Integrating Architecture and Landscape Architecture with Community Forest Management

TitleIntegrating Architecture and Landscape Architecture with Community Forest Management
Faculty/College/UnitApplied Science
StatusCompleted
Duration2 Year
Initiation04/01/2022
Completion03/31/2024
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 YearYear 1
Year 1: Funding Year2022/2023
Year 1: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 1: Principal InvestigatorJoseph Dahmen
Year 1: Funded Amount22,308
Year 1: Team Members

Joseph Dahmen, Associate Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science
Suzanne Simard, Professor, Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Year 2: Project YearYear 2
Year 2: Funding Year2023/2024
Year 2: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 2: Principal InvestigatorJoseph Dahmen
Year 2: Funded Amount22,592
Year 2: Team Members

Joseph Dahmen, Associate Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science
Suzanne Simard, Professor, Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry
Kenneth Byrne, Lecturer / Program Coordinator, Master of Sustainable Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry

Year 2: TLEF ShowcaseYear 2: TLEF Showcase
Project Report2023-TLEF-Final-Report-Dahmen-WEB.pdf