UKRAINIAN CANADIAN ARCHIVES & MUSEUM OF ALBERTA

摘要

This project tackles the integration of the contemporary Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of Alberta (UCAMA) within the context of an existing residential structure, the early 20th-century Lodge Hotel, and strives to explore and capture the embodied memory of the site's history within its design. UCAMA is located in Edmonton's original city centre. Although it is not known what was on the site initially, the earliest extant structure is found within the configurations that wrap around it today. These configurations or "added" pieces have evolved to create a distinctive pattern, and it is from this chrono- morphology that the parti for UCAMA is developed: the gallery box surrounded by canyons, embraced by existing walls, sheared by floors.