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frontierspace exhibition
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This design for a temporary structure in the historical ‘Gastown’ district of Vancouver was entirely limited to alleys averaging about 5m in width. The design is a generative space resulting from of an analysis of the inherent spatial conditions the existing buildings create in the alleyways. The height, alley width, occupancy type and facade treatments were all variables toward scripting an algorithm to create a massing scheme for the temporary structure. As the sculpted space moves through the alleyways, it carries the intelligence of a 'pre-design' to know when to be more regular, more porous, more explosive, when to bifurcate and when to terminate.
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