Dynamic Vessels for Shifting Thresholds: Bodies and Water at the Edges of the Toronto Islands

At the interface between air and water, land and lake, lies a watery threshold ever-changing in form. As climate change and land loss reconfigure recreational shorelines, how might we reimagine human connections with dynamic watery experiences? On the shifting shores of Lake Ontario, can the beaches and lagoons of the Toronto Islands be occupied in new ways to rebalance human and non-human occupants’ divergent and conflicting needs? This thesis explores ways of notating and engaging with the shifting water’s edge that work with its dynamic and reciprocal motion. Balancing the buoyancy, stability, power and resistance of these active spaces, this project imagines installations and vessels that provide new water-based human experiences, while protecting and remediating non-human habitats. Using deployable, folded geometries that expand and contract to mediate tactile, shifting relationships between bodies and water, this thesis designs for an environment that evolves on its own terms.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Carleton University

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Chan, Annette Yin Man

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 2023 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, distribution to students, research and scholarship. Theses may only be shared by linking to the Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be copied without proper attribution to the author; no part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

10.22215/etd/2023-15632

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/40832