Blueprint for a hack : leveraging informal building practices / Vikram Bhatt, David Harlander, Susane Havelka.

Main entry:

Bhatt, Vikram, author.

Title & Author:

Blueprint for a hack : leveraging informal building practices / Vikram Bhatt, David Harlander, Susane Havelka.

Publication:

New York, NY : Actar Publishers, 2020.

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
CCA mentioned in acknowledgements.

Summary:

Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area.'Blueprint for a Hack' aims to reimagine community spaces. Faced with extreme housing shortages, physical isolation, and a challenging climate, outdoor public spaces in northern communities remain largely undesigned and underused. These "in-between" spaces are strewn with stuff. Most housing and civic buildings in the communities emerge from and stand like physical markers of Euro-Canadian values. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada has begun a discourse on design in northern Canadian communities, but discussions continue to dwell on housing and civic buildings. A strong need exists to open conversations about design and the public realm in northern villages, which this project tries to address, creating a unique experience in which northern and southern groups could apply a "hacking mindset" to reimagine community spaces

ISBN:

1948765411 (paperback)
9781948765411 (paperback)

Subject:

Public architecture Québec (Province) Nunavik.
Architects and community Québec (Province) Nunavik.
Vernacular architecture Québec (Province) Nunavik.
Architecture publique Québec (Province) Nunavik.
Relations architectes-collectivité Québec (Province) Nunavik.
Architecture vernaculaire Québec (Province) Nunavik.
Architects and community.
Public architecture.
Vernacular architecture.
Public architecture Québec (Province) Kuujjuaq
Architects and community Québec (Province) Kuujjuaq
Vernacular architecture Québec (Province) Kuujjuaq
Québec Nunavik.
Centre canadien d'architecture Mentions, acknowledgments, etc.

Added entries:

Harlander, David, author.
Havelka, Susane, author.
Havelka, Susane author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308816
Call No.: BIB 254148
Status: Available

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