Machine Ecologies
@ UBC, MArch Graduate Project
Winner, Vaughn Berg Memorial Prize
Winner, Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence
Featured, Canadian Architect
Featured, CASA.ACEA Showcase
9.19-01.20
Built to draw resources from gridded "peripheries", machines of industry have reshaped the rural north. In tailoring the landscape to the machine, these territories have come to be misunderstood as physically and temporally disjointed sites of extraction. In reality, these places are critical future thresholds for ecosystems in flux, now more than ever in need of succession and connectivity.
The project proposes an ecology of machines that celebrates complexity in the way we divide and cultivate agricultural landscapes in northern British Columbia.
Full project available at machineecologies.cargo.site