Digital Regionalism: Identity, Place and the Ottawa Train Station

The Critical Regionalist ethos was born of a staunch distrust to the utopian visions of Internationalism, succeeding in a retreat back to an architecture of local identity. With the onset of the globalized 21st-century architecture practice, digital design tools have subsequently come to homogenize a transnational working methodology where the importance of regional peripheries is receding over time. This thesis questions the role of digital design and regionalism in contemporary architecture. How can architecture reconcile regional identity drivers with the increasing use of digital design tools for complex projects? This thesis uses a digital tool set to interpret natural wood phenomena that constitutes a novel design system. It expands the analysis to interpolate multidirectional patterns that otherwise go unseen. In doing so it reinterprets the genius loci of place for a contemporary digital regionalism. This thesis proposes an amalgamated transit terminal at the Ottawa Train Station.

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

2015

Author dc:creator

• Connolly, Benjamin

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 2015 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used 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/2015-10812

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/42109