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Radomsky, Lana

Situated in the heart of Richmond’s civic precinct, Minoru Park, the city’s largest park, has evolved into a dynamic community hub for recreation, arts, and culture. However, amid the city’s urbanization and a surge in the immigrant population, the park has become detached from the community that surrounds it, losing its connectivity to the urban fabric. The City acknowledges a need for improvement in areas of active living, mental, physical wellness, and a sense of belonging. To address these goals, this project proposes to integrate a site-specific dance design within the landscape. It introduces dance as a transformative element in landscape architecture design methodology, bridging a gap between physical and mental wellbeing. Dance is a potent design tool for unifying spaces through purposeful movement, intention, and communication. Minoru Park is explored as a site that integrates a variety of dance types from different cultural backgrounds to accommodate an active and diverse sense of belonging. The vision aims to be an inclusive space for all comfort levels, one that instills the value of dance in our everyday lives.

Richmond (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. LARC 598

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0442116

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

Unreviewed

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