Item – Theses Canada

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OCLC number
62894980
Link(s) to full text
LAC copy
LAC copy
Author
Mitsch, George Robert,1976-
Title
Engaging adaptation.
Degree
M. Arch. -- University of Calgary, 2003
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2005]
Description
2 microfiches.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
Adaptable architecture. This is the conceptual base within a project that deals with the relationship between an owner and a tenant. Architecture is the meeting place for these participants. It is the mechanism through which the two interact. It holds distinct meaning for each participant, and as a form in the world, also engages its place beyond either user. This project will address the architectural relationship to place, (history, environment, and conceptual place within human place/situation), and through this primary scope, develop the idea of architecture holding elements distinct to stability/the owner, and variation/the tenant or user. Those architectural parts shall interact in a manner that reinforces each, and as the architecture holds out its values, so too, the owner/user relationship will establish itself along those lines which the architecture exemplifies. With time as an ongoing participant in this process of engagement with architecture, the design will evolve through direct interaction with the realities of built form, varied by the hand of the owner, that of the user, and the matter of the building and site. This is the experiment.
ISBN
0494010029
9780494010020