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!
ED4 Landscape + Urbanism Studio 6
Instructors: Richard Perron & Ryan Coates
A Breath of Moss
Emma Bock
A Breath of Moss is a moss garden intended to expose the variety of textures and colours this microscopic plant has to offer in the Shoal Lake 39 Community. The garden is a collection of moss species carefully transplanted to a designated area to create a moss garden. This garden will protect the large collection of native moss species in the area while providing a space for a beautiful attraction for the campers and visitors to stroll through.
Floating Modular Docks
Aaron Bomback
Lacustrine wetlands along Shoal Lake, Ontario, are critical ecological assets that keep the lake healthy. This project creates minimal disturbance to ecological services that occur along the water’s edge and littoral zone while responding to addressing how to tread lightly to protect sensitive waterscape ecologies. By working in collaboration with the Iskatewizaagegan people of Shoal Lake Reserve 39A, the concept design for modular floating docks explored how to move the human activity away from the shoreline and into the water. As the shoreline has no useable beach due to the need to preserve the lacustrine wetlands, the use of floating modular docks then takes on the role of creating a unique beach experience that reveals these waterscape ecologies.
Living with Zebra Mussels
Nicole Brekelmans
Zebra mussels are quickly accumulating in multiple water bodies across North America resulting in multiple issues within aquatic ecosystems. Living with Zebra Mussels is a project that aims at gathering zebra mussels within affected communities through an approach modeled after aqua-farming and oyster harvesting. The harvesting process allows communities such as Shoal Lake 39 to gain control over the invasive species by removing large quantities of these mussels by implementing removable mussel lines. Removing the mussels from the water will help regulate the increasing population as well as create an opportunity to profit from the zebra mussel shells through composting. By participating in these processes, the community will gain insight in water ecology and a sense of responsibility to protect Shoal Lake.
Soil as a Filter
Charles Calcott
Drainage has many impacts upon a site, Water that collects or drains across a site contain pollutants, thus through the collection and controlled drainage we can filter the water of pollutants, this would be applied to the landscape with a series of weirs, swales and dikes. These would control the flow and collection of water in different ways depending on the site’s usage and features. This system was devised through the idea that human impact upon a site should remain limited.
A “Phyt” For Plight
Tiffany Tsz Wai Lun
A “Phyt” For Plight is a proposal that aims to remediate the anticipated sources of contamination on site due to the expected programming through the process of phytoremediation. The three major programs are discussed; with each focusing on one main method of phytoremediation (phytostablization, phytohydraulics, or rhizodegradation) based on their possible contamination sources and the type of pollutant involved. Native, non-invasive and anticipated species due to climate change are listed with their characteristics and ability to remediate various types of pollutants; and are suggested with each program to the client as potential species for future development plans along with suggested designs to ensure a successful planting and phytoremediation process.
Retreat
Samantha Miller
After two visits to the Iskatewizaagegan #39 site, we learned that the band and elders were interested in projects that they could economically benefit from, and that would embrace the beauty and nature of the site. One important factor was employing designs that have as little impact on the land as possible. Retreat is a project that uses easily assembled light-frame aluminum docks that can be rented out during the summer. The camping platforms can be on the more ‘glamping’ side, or more basic. The docks are meant to have gentle and light cross bracing, to place as little stress on the shoreline as possible. This also creates a gentle relationship to the water, for individuals arriving by canoe.
Landscape X Lichen
Tristan Osler
Imagining a framework and approach to design at Shoal Lake 39 using lichen as a metaphor in action:
By emphasizing the lichen, and its subtleties we are met with meaning and emotion. We are reminded that this is the lichens home, and we are just visitors. We are reminded that we must be respectful, as we would in a friend’s home. Long after we are gone, the lichen will persist, long after the site is of use, the lichen will persist. Design is temporary but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have meaning. What we do on the land will last far beyond our lifespans, this doesn’t just apply to lichen but to all landscapes. These minute parcels of beauty remind us that there is more to design than form and function, but that design touches and effects every living thing.
N E S T
Shaheer Saad
A myth was born in the indigenous culture, believing that seeing an owl is an omen that will bring you a bad luck or even death. In reality, an owl is used by parents to scare unruly children, and is appropriated by evil doers. An owl is a messenger who can give us important warnings and is someone who could be our benefactor.
This project explores the potential of designing a gathering space. A space where the community can gather to share knowledge and heal myths and misunderstandings about the indigenous culture. The project envisions the gathering space in the form of a nest, a space where age does not matter. But a space where a mother and a child can come together to share things in common such as origin, culture, and teachings.