Yannik Sigouin
TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN ORIENTATION & ONTOLOGY
Yannik Sigouin
TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN ORIENTATION & ONTOLOGY
TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN ORIENTATION & ONTOLOGY
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This early thesis work investigates the intermediate zones between enclosure and landscape of North House to analyze the internal friction between a responsive living-lab and the context of which it has found its permanent home. This research topic asks how the application of a modern responsive material system of locally sourced clay and timber offers a change of disposition that acts on rebalancing transcendental-polarized boundaries. This act of rebalancing empowers interdisciplinary models of organicism that allows for multiple polarities, rather than dictating what is ‘good’. The model of organicism facilitates symbiotic relationships and calls on embracing friction of incompatibility between solar design orientation and the ontology of human and nonhuman behaviours by fabricating a dynamic structure that is fluid in spatial refuge. The tectonics of the proposing responsive material system structure looks to further contribute meaning to its place by integrating analogies to the Grand River watershed basin, and the history of Cambridge and the Six Nations. This contemplates detailing and construction techniques of clay and timber systems that holistically consider place, topography, climate and culture and questions how this contemplation may contribute to living architecture that is more persistent and adaptive over time.
About
This early thesis work investigates the intermediate zones between enclosure and landscape of North House to analyze the internal friction between a responsive living-lab and the context of which it has found its permanent home. This research topic asks how the application of a modern responsive material system of locally sourced clay and timber offers a change of disposition that acts on rebalancing transcendental-polarized boundaries. This act of rebalancing empowers interdisciplinary models of organicism that allows for multiple polarities, rather than dictating what is ‘good’. The model of organicism facilitates symbiotic relationships and calls on embracing friction of incompatibility between solar design orientation and the ontology of human and nonhuman behaviours by fabricating a dynamic structure that is fluid in spatial refuge. The tectonics of the proposing responsive material system structure looks to further contribute meaning to its place by integrating analogies to the Grand River watershed basin, and the history of Cambridge and the Six Nations. This contemplates detailing and construction techniques of clay and timber systems that holistically consider place, topography, climate and culture and questions how this contemplation may contribute to living architecture that is more persistent and adaptive over time.
