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Arron Griffioen

Arron Griffioen

101 - 680 East 8th Avenue. Vancouver, BC. V5T 1T1 arron.griffioen@gmail.com T + 1 613 618 4148

Education

2015 - 2018

UBC, SALA. Masters of Architectural Studies (M.ARCH) Graduating with honors June 2018

2010 - 2014

CARLETON UNIVERSITY. OTTAWA Bachelors of Architectural Studies (B.ARCH) Graduated with honors June 2014

2017

UBC, SALA - DESIGN + BUILD Camp Fircom, Gambier Island. Collaborative Student Workshop Collaborated with a team of students in developing a camp archery pavillion and range to fit the needs and values of Camp Fircom. The first half of the workshop was intensive drawing, model making, and mock-up process that led to producing a detailed permit and construction set in preparation for the build. The second half or build phase of the workshop was six weeks of on-site building. From site prep to finishing details, the entire operation was run by SALA students.

2016 - 2017

SQUARE ONE DESIGN + BUILD Carpenter & Designer Gained invaluable experience working with local trades as a junior carpentor for custom residential projects. Developed a hands-on craft and understanding of residential building assemblies and materials. Responsible for leading the design of several custom residential renovation projects in the design department.

2016

UBC SALA - COMMUNICATING CONSTRUCTION Teaching Assistant with Professor Greg Johnson Gained invaluable skills assisting in teaching students the essentials of construction documentation. Students were tasked with reviewing precedents, discussing various components, and producing documents for a student-designed term project. Students were offered an oportunity to further elaborate on their preliminary design skills through comprehnsive design development in preparation for construction.

2012, 2014 - 2015

CHPA - CRAVEN HUSTON POWERS ARCHITECTS Architectural Technician Involved in detailed design-bid-build process: dealing with clients, consultants, materials and building codes through a practical work environment. Produced architectural drawings for the Delta School District seismic upgrades. Colloborated with colegues on multiple architectural and landscape architectural projects from start to finish.

Experience

Publications

Academic Awards

2013-2014

SURFACE DEVELOPMENTS Architectural Modeling + Rendering Presented sales renders and marketing plans for two multifamily housing developments in Ottawa ON. Junction and 59 Percy. Met a series of hard deadlines while shcheduling part-time work during my architecture studies. Operated modeling software, rendering software and adobe suites.

2013

FORUM OF FEDERATIONS OTTAWA Graphic Designer Produced design and layout of the Forum of Federations annual report.

Designed pamphlets for annual meetings and workshops.

Operated adobe suites: Indesign, Illustrator & Photoshop.

Balanced part-time work during my architecture studies.

2013

BUILDING 22, EDITION 13 School of Architecture Annual Compendium Third year studio project and writing selected for Carleton University School of Architecture’s annual compendium, including: Upland Renewal, and Pier +

2010

BUILDING 22, EDITION 10 School of Architecture Annual Compendium First year studio project and writing, Cosmic Light, selected for Carleton University School of Architecture’s annual compendium.

2015 2013 2012 2012 2010 2010

Ray Cole and Perkins + Will Entrance Scholarship in Architecture Stantec Housing Award for Notre-Dam housing studio project.

Dean’s Honour List for academic excellence J. Lorne Gray Scholarship for academic excellence Carleton University Entrance Scholarship for academic excellence Advanced Placement Award for academic excellence in art

Additional Qaulifications

Software Proficiency: Revit, Autocad, Rhinocerous, Grasshopper, 3DS Max, Lumion, Adobe Suites (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Acrobat).

Sketching, Hand Drafting, Model Making, CNC Milling, Laser Cutting, 3D printing

Hobbies & Passions

I have a great passion of outoor adventuring and recreating in nature’s more remote landscapes, whether it be hiking, mountain-biking, sailing or backcountry skiing.

On my spare time, I find joy in making hand-crafted furniture or working with wood.

References

Alvin Bartel | CHPArchitects | abartel@chparchitects.com | (604) 793-9445 Greg Johnson | UBC SALA | gjohnson@sala.ubc.ca | (604) 827-3357 Josie Smith | Squareone | josie@squareonecontracting.ca | (604)316-9422

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About Me

Small scale: I am passionate about the process of designing and working by hand. Some of my most formative years in architecture were studying at Carleton University Ottawa where I was challenged to think through materials and human scale by drawing and crafting models by hand. These skills have translated to designing and building my own furniture around the house, to perusing work experience in construction for a more hands-on knowledge of material assemblies, to collaborating with a team of students on a two semester long design-build project where we brought a collective design from concept to reality.

Medium scale: This certainly is an exciting scale where we as designers are given great responsibility to choreograph spaces that people can experience and enjoy. Although, I am critical of buildings or sites thats sole purpose is to be an object of art. I believe that our designs should respond to context, history, culture and the natural environment. A theme that has been carried throughout my work both in undergrad and masters has investigated how we can better integrate our designs with the landscape and learn from natural systems.

Large scale: I have become increasingly interested in designing and working at the scale of the region or territory. Translating interests from the site scale to larger ideas of regional landscape systems and material resource flows. My master’s thesis researched the relationship between cities and the resource extraction required to sustain them. This led to a project that created a speculative management plan for both the second-growth forest and future development of the Upperlands area in West Vancouver.

On a personal note, I have a great passion for the outdoors, whether it be hiking, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, rock climbing etc. My favourite past-time is adventuring out in nature. Both growing up in British Columbia and getting exposure to awe inspiring landscapes around the world has made me question the role and responsibility we have as designers in shaping our environments, and is a theme that I wish to continue exploring throughout my career.

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EASEL CHAIR Easel chair draws inspiration from the painter’s easel. The painter’s easel is a simple yet refined object that serves the purpose of holding a canvas in an ergonomic position for painting. Without a canvas on its ledge, it remains a beautiful object that accents any room. The easel chair too takes this form with minimal parts positioned in a tripod stance. Constructed with hardwood cherry legs and support pieces, topped with a vacuum formed Russian plywood seatback and seat. Careful thought was placed in the ergonomic angle of the seat and seatback. It is not quite a traditional dining chair, nor a lounge chair, but finds itself somewhere in between for reading or working comfortably at a desk. All parts were made with traditional joinery to secure each piece with a minimal amount of glue. Designed and built in Ottawa during my undergraduate degree, it was important that the chair components were sized to be easily packaged and able to be shipped back to Vancouver for assembly.

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SALA DESIGN - BUILD SALA’s Design-Build is a graduate level workshop where I had the opportunity to collaborate with a team of friends and collegues and carry an architectural concept to reality. We worked as a team in developing our design of an Archery range pavillion to fit the needs and values of Camp Fircom. The site is adjacent to the main road which connects the government wharf with the rest of Gambier Island. Consequently, the site affords opportunities for engagement with the neighboring community, which has been an enduring goal of Fircom’s directors.

The inclusion of a tuck shop in the program combines storage space for archery range equipment with a small venue through which the camp can offer retail amenities to camp and non-camp residents. The Archery platform tactfully bisects the field into the range and the playing field. The covered platform provides shooting positions for up to eight archers with adaptable bench seating configurations that enhance the flexibility of the space. The exterior skin of the tuckshop is clad in burnt cedar and when closed, takes on a sculptural quality as a complete black cube suspended between the two horizontal planes. The dimensional lumber used for the beams and columns are spaced and tapered to convey the inviting warmth of heavy timber without undermining the light, airiness of the structure that appears to hover above the ground. https://blogs.ubc.ca/saladesignbuild/

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(1) Archery shooting platform, tuckshop behind.

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3X3 Wood columns 2x6" blocking provided between joists on top of built up beam 2x6" wood joist @ 16" o.c.

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tripple built up 2x10 beam typical on conc. footing galvanized steel beam saddle backfill w/ crushed gravel 12" sonotube poured concrete foundation

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1/2" plywood sheathing pre finished metal flashing 2x8" wood facia 2x6" wood joists

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(1) Construction documentation

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(2) Hand nailing roof joists

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(1) Pathway approach from camp center

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(2) Approach from main road

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(1) Archery pavillion south elevation

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IN THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS A playground of “other spaces” This project explores the relationship between the National Arts Centre (NAC) and the concept of heterotopia. As a site of extraordinary cultural production, the NAC opens up the possibility for “other” performances from the everyday, and so other spaces. It also, as an architectural problem, invites experimentation with methods – a further play on the themes of carnival and uncertainty as posited by this studio. As Michel Foucault describes, “heterotopias are real physical or mental spaces that act as ‘other spaces’ alongside existing spaces.” The mirror is a clear example of this: allowing one to see their self within the space they are in, yet the space that is perceived is from a virtual point, over there.

In this project, the mirror is a tool used in the kaleidoscopic process of creating mythic sites within real ones – whether on site, in model or in drawing - by means of reflecting, subverting, and destabilizing the conventions of practical design. Projected on site, the result is a heterotopic playground, similar to the spaces perceived in Piranesi’s Carcere etchings. This heterotopic playground acts as a major threshold or aperture to the NAC – a testing ground for alternative and subversive norms and conventions from which new spatial productions and appropriations of the city may emerge.

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(1) NAC Archive photo manipulated

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360 panoramic site photo

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(1) Exersise 1: Diorama installation

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Scenario 1: Pathways

Scenario 2: Staircases + Towers

Scenario 3: Layered Rooms

(2) Diorama scenarios

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(2) Rendered site plan

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(1) North section

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East section

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(1) Tower section drawing

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(2) Tower section drawing with mirrors

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UPLAND RENEWAL Botanical Research Centre Upland Renewal investigates the integration between architecture and the landscape by implementing an public greenspace ontop a botanical research centre at the core of an old industrial mill town. Encouraging visitors, local residents, and students to act as participants of its research, the Centre merges with its immediate natural suroundings and the wider Ottawa region, connecting Almonte as a figure of Ottawa’s greenbelt future.

The design turns its back, honoring the existing Town Hall in one sweeping landscape gesture. The public roof garden creates a diverse ecosystem for low and high marsh plants and dry upland plants to flourish. Students are provided with their own landscape to study and maintain. On the path up the green roof, visitors are connected to views that tell a narrative of both the landscape idenity and the towns industrial history. This project found that the revitalization and preservation of the landscape can provide social space for economic and cultural exchange in areas with a declining population and industry. Designed as a landscape form first, it acts as a contribution to our future environment.

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(1) Rendered approach from Queen Street Bridge

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The roof mimics upland to low marsh river bank

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(1) South section

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The building turns its back to honour existing town hall

(2) Rendered plans

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(1) Tech detail section

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(2) Kids exploring botanical roof (3) Main entrance to research centre

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VANCOUVER ART GALLERY In a city with exposure to so many people and diverse cultures, the new Vancouver Art Gallery has the potential to not only be a repository for art, but a testing ground for new ideas. The gallery uses the act of layering space to juxtapose and set up dialogues between those viewing art, those that are engaging with the production of art and those passing by. The Forum and Plaza layers reach out to the city to provide a meeting ground and a place for public debate. 21st Century galleries now more than ever have to respond to art at a wide range of scales and formats, from the display of traditional painting to atmospheric installations that can transform an entire room. This gallery strongly believes in the growth of art and culture in the city by placing workshops, classrooms, and performance art spaces on display back to the city.

This project was completed as a comprehensive studio requirement for the master’s degree of architecture at UBC. The scale and complexity of the building demanded a simple yet refined design. We were tasked using technical drawings highlighting the building’s environmental systems, detailed structural design, complying to local codes requirements, all to strengthen our overall concept.

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(2) View of entrance plaza (3) View across sculpture garden

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(1) Type A gallery model (2) Type A gallery render

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(3) W Georgia street view

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PIER + Pier + is an urban concept and architectural vision for the banks along the Ottawa river. This site bridges two neighbourhoods of different social classes while simultaneously hosting a major migratory bird stop in a newly rehabilitated wetland area.

Adapting to the current road circulation, major streets are extended towards the shoreline then transitioned to piers that hover over the landscape. The voids formed between the piers are a host to civic buildings, public parks and natural surge pools.

These tide sensitive piers activate the ecology, creating new habitats and breeding grounds for species to develop. An overlay of program including commercial spaces, theatres, schools, greenhouses and museums provide a catalyst for the community to become involved in conservation of the wetland.

Current concerns on globalization and sustainable development calls for collaborative exchange between architecture and the landscape. Through various sustainable measures and urban remediation strategies this project becomes a prime example of the relationship between our built environment and our natural landscapes.

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MALLARD DUCK MIGRATION

BLUE HARON MIGRATION

(1) A territorial map indicating the migratory routes of three key bird species

CANADIAN GOOSE MIGRATION

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(1) Tidal seasons (2) Four step concept

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(3) Site plan (4) View from across the Rideau River

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(1) Pier programs and details

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(2) Peir B render

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LAGOON FUTURES Lagoon Futures researches the potential futures of industrial lagoon sites for Hudsons Hope BC. This research is not meant to promote the Oil and Gas industry but to rather create a positive discussion with resource dependant communities alike about the possibilities of repurposing and re-appropriating existing and future lagoon sites for recreation, ecology and production. Year after year thousands of new lagoon sites are created to store wastewater from hydraulic fracking. Large swaths of land are cleared, excavated and temporarily set aside to store water - resulting in a pitted and scared landscape.

This project was presented as a series of pamphlets that cover a brief background on hydraulic fracking, existing lagoon typologies and how they are formed, an amenity guidebook for future recreation sites, a geocache campsite map of all the ecologically abstracted landforms, a guidebook for a wastewater treatment plant as a park/playground, and lastly a guidebook on how to transform lagoon pits into fish farms. Resource dependant towns such as Hudsons Hope endure the reproductions of boom and bust from cycles from the industries that support them. Through design I hope to demonstrate how to add value to what is left behind from a controversial industry.

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(1) Aerial image of fracking sites near Hudsons Hope BC

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(1) Amenity guidebook front

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(1) Geocache campsite front

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(2) Geocache campsite back

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(1) Versailles of the north front

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(2) Versailles of the north back

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(1) Fish farm front

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CONSTRUCTED FOREST Despite our long history of cultivation, many fetishize Canadian wilderness as an “untouched” landscape that stirs reverence and awe. Set against the pristine backdrop of the North Shore Mountains, Vancouver is the epitome of a city at the edge of wilderness. This wilderness edge has become the city’s brand and lure – a defining postcard image. This project questions current nature-culture relations by re-conceiving the divide between second-growth forest and developed land at the current urban boundary. The proposal closes the gap between sites of extraction and consumption by cultivating lumber from the North Shore Mountains as resource for development. Territorial scale infrastructure sets up protocols for fluid forms of industry, habitation, and recreation into an interdependent, built and cultivated landscape.

Completed as my graduate thesis, this project stemmed from a semester long research focused on feedback loops between sites of extraction and sties of consumption, or more specifically feedback loops between forests and cities. The second semester was dedicated to selecting site and seeing through a project at a territorial scale. The Upperlands area in West Vancouver was chosen as the site for interrogation. Charged with contested ideas on the future of the 7000 acres of undeveloped lands above the1200 foot contour line, this site not only affords the opportunity to develop a management plan for both the second growth forest and future development, but also re-invent the postcard image of the city.

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(1) Postcard image of the city

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A condenced history depicted in this timeline collage of the North Shore Mountains tells a story of a changing landscape and changing views on nature. It can be read in three distinct chapters:

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North Shore Timeline Drawn by author.

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Ownership British Pacific Properties

Regional Growth Strategy 2040 District of West Vancouver

Special Study Area Developable Land

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Little remains of old growth forest in the area due to clear-cutting. Historical practice of monoculture replanting has eradicated common species found in these costal forests. The second growth forest is nowhere near as biologically diverse as it once was.

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(1) Development plan: highlighting oldgrowth forest, riparian corridors and steep slopes.

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Productive Edge Figure 71

Productive Edge Section. Drawn by author

Whereas in Hilbersheimer’s scheme, the main arterial corridor is a highway, my scheme conceives of this corridor as a productive edge that integrates movement of forestry goods with public transportation and recreation. This section shows these three speeds of transportation coming together, industry along the edge and the public path in centre.

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Industrial Spine Figure 73

Industrial Spine Section. Drawn by author

Unlike in Hilbersheimer’s scheme, the industrial spine is used for both industry and public transportation with the use of a furnicular cableway. Branching off of furnicular cableway stops are pedestrian oriented pathways that connect to a central courtyard rather than a cul du sac. This section shows a view of one of the funicular cableways running along side logging infrastructure .

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Forest “Room” Figure 75

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Residential Room Section. Drawn by author

(1) Section Diagrams Development within the residential rooms are defined by the view across the bay, limiting the scale and height of buildings as well as the size of cut within the forest. Residents turn inward as aposed to privatizing views of burrard inlet. Housing is combined with comercial spaces that spill out into the central coutryard.

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Construction Materials Construction Materials Felling Machine Felling Machine Felling Machine Lidar Scan and Data Analysis Lidar Scan and Data Analysis Lidar Scan and Data Analysis

3 axis Logging Infrastructure

Managed Succession Logging Infrastructure. Drawn by author

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Construction Materials

Infrastructure Uses. Drawn by author Managed Succession

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Infrastructure Uses. Drawn by author

Infrastructure Uses. Drawn by author

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second growth forest

tively drop down and fell individual trees.

second growth forest

trucks, and for the use of moving trucks, building and formaterials the use ofand moving trucks, goodsbuilding around and formaterials the thesite. use ofand moving goodsbuilding around the materials site. and goods around the site.

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Harvested Lumber

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Planted Western Red Cedar

Hemlock

Hemlock

Douglas - Fir

Douglas - Fir Western Red Cedar

Predominant Types

Predominant Types Figure 79 Managed Succession.

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Managed Succession. Drawn by author

first stepgrowth sees the forest selectively thinned of unhealthy or redundant existing tress building materials. EradicatThe example this project will introduce is managed succession. Here we see the current state ofThe the second Managed Succession Managed Succession ed species such as theisWestern Red Cedar are plated in replacement of what is logged. forest in the Upperlands area. As shown most of the species found in coastal rainforests have been eradicated. What left is two predominant types.

Introduction of drought - tolerent species

Added diversity to second growth forest

Harvested Lumber

Harvested Lumber

Planted Douglas-Fir & Maple

Planted Douglas Fir & Pacific Yew

Hemlock

Hemlock

Douglas - Fir Western Red Cedar Pacific Yew

Broad Leaf Maple

Predominant Types

Predominant Types Figure 80

Douglas - Fir Western Red Cedar Pacific Yew

Figure Succession.

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Managed Succession. Drawn by author

Thematurity fourth step The second step is to thin trees that are nearing the end of their lifecycle or reaching harvestable and naturally replac- thins the forest again removing trees at the end of their lifecycle or redundant and replaces 78are changing (2) Speculative logging infrastructure (3) Successional Forestry them with drought tolerant trees. As scientist study the makeup of forests, we are learning that forests ing them with added diversity of non-predominant tree species found coastal rainforests.

compositions to respond to climactic changes. Forests found in California will one day migrate North to Vancouver.

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Phase 1. Drawn by author

Existing condition between existing development and forest at 1200-foot contour line.

Figure 85

Phase 2. Drawn by author

Introduction of lugging infrastructure and productive edge transportation routes.

Figure 86

Phase 3. Drawn by author

Edge thickens with mixed use development and public program. Funicular cable extends up into forest for future development

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Phase 4. Drawn by author

Development commences around funicular transit stop above. Funicular line extends below 1200-

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foot contour line as lots agglomerate for new development. Agglomerated lots open up space for managed forest to be reintroduced in place of vehicular streets and yards.

(1) Development phases

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Vignette 2. Drawn by author

“The Productive Edge” - This vignette shows light industrial maker-spaces mixed within the commercial and civic edge. Users engage with the new edge condition at desired speeds or modes of transportation.

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Figure 91

Vignette 4. Drawn by author

“A public view” - This vignette shows a view from the public bathhouse and outdoor pool. It depicts a scenario where development below the line happens at an uncontrolled rate with the newly established edge condition. Vancouver’s view corridors here are reversed to maintain public viewpoints back at the city.

(2) Productive edge (3) View corridor back at the city

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Figure 88

Vignette 1. Drawn by author

“The Akward Gondi-Ride” - This vignette shows a social mix of people that now have access to the City on the Edge of Wilderness.

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Figure 90

Vignette 3. Drawn by author

“A chance encounter” - This vignette shows how recreation in the forest continues to happen along side potential encounters of the machine at use or funiculars passing by.

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(2) View across burrard inlet of a landscape in a constant state of change

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