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Animalized space Ma, Hoiyan
Abstract
The Great Acceleration, biodiversity loss, and animal welfare are topics that alarm the repositioning of humans and nonhumans in the future. What if, in a post-human future, animals become the dominant species on Earth when humans are extinct? How could they utilize the architectural space humans leave behind. This thesis will dismantle the dominant role of humans, analyze natural and architectural space from the perspective of different animals, and imagine the transformation of built environments when animals moved in and occupied them. I picked Lasserre Building as the examined object in the representation. To no surprise, it is a rectangular form; the straight lines and right angles follow the conventions of modern architecture. However, these mundane elements are perceived differently by nonhuman species - for instance, dragonflies and birds see straight lines as distorted curves and rectangular columns as trapezoids; coyotes and canines only see color patches because of their blurry and short-sight vision. With this brand new understanding of the human-made environment, through detailed perspective analysis, the project moves on to visualizing animal interpretations in an aging building while civilization faded out and discovering what modernism looks like in Animals’ perception.
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Animalized space
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2022-05
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The Great Acceleration, biodiversity loss, and animal welfare are topics
that alarm the repositioning of humans and nonhumans in the future.
What if, in a post-human future, animals become the dominant species
on Earth when humans are extinct? How could they utilize the architectural
space humans leave behind. This thesis will dismantle the dominant role
of humans, analyze natural and architectural space from the perspective
of different animals, and imagine the transformation of built environments
when animals moved in and occupied them. I picked Lasserre Building as
the examined object in the representation. To no surprise, it is a rectangular
form; the straight lines and right angles follow the conventions of modern
architecture. However, these mundane elements are perceived differently
by nonhuman species - for instance, dragonflies and birds see straight
lines as distorted curves and rectangular columns as trapezoids; coyotes
and canines only see color patches because of their blurry and short-sight
vision. With this brand new understanding of the human-made environment,
through detailed perspective analysis, the project moves on to visualizing
animal interpretations in an aging building while civilization faded out and
discovering what modernism looks like in Animals’ perception.
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eng
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2022-05-10
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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10.14288/1.0413526
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Unreviewed
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Graduate
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