Autumn Riggan

Shorelines and Bathers

A shoreline is simultaneously a mediator between water and land and a threshold, providing change as continuity.

This thesis is located between underwater and out of water, between humans and other living organisms, between clean and grey water, between an infrastructural system and an immediate location, and between the useful present and an abandoned past. Imagining the ritual of bathing as suspended between a series of architectural spaces that collectively operate as a shoreline, the project is located along a portion of the Newmarket Canal, a derelict watercourse on the Holland River that intersects the Nokiidaa recreational trail.

Advisor: Laura Miller