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Ignition
Ignition is an event planned by the CANADIAN ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION. It is designed to represent the interests and goals inherent within the organization.
The project continues to contribute and promote the culture and craft of architecture within the context of the 10 Canadian Schools of Architecture. It brings geographically remote locations into intimate contact with each other, and fosters an interest and associative camaraderie amidst the participant schools and students. Participants design an artifact to be constructed at each of the ten schools, which is subsequently presented in an exhibition running parallel to the annual RAIC Festival of Architecture.
By providing an analogue to the practices of the architectural and associated professions, the project attempts to engage many levels of involvement- student, academic, professional, manufacturers, builders, etc. The resultant work will provide a forum, drawing attention to student activity, and providing a natural venue for mutual discussion.
Ignition -2007 Form_naturelle 
The practice of architecture requires an intimate understanding of both the built and natural worlds. Environmental forces, landscapes, and experiential phenomena all play roles in the manifestation of an architectural idea. As the poem explores the life cycle of a Canadian building boom and subsequent bust, the forces of the natural environment become inseparable in their effect from those of the built. This charette seeks to explore this idea further examining how such connections, between the built
and natural environment, can be made manifest through form. Using concrete formwork, an abstraction of the built environment will be prepared to be filled. This formwork will then be sent to another city. Here the formwork will be modified according to an intervention based upon the local natural environment. How do the wheat fields of the prairies relate to the bustle of Toronto’s Taxis? The staircases of Montreal to the light on the West Coast? Through the construction and subsequent modification of formwork these ideas will be explored. This is a collaborative project, fostering connections between schools who rarely get the chance to work together while exploring the connections and relationships that exist among Canada’s built and natural environments. The charette will culminate in an installation of the final concrete forms at the RAIC festival in Toronto.
Materials: Concrete (to be filled by Hanson Brick Ltd.) Plywood Optional (wood, metal, plexi, etc...)
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