Urban Suburbanism
Competition Entry, 2006
This is a project completed as part of the Masters Thesis curriculum at Carleton University's Azreili School of Architecture and Urbanism. In short, it's an attempt to bring certain aspect of suburban life into the urban realm, through architecture. From the finished document's abstract:
This project seeks an architectural prototype that is a hybrid of urban and suburban domestic values. It is predicated upon the present-day merging of the traditional notions of city and suburb, and it rejects the type of built fabric that typically results from this convergence. Instead, it proposes an urban infill development designed to address certain suburban notions as well. The particular aspects of suburbia this project focuses on are still elusive in the city, and they are: the expectation of affordability, the desire for contact with open green space, and the desire for a detached, private home. As such, this is an urban design project examining the nature of suburbia, its history, its current state, and how it fits into the changing condition of today’s urban realm.
