North Port

North Port is a projective port city on the Northern Canadian Coast reacting to the circumstances of climate change and resultant landscape instability. Continuing languages established by historical precedents for new-ground urban environments, it posits a negative utopia in a unique northern conte...

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Main Author: Kiefer, Ryan
Other Authors: Hight, Christopher, Colman, Scott, Finley, Dawn, Wittenberg, Gordon
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Urban Study
Arctic Development
Megastructure
Utopia
Negative Utopia
Architecture
Infrastructure
Arctic
New Ground
Climate change
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107979
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spelling ftriceuniv:oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/107979 2023-05-15T14:58:53+02:00 North Port Kiefer, Ryan Hight, Christopher Colman, Scott Finley, Dawn Wittenberg, Gordon 2019-05 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107979 eng eng Kiefer, Ryan. "North Port." (2019) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107979 . https://hdl.handle.net/1911/107979 Urban Study Arctic Development Megastructure Utopia Negative Utopia Architecture Infrastructure Thesis Text 2019 ftriceuniv 2022-08-09T20:29:33Z North Port is a projective port city on the Northern Canadian Coast reacting to the circumstances of climate change and resultant landscape instability. Continuing languages established by historical precedents for new-ground urban environments, it posits a negative utopia in a unique northern context; a way-station at the furthest extant of habitation where architecture works as a mediator and sanctuary in a changing terrain. It is a product of an unbalanced economy and reflects the infiltration of mining development pursuance in the north, an increasing pressure contrary to existing modes of habitation. Thesis Arctic Climate change Rice University: Digital Scholarship Archive Arctic New Ground ENVELOPE(-55.215,-55.215,49.567,49.567)
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Arctic Development
Megastructure
Utopia
Negative Utopia
Architecture
Infrastructure
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Arctic Development
Megastructure
Utopia
Negative Utopia
Architecture
Infrastructure
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Arctic Development
Megastructure
Utopia
Negative Utopia
Architecture
Infrastructure
description North Port is a projective port city on the Northern Canadian Coast reacting to the circumstances of climate change and resultant landscape instability. Continuing languages established by historical precedents for new-ground urban environments, it posits a negative utopia in a unique northern context; a way-station at the furthest extant of habitation where architecture works as a mediator and sanctuary in a changing terrain. It is a product of an unbalanced economy and reflects the infiltration of mining development pursuance in the north, an increasing pressure contrary to existing modes of habitation.
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New Ground
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New Ground
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Climate change
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