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!
Alexander Docks
Instructor: Anna Thurmayr
Located along the western bank of the Red River in Winnipeg, the Alexander Docks is an important public place that has been abandoned for many years. The Landscape Architecture Studio aimed at discovering how this river property could be revitalized and turn into an outstanding green infrastructure, embracing ideas of community identity, local recreation, water protection, and sustainable living. Students examined the area in order to reveal and inspire local synergies.
The studio started off with following questions: How is the Red River linked to the downtown area and how could they potentially affect one another? How to enhance the Exchange District’s cultural heritage and the Red River’s neglected natural beauty? How to stabilise the hydrological regime of the Red River? How to design for day and night, urban and wild? How to reactivate a neglected place while keeping the outstanding memorial importance of it visible? Key requirement for all proposals was the creation of public access, lush tree shadows, and finest water entertainment.
Tributary Tears
Megan Anderson
This design proposal for the Alexander Docks aims to guide people to the waterfront. The main intention is to use the ebbs and flows of the Red River to acknowledge and raise visibility of the issues hidden within its waters. Driftwood and trees swept ashore by flooding are emblematic of ongoing erosion and tree loss along Winnipeg’s rivers. The discovery of Tina Fontaine’s body on the docks brought greater awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, many of whom are yet unrecovered from Canadian waterways. However, the site is also situated within a mixed-use neighbourhood with many cultural attractions. Through this redesign, the goal is to embrace the site’s complexity, making it usable for pleasure, learning, and mourning.
Alexander Dock
Kartik Kumar
Balcony over Alexander Docks
Fatima Mahmood
Balcony helps to provide a place to the people of Winnipeg to come and plant on their own. This could help in engaging different institutions and individuals to interact. For the winter use, temporary shelters would be provided over the plots to protect the gardens. Tina Fountaine Memorial still owns the significance in order to maintain the identity of the space. Watering/ Water filling spots are provided in between the plots to celebrate water as an important element of life.
Urban Sundeck
Michaela Peyson
One of our most profound need is for a sense of identity and belonging, and a common denominator is how we find identity in landscape and place. The landscape, therefore, is not merely what we see, but a way of seeing: we see it with our eye but interpret it with out mind. The landscape can, therefore, be seen as a cultural construct in which our sense of place and memories inhere. Through the act of daydreaming, one can connect with memories, as memories are a way to revisit the past and carry it forward. The Urban Sundeck provides this environment to enable this interpretation of the mind of daydreaming about uncovering history, as it is surrounded by multiple views and situated to capture the sun. The connection to the history of the Exchange District will be enhanced as memories are embodied in living society and always evolving, whereas history only represents what is no longer.
66 Trees
Naomi Ratte
Responding to the differing audiences, worlds views, understanding of the site and individual connections to the MMIWG in Canada, 66 trees seeks to become a place for individuals to gather, reflect and remember our shared history. These lessons are critical to understand and meditate on in order to have an informed future.
WANDER: Winnipeg in Moments
Kenworth Sayson
WANDER is about promoting and expanding the City of Winnipeg’s active transportation initiative and public transportation. Through analyzing the existing infrastructure such as bus routes, trails, protected bike lanes, access to the Red River, an intervention is proposed at the neighborhood scale to better connect points of interest and promote alternative means of travel. At the center of it all, the Alexander Dock and Alexander Avenue is re-imagined as a gateway into the Exchange District.