s industrial past, clay represents not only the region’s manufacturing legacy but also the possibility for renewal. The project interrogates the placeness and cultural significance of clay as both a material and a medium of memory. Clay, with its malleable nature and ancient craft tradition, becomes a metaphor for the site’s ability to repair itself, reflecting its own material-making in a regenerative process. The building’s architecture, crafted with local clay, offers a narrative of resilience and continuity, inviting the landscape to reclaim agency in its restoration. Hamilton Brickworks —once a thriving industrial site—now stands abandoned with its past embedded in the physicality of the site and the production of bricks that shaped part of the city’s industrial development. By diving deep into the history of the Brickworks, this project builds upon research from its past to inform the repair for its future. The project aims to reveal what new relationships and experiences can be formed between people and the post-industrial landscape.
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note: A SPECTACLE IN THE [RE] MAKING 1A SPECTACLE IN THE [RE] MAKINGBYCALISTA LOTENCalista Loten A SPECTACLE IN THE [RE] MAKING2 3A SPECTACLE IN THE [RE] MAKINGBy Calista LotenBachelor of Architectural Studies (Hons.), Carleton University, 2021Graduate ProjectSubmitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture’In The Faculty of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture and Landscape Archi-tecture, Architecture ProgramChair:Blair SatterfieldCommittee:Daniel IrvinePiper BernbaumUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver©December, 2024i iiFront MatterCalista Loten A SPECTACLE IN THE [RE] MAKING4 5ABSTRACT Post-industrial landscapes, voids left in the fab-ric of Rust Belt cities, present an opportunity for trans-formation, and the reclamation of a city’s identity. This project explores the tangible and intangible impacts of repair on a site that exhibits the agency to repair itself. Central to this exploration is the material identity of clay. As a core element in the history of Hamilton’s industrial past, clay represents not only the region’s manufacturing legacy but also the possibility for renewal. The project in-terrogates the placeness and cultural significance of clay as both a material and a medium of memory. Clay, with its malleable nature and ancient craft tradition, becomes a metaphor for the site’s ability to repair itself, reflecting its own material making in a regenerative process. The building’s architecture, crafted with local clay, offers a narrative of resilience and continuity, inviting the land-scape to reclaim agency in its restoration. Hamilton Brickworks —once a thriving industrial site—now stands abandoned with its past embedded in the physicality of the site and the production of bricks that shaped part of the city’s industrial development. By diving deep into the history of the Brickworks, this proj-ect builds upon research from its past to inform the re-pair for its future. The project aims to reveal what new …
has type: Graduating Project
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0448125
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. ARCH_V 549
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90418