The
general aim of the UBC Urban Studio is to use urban design to explore
emerging issues within the changing physical fabric of the Greater
Vancouver Region and larger Georgia Basin. The site chosen for this
year's Urban Studio is the Hastings Stree corridor.
The overarching goals of the UBC Urban Design Studio are
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to design for people and their real needs;
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use form and structure to make "places;"
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understand the various schools of urban design thought and to
experiment with their adaptation to local circumstances;
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provide a particular site with evocative visions for a complex
and dynamic urbanism;
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to enhance the economic, social, and ecological sustainability
of urban form, and of a selected part of the city in particular.
Studio
Intent:
The
study area for this year's studio is Hastings Street, from
its origin in Downtown Vancouver to its termination below SFU in
Burnaby. The intent of the studio is to provide ideas and visions
for the disparate and complex urban armature of Hastings Street.
Students in the combined studio involving planning, architecture,
and landscape architecture will conduct the visioning project, working
closely with citizens, elected officials and municipal staff for
the first 6 - 7 week phase of the project. The second phase of the
project will involve just planning and architecture students as
landscape architecture students will be otherwise committed.
Studio Goal:
The
goal of the 2001 Urban Studio is:
To
instill in students a basic ability to grapple with the astonishingly
complex competing demands made on urban space, and to contribute
proposals for this contested ground that best resolve these competing
demands.
Studio
Objectives:
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To survey a variety of cultural sources in order to develop
and asses historical perspectives on the relationship of our
physical real location in the world of the city (i.e. our life
in our body) and how the city reflects (or denies) that reality. |
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2.
To understand the complex interface between competing visions
of public and private space in the city, as demonstrated by
different schools of thought within the design and planning
communities, and varying points of view from area constituents
and stakeholders. |
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3.
To use the map (G.I.S.) as a means to find, critique, and represent
the competing visions of the city, both cultural and ecological.
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4.
To provide the Burnaby and Vancouver with evocative visions
for a complex and dynamic new urban circumstance. |
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5.
To enhance the economic, social, and ecological sustainability
of the city, and of this important transect in particular. |
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6.
To anticipate change and provide an urban architecture that
is capable of both change and persistence in the face of rapidly
evolving social and economic circumstances. |
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this class students will know how to:
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Interpret various maps of the city's cultural and physical infrastructure
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2.
Understand certain key philosophical/political paradigms as
they relate to intervening in the city (i.e. City Planning,
Urban Design, and Urban Redesign). |
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3.
Arrive at defensible proposals (defended on specific ideological,
economic, ecological, or social bases) for intervening in the
city. |
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4.
Learn how our body, our being human, influences what we see,
feel, know, and believe - use this understanding as the basis
for appropriate and defensible design intervention. |
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5.
Use mapping as a means of making "architectural" proposals (architecture
understood in its broadest possible sense) at scales between
on block and 100 square kilometers. |
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6.
Learn how to collaboratively produce a voluminous body of work
produced. |
THANK YOU!
We owe a great deal of thanks to the City of Vancouver for providing
support for the production of this website and the graphic material
contained herein.
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