MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
Jessica Gu— RAIC Honour Roll
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Jessica Gu— RAIC Honour Roll
About the Award
RAIC Honour Roll:
For those students who have achieved high academic standing in the top 10% of their graduating class.
Land of Living Skies : A Saskatchewan Prairie Architecture
What was once a grasslands landscape was converted into an agricultural one during the settlement of Canada in the early 1900s. By making the land productive, it brought in a new population of European homesteaders, and industrialized the land as if it were a factory. Now, as farms amalgamate and people move out of the rural areas, the Saskatchewan Prairie landscape is being abandoned by people and is giving way to another new population: automated farm equipment.
In a landscape bleeding out of people to make way for industry, architecture has the opportunity to retain some space for people. The project follows the tradition of converting unused industrial sites for culture – like how an abandoned factory can be converted into a museum. This thesis converts the industrial site of the agricultural landscape into a cultural initiative called The Land of Living Skies Road Trip.
The road trip connects a series of interventions throughout the province, each one investigating a common characteristic of the Prairie landscape. As a collection, the fragments of investigation come together as a whole to refresh our current perspectives of the Saskatchewan Prairie.
RAIC Honour Roll:
For those students who have achieved high academic standing in the top 10% of their graduating class.
Land of Living Skies : A Saskatchewan Prairie Architecture
What was once a grasslands landscape was converted into an agricultural one during the settlement of Canada in the early 1900s. By making the land productive, it brought in a new population of European homesteaders, and industrialized the land as if it were a factory. Now, as farms amalgamate and people move out of the rural areas, the Saskatchewan Prairie landscape is being abandoned by people and is giving way to another new population: automated farm equipment.
In a landscape bleeding out of people to make way for industry, architecture has the opportunity to retain some space for people. The project follows the tradition of converting unused industrial sites for culture – like how an abandoned factory can be converted into a museum. This thesis converts the industrial site of the agricultural landscape into a cultural initiative called The Land of Living Skies Road Trip.
The road trip connects a series of interventions throughout the province, each one investigating a common characteristic of the Prairie landscape. As a collection, the fragments of investigation come together as a whole to refresh our current perspectives of the Saskatchewan Prairie.
