Machine Ecologies

Academic, Research, Cartographic Analysis
@ 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

This thesis explores the relationship between productive landscapes and the machines that shape them.

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

Blooming Fields, Bee’s View

Kite Drone’s View

Context

1956

2016

Collection Machine, Burrowing Owl’s View

British Columbia Projected Growing Degree Change, 2020 - 2050

Agriculture vs Population Ecumene

Reaping

Threshing

Winnowing

Reaping by Combine

Threshing by Combine

Winnowing by Combine

Swathed wheat, arranged to dry

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