Revealing an ocean edge

Revealing an ocean edge

A design is developed for a community park on the ocean edge of West Vancouver, British Columbia. The guiding design goal is to achieve a sensitive response to the essence of this edge. The experience of this ocean, land and sky interface is explored as are its conditions of context and memory. O...

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Main Author: Dick, Beryl Allen
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16404
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spelling ndltd-UBC-oai-circle.library.ubc.ca-2429-164042018-01-05T17:38:22Z Revealing an ocean edge Dick, Beryl Allen A design is developed for a community park on the ocean edge of West Vancouver, British Columbia. The guiding design goal is to achieve a sensitive response to the essence of this edge. The experience of this ocean, land and sky interface is explored as are its conditions of context and memory. Overarching design responses are presented and a conceptual design is articulated. The design of the park attempts to reveal the tactile nature of this ocean edge. The design is authentic to today yet the hope is that it will inspire experimentation and change with time. The park will have a quality of stable impermanence, like the edge where it is found. Applied Science, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of Graduate 2009-12-11T00:55:53Z 2009-12-11T00:55:53Z 2005 2005-05 Text Thesis/Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16404 eng For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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description A design is developed for a community park on the ocean edge of West Vancouver, British Columbia. The guiding design goal is to achieve a sensitive response to the essence of this edge. The experience of this ocean, land and sky interface is explored as are its conditions of context and memory. Overarching design responses are presented and a conceptual design is articulated. The design of the park attempts to reveal the tactile nature of this ocean edge. The design is authentic to today yet the hope is that it will inspire experimentation and change with time. The park will have a quality of stable impermanence, like the edge where it is found. === Applied Science, Faculty of === Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of === Graduate
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