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A University of Guelph Rural Planning and Development Rural Design and Economic Development Report created in tandem with the Municipality of Huron East to explore revitalization options for the Town of Seaforth, Ontario's Main Street... more

A University of Guelph Rural Planning and Development Rural Design and Economic Development Report created in tandem with the Municipality of Huron East to explore revitalization options for the Town of Seaforth, Ontario's Main Street Corridor. Presented to the Municipality of Huron East Council: April 04, 2017.

The rural world is characterized by extreme disparities, oscillating between tradition and underdevelopment, between valuable places/landscapes and extreme poverty, between urbanization and de-urbanization, between the small, human scale... more

The rural world is characterized by extreme disparities, oscillating between tradition and underdevelopment, between valuable places/landscapes and extreme poverty, between urbanization and de-urbanization, between the small, human scale of traditional settlements and a change of scale and landscape brought on by the infiltration of urban habits. This paper examines the first project in the second year of study at the Faculty of Architecture from UAUIM. The general theme-"A house on the countryside"puts forward the study of a rural community and requires an adequate architectural response to the housing needs of a family, based on interpreting the local cultural identity and understanding the materiality and the relations between the architectural and material space. The students were free to choose between two options. The first was Rădești-an isolated village that still keeps many traditional values, including all rural housing typologies, and has houses going back to the end of the 19th century. The second option was Comana, a village whose valuable natural landscape and proximity to Bucharest involves a specific set of intervention strategies in order to obtain a high degree of architectural permeability. The paper also exemplifies a teaching process based on a structured methodology, based on questions meant to point out categories of issues and whose answers would result in types of intervention and particular solutions.