MANIFESTO DEFINED:
TO CONTEXTUALIZE THE ENCLOSURE
THROUGH AN AMPLIFIED +
RE-ENVISIONED REGIONAL EXPRESSION
The manifesto’s body of research is divided in to three sections, each that will play a critical role in the design methodology applied to the final project for Aliquot Timber.
The first is a brief history on the use of timber construction in the Vancouver region in order to demonstrate the foundation for a new structural language that will be expressed.
The second is a selection of precedents that illustrate buildings that are contextually grounded; these projects complement their site and do not simply imitate it.
The third reinforces the desire to resource locally, and provides some facts and figures to show how this is feasible and what species of wood may be used.
The goal is to propose a new regional style that is not prescribed by specific or limiting material connections or systems, but that embodies a language to propel this material use forward, and as a result, reintroduce the Vancouver region as a pioneer for timber construction. The ensuing proposal for a library in Surrey will be a first sampling of this methodology, and should speak louder than what may later transpire.