We are pleased to announce YEE-O 2020 – Year End Exhibition – Online edition for this 2019-2020 academic year. This annual event celebrates the hard work and creative achievements of over 500 undergraduate and graduate students from every unit and level in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. Unfortunately, COVID-19 led to the cancellation of this in-person event, but sharing and celebrating student achievements must go on!
New Futures
Instructors: Lancelot Coar & Mercedes Garcia-Holguera
We are not in a crisis of the climate, we are in a crisis of the imagination. We are not dreaming forward and animating our future. Our practice, while acknowledging the impacts and projections of climate change has not yet collectively found a meaningful way to link science, traditional knowledge, empirical experience and our observations to what we are designing and planning for. We largely are planning for a future that looks like today, when the truth is, we must prepare for a new future that is coming and has not yet arrived.
This studio takes on the issue of climate change from a standpoint of an expanded, informed and proactive position. An optimistic one at that. Not a naïve optimism, but an aware and functional one. This studio proposes an engaged approach to designing wherein what is designed for not only is sensitive but active and participating in productive ways with the human and natural ecologies it resides within.
Paghalad
Alixa Lacerna
In Bisaya, my mother tongue, the word paghalad translates to offering. The project offers its life as a gift to whoever would find respite in performing, and in renewing their relationship with nature. It is a gift of reconciliation. The project combines Indigenous and Western values to propose a courtyard-theatre as an adaptive response to climate change.
Forks Research Center
Zhongbai Lin
The project at Forks aims to create a sustainable built environment and to mitigate the impact of climate change through both artificial and natural methods. The retention ponds created along the railway collect rainwater during high precipitation seasons, and they contribute to the proposed water treatment and recycling systems at Forks. A research center is developed to monitor the performance of the retention ponds and the floating treatment wetlands. The form of the research center is inspired by tissue system of aquatic plants, and it highlights the role biomimicry plays in sustainable architectural design.
Smoke/Garden
Sean Vandekerkhove
The project focuses on tackling the problematic climate future of food security within the urban context using the Forks as a testing ground for community gardens and processing facilities. The current Manitoba Travel building is redesigned to incorporate a small marketplace and meat processing facility including a smokestack that services both floors of the building. The rooftop spaces on the Johnston Terminal and Forks Market are converted into community greenhouses for growing produce that can then be processed on site. Working towards a system that incorporates growing processing and feasting that can be applied around the city.
Also part of New Futures: Daniel Brosas, Tomik Gharagyozyan, Sophia Leopold, Claudia Parrott, Cait Pele, Alex Squire