Nomad in the City: Composing an Architectural Dissonance

spatial production, social environments, music

– hand drawing, card/paper modelling, photographic chemigrams, Illustrator –

M.Arch thesis (2010)

What are the pre-existing spatial myths that inform architectural practices today? Nomad in the City dissects current spatial conventions through the idea of the ‘Nomad’, a paradoxical being whose social and geographic identity contrasts cultural norms inherited from colonialism. Drawing parallels from musical production, specifically of free jazz, the thesis explores ‘Nomad’-ic, or contingent, spaces that respond to alternative ways of inhabiting the urban landscape. The final scheme consists of two extensions to Carleton University’s community-based radio station, designed through the layering of photography, drawing, modelling and film, in order to examine the complex narrative inherent to the production of space.