Of
the
thesis
entitled: THE OTHER
PLACE
| Building
a
Retreat
of
One’s
Own
Abstract:
How
is
one
to
ground
themselves
in
an
increasingly
virtual
and abstract
world? The
Other
Place
offers
a complimentary
environment
to
daily
life.
Here
one
can
establish
the
necessary critical
distance
from
the
conditions which
define
day
to
day
life,
and
gain the
perspective
required
to
position
ones
self
within,
or
against,
these conditions. Interpretations
of
The
Other Place,
beginning
with
the
ideology
of
Otium
as
expressed
through
the roman villa,
continue
today,
varying
widely
across
cultures,
regions
and individuals. The
Other
Place,
then,
can be
understood
as
representative
of
characteristics
that
are
at
once
general, and
quite
specific,
reflective
of broad
contextual
considerations,
and
the particularities
of
its
occupant.
The rich
and
complex
process
of
designing
and
building
a
retreat
of
one’s
own,
in the
tradition
of
the
Ontario
Cottage,
on
an
island
property
3
hours
northeast of
Toronto
is
used
to
engage
with,
in
a
rich
and
tangible
way, the architecture,
and
understanding
of
the
retreat
as
a complimentary environment
necessary
in
contemporary
life. The
act
of
building
leads
to
an
examination
of
how
building
and
self
are inseparable. Building,
then, becomes
a
means of
architectural
and
self-understanding. As
The
Other
Place
facilitates
a
wholeness
in
contemporary
existence found
through
its
experience,
so
too
is
a
wholeness
in
architectural
education gained
in
the pragmatic
relationship
between
theory
and
practice
found
in moving
from
the
studio
to
building
site
and
applying
knowledge
gained
from
one to
the
other.
The examining committee is as follows:
Supervisor:
Rick Andrighetti, University of Waterloo
Committee Members:
Rick Haldenby, University of Waterloo
John McMinn, University of Waterloo
External Reader:
Paul Dowling
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Friday
March
24,
2017
1:30
PM
ARC
2026
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.