Storytelling [in] Architecture: Approaching Relational Architecture By Lucas Tonellato A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Architecture Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario © 2019 Lucas Tonellato
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By
Lucas Tonellato
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master in
What is the importance of and meaning of storytelling in
architecture? Can an architecture tell its own story? Can the role
of narrator be fulfilled by an architecture? Oral histories are passed
down, generation by generation, and the words spoken take on
new meaning with each retelling. Extrapolating from this idea of
original meaning and subsequent change, is it possible to research
how architecture narrates a story about growth and change and how
reinterpretations occur? Is it possible to accumulate understanding of
an architecture in the diverse ways that meaning is achieved through
storytelling? By reading, experiencing, and reinterpreting the space
and built form? This thesis explores these processes and suggest
how architecture naturally privileges the ‘reader’ as participant by
‘hiding’ and embedding its experiential, sensorial, and phenomenal
qualities within. The chosen site for this exploration is Building 22;
the school of architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Abstract
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Acknowledgments
This work grew out of my passion for telling stories, as well as my deep-
seated curiosity of architecture and its potential. In full seriousness, I would like to
thank some of you before you stop reading.
My parents and siblings, for their unwavering love and support. Your devotion has
carried me through.
My advisors Roger Connah and Yvan Cazabon, for their diligent commitment to
my research, their uncompromising expectations, and their idealistic vision of what
my thesis could be.
Carleton University, the Azrieli School of Architecture, and so many past
professors, too numerous to list by name.
My friends, without whose not-so-gentle encouragement I would not be here.
I am indebted to you all.
And I would like to thank Zabdi.
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Index
List of Figures
All figures by author unless otherwise noted. Figure 0.0 Thesis deck ‘title card’.
Figure 0.1 A warning.
Figure 0.3 Citations card.
Figure 0.4 Remembering Snippets. Watercolour on collage. 18 x 18 in.
Figure 0.5 Stream of consciousness drawings. Ink on 20lb stock. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 0.6 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. 15 x 60 in.
Figure 0.7 Squids and Sunsets. Digital collage. 20 x 20 in.
Figure 0.8 Colloquium 2 Mind Map. Digital mapping and collage. 32 x 24 in.
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Figure 0.9 Colloquium 2 Mind Map Pamphlet. Print reading tool. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 0.10 2.5[D]econstruction Section. Collage and mapping. 22.5 x 30 in.
Figure 0.11 The Inquisitive Observer. Ink on 50lb stock. 12 x 12 in.
Figure 0.12 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Development sketch and details.
Figure 0.13 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Development sketch and details.
Figure 0.14 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Development sketch and details.
Figure 1.0 Oral storytelling around a fire.
Figure 1.1 M.C. Escher’s Relativity, 1953.
Figure 2.0 Building 22. North corner.
Figure 2.1 The theatre of Building 22 unfolding.
Figure 2.2 The Architecture Building. Building 22. Northwest face.
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Figure 2.4 The faculty of Architecture.
Figure 3.0 Remembering Snippets. Watercolour on collage. 18 x 18 in.
Figure 3.1 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. First press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.2 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Second press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.3 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Third press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.4 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Fourth press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.5 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Fifth press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.6 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Sixth press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.7 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Seventh press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.8 Squids and Sunsets. Digital collage. 20 x 20 in.
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Figure 3.9 Colloquium 2 Mind Map. Digital mapping and collage. 32 x 24 in.
Figure 3.10 Colloquium 2 Mind Map Pamphlet. Print reading tool. Front. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 3.11 Colloquium 2 Mind Map Pamphlet. Print reading tool. Back. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 3.12 2.5[D]econstruction Section. Collage and mapping. 22.5 x 30 in.
Figure 3.13 The Inquisitive Observer. Ink on 50lb stock. 12 x 12 in.
Figure 4.0 Photograph of location 01.
Figure 4.1 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.2 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.3 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Photograph.
Figure 4.4 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Photograph.
Figure 4.5 Photograph of location 02.
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Figure 4.6 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.7 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.8 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Photograph.
Figure 4.9 Photograph of location 03.
Figure 4.10 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.11 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.12 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Photograph.
Figure 5.0 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 01.
Figure 5.1 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 02.
Figure 5.2 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 03.
Figure 5.3 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 04.
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Foreword
I would like to thank you, the participant. Without you, these words would simply
be pigmented petroleum distillate on plastic coated cotton-blend. These words
would have no meaning and impact no one. However, having come this far, you
bring life to the ideas written herein. It is thus within your power to agree with or
dispute these postulations; to reread these cards, to distribute them on their merit
or to put them aside and let the ideas fade once more. Through your investigation
of this deck, you bring meaning to the work that constitutes the completion of
this thesis. It is my greatest pleasure to present this opportunity to you, and my
greatest hope that the significance of your participation is understood by the end.
Figure 0.0 Thesis deck ‘title card’.
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This document is an adaptation of the original thesis deck.
As a series of cards, upon shuffling of the deck readers were
presented with the opportunity to read the thesis out of sequence.
Thus allowing for thoughtful consideration on the part of the reader
as they drew connections between ideas and sequenced the cards as
they saw fit.
Readers are offered to select a randomized sequence of page
numbers from the list on the following page and read the document
accordingly in order to emulate the experience of reading the thesis
deck.
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Stories have been told since time immemorial, before the first
humans gathered around the fire. Stories are lessons, learned by one
and passed to another in hopes of educating and protecting. Stories
are history, preserving and recounting heritage, conveying wisdom to
young minds. Verbal, oral histories are prevalent to this day. Stories
are colloquial accounts of complicated issues. Stories are lies,
stories are truths. Each story is subject to time; through re-telling,
re-remembering, re-visiting, and re-starting, the story changes in
composition as well as meaning. Stories by virtue are also subject
to interpretation; audience, tone, medium, place, urgency, narrator,
engagement and memory all play into the accurate and inaccurate
Figure 0.1 A warning.
are inseparable.
It is the postulation of this thesis that each and every
architecture, grand and benign alike, has its own story to tell. Much
like humanity, not all architecture is created equally. Sometimes due
to incompetence, underqualification, inconsideration, selfishness or
another unfairness architecture suffers, and theirs is a tale to lament
over. Regrettably, more often than not, the story of an architecture
goes untold. Can we assert for each story that goes untold there
is an architecture whose story is told incorrectly? Whether
through misrepresentation, misconstrued narrative, or…
Lucas Tonellato
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Master in
What is the importance of and meaning of storytelling in
architecture? Can an architecture tell its own story? Can the role
of narrator be fulfilled by an architecture? Oral histories are passed
down, generation by generation, and the words spoken take on
new meaning with each retelling. Extrapolating from this idea of
original meaning and subsequent change, is it possible to research
how architecture narrates a story about growth and change and how
reinterpretations occur? Is it possible to accumulate understanding of
an architecture in the diverse ways that meaning is achieved through
storytelling? By reading, experiencing, and reinterpreting the space
and built form? This thesis explores these processes and suggest
how architecture naturally privileges the ‘reader’ as participant by
‘hiding’ and embedding its experiential, sensorial, and phenomenal
qualities within. The chosen site for this exploration is Building 22;
the school of architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Abstract
iii
Acknowledgments
This work grew out of my passion for telling stories, as well as my deep-
seated curiosity of architecture and its potential. In full seriousness, I would like to
thank some of you before you stop reading.
My parents and siblings, for their unwavering love and support. Your devotion has
carried me through.
My advisors Roger Connah and Yvan Cazabon, for their diligent commitment to
my research, their uncompromising expectations, and their idealistic vision of what
my thesis could be.
Carleton University, the Azrieli School of Architecture, and so many past
professors, too numerous to list by name.
My friends, without whose not-so-gentle encouragement I would not be here.
I am indebted to you all.
And I would like to thank Zabdi.
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Index
List of Figures
All figures by author unless otherwise noted. Figure 0.0 Thesis deck ‘title card’.
Figure 0.1 A warning.
Figure 0.3 Citations card.
Figure 0.4 Remembering Snippets. Watercolour on collage. 18 x 18 in.
Figure 0.5 Stream of consciousness drawings. Ink on 20lb stock. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 0.6 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. 15 x 60 in.
Figure 0.7 Squids and Sunsets. Digital collage. 20 x 20 in.
Figure 0.8 Colloquium 2 Mind Map. Digital mapping and collage. 32 x 24 in.
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Figure 0.9 Colloquium 2 Mind Map Pamphlet. Print reading tool. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 0.10 2.5[D]econstruction Section. Collage and mapping. 22.5 x 30 in.
Figure 0.11 The Inquisitive Observer. Ink on 50lb stock. 12 x 12 in.
Figure 0.12 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Development sketch and details.
Figure 0.13 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Development sketch and details.
Figure 0.14 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Development sketch and details.
Figure 1.0 Oral storytelling around a fire.
Figure 1.1 M.C. Escher’s Relativity, 1953.
Figure 2.0 Building 22. North corner.
Figure 2.1 The theatre of Building 22 unfolding.
Figure 2.2 The Architecture Building. Building 22. Northwest face.
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Figure 2.4 The faculty of Architecture.
Figure 3.0 Remembering Snippets. Watercolour on collage. 18 x 18 in.
Figure 3.1 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. First press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.2 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Second press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.3 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Third press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.4 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Fourth press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.5 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Fifth press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.6 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Sixth press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.7 Linograph: Ink on 50lb stock. Seventh press. 5.5 x 4 in.
Figure 3.8 Squids and Sunsets. Digital collage. 20 x 20 in.
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Figure 3.9 Colloquium 2 Mind Map. Digital mapping and collage. 32 x 24 in.
Figure 3.10 Colloquium 2 Mind Map Pamphlet. Print reading tool. Front. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 3.11 Colloquium 2 Mind Map Pamphlet. Print reading tool. Back. 8.5 x 11 in.
Figure 3.12 2.5[D]econstruction Section. Collage and mapping. 22.5 x 30 in.
Figure 3.13 The Inquisitive Observer. Ink on 50lb stock. 12 x 12 in.
Figure 4.0 Photograph of location 01.
Figure 4.1 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.2 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.3 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Photograph.
Figure 4.4 Machine of Architectural Reading 01. Photograph.
Figure 4.5 Photograph of location 02.
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Figure 4.6 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.7 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.8 Machine of Architectural Reading 02. Photograph.
Figure 4.9 Photograph of location 03.
Figure 4.10 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.11 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Ink on 20lb stock. 24 x 18 in.
Figure 4.12 Machine of Architectural Reading 03. Photograph.
Figure 5.0 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 01.
Figure 5.1 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 02.
Figure 5.2 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 03.
Figure 5.3 Hidden Inquisitive Observer figure 04.
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Foreword
I would like to thank you, the participant. Without you, these words would simply
be pigmented petroleum distillate on plastic coated cotton-blend. These words
would have no meaning and impact no one. However, having come this far, you
bring life to the ideas written herein. It is thus within your power to agree with or
dispute these postulations; to reread these cards, to distribute them on their merit
or to put them aside and let the ideas fade once more. Through your investigation
of this deck, you bring meaning to the work that constitutes the completion of
this thesis. It is my greatest pleasure to present this opportunity to you, and my
greatest hope that the significance of your participation is understood by the end.
Figure 0.0 Thesis deck ‘title card’.
2
This document is an adaptation of the original thesis deck.
As a series of cards, upon shuffling of the deck readers were
presented with the opportunity to read the thesis out of sequence.
Thus allowing for thoughtful consideration on the part of the reader
as they drew connections between ideas and sequenced the cards as
they saw fit.
Readers are offered to select a randomized sequence of page
numbers from the list on the following page and read the document
accordingly in order to emulate the experience of reading the thesis
deck.
3 31 6 57 12 8 18 56 72 30 44 76 20 52 79 87 49 51 84 34 68 27 32 26 54 39 4 25 62 1 64 15 14 85 94 71 43 7 23 3 86 83 5 33 77 13 16 37 92 88 41 28 17 2 42 9 35 21 24 48 40 38 22 45 74 58 63 50 90 53 82 75 66 29 70 73 89 47 80 19 11 59 61 36 46 67 81 10 91 65 69 60 55 78 93
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Stories have been told since time immemorial, before the first
humans gathered around the fire. Stories are lessons, learned by one
and passed to another in hopes of educating and protecting. Stories
are history, preserving and recounting heritage, conveying wisdom to
young minds. Verbal, oral histories are prevalent to this day. Stories
are colloquial accounts of complicated issues. Stories are lies,
stories are truths. Each story is subject to time; through re-telling,
re-remembering, re-visiting, and re-starting, the story changes in
composition as well as meaning. Stories by virtue are also subject
to interpretation; audience, tone, medium, place, urgency, narrator,
engagement and memory all play into the accurate and inaccurate
Figure 0.1 A warning.
are inseparable.
It is the postulation of this thesis that each and every
architecture, grand and benign alike, has its own story to tell. Much
like humanity, not all architecture is created equally. Sometimes due
to incompetence, underqualification, inconsideration, selfishness or
another unfairness architecture suffers, and theirs is a tale to lament
over. Regrettably, more often than not, the story of an architecture
goes untold. Can we assert for each story that goes untold there
is an architecture whose story is told incorrectly? Whether
through misrepresentation, misconstrued narrative, or…
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