| Title | Integrating Architecture and Landscape Architecture with Community Forest Management |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Applied Science |
| Status | Active |
| Duration | 3 Years |
| Initiation | 04/01/2022 |
| Project Summary | In this innovative interdisciplinary project, students from UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will collaborate with UBC Forestry students and a remote coastal community to design, develop and construct public infrastructure in British Columbia using timber harvested from a local community forest. Timber buildings offer significant potential environmental benefits in the form of carbon storage. However, taking advantage of these potential benefits will require collaborative design methods integrated with sustainable forest management. The innovative hands-on pedagogical approach proposed will create reciprocal relationships between forestry practices and design of local projects, reframing the relationship of architectural materials to the forest ecologies from they are harvested, while training architects and foresters to use sustainably harvested 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 |