| Title | Integrating Architecture and Landscape Architecture with Community Forest Management |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Applied Science |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2022 |
| Completion | 03/31/2024 |
| Project Summary | In this innovative interdisciplinary project, students from UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will collaborate with UBC Forestry to design and develop public infrastructure for a remote coastal community in British Columbia using timber harvested from a local community forest. Sustainably harvested timber construction materials offer significant environmental benefits in the form of carbon sequestration. However, these benefits require that design methods are integrated with sustainable forest management. The innovative hands-on pedagogical approach proposed will create reciprocal relationships between forestry practices and design of architecture and landscapes. The proposed project articulates the relationship of architectural materials to the forest ecologies from they are harvested, while training architecture and forestry students in regenerative approaches that use resources to build social and environmental equity. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2022/2023 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Joseph Dahmen |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 22,308 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Joseph Dahmen, Associate Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2023/2024 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Joseph Dahmen |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 22,592 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Joseph Dahmen, Associate Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science |
| Year 2: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Project Report | 2023-TLEF-Final-Report-Dahmen-WEB.pdf |