From the Vancouver Urbanarium Society and the Museum of Vancouver comes the immersive and timely new exhibition, Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver. 

As it explores the hottest topics in Vancouver today—housing affordability, urban density, mobility, and public space—Your Future Home invites people to discover surprising facts about the city and imagine what Vancouver might become. This major exhibition engages visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real estate advertising as it presents the visions of talented Vancouver designers about how we might design the cityscapes of the future. Throughout the run of the exhibition, visitors can deepen their experience through a series of programs, including workshops, happy hours, and debates among architectural, real estate and urban planning experts.

 VANCOUVER STORIES:

 1. SURREY CITY CENTRE

 2. FREEWAY

 3. ARBUTUS LANDS

 4. CENTRAL HEAT

 5. HASTINGS PARK

 6. GRANVILLE ISLAND

 7. WOODWARD’S REDEVELOPMENT

 8. MOLE HILL

FUTURE SCENARIOS:

A. NO MORE PRIVATE CARS?

Move Your City 

Perkins + Will

Miguel Castillo, Kari Dow, Dalton Ho, Aaron Knorr, Gavin Schaefer, Jag Singh, and Elsa Snyder

 

B. HOW MANY WAYS CAN WE ENVISION HOME IN VANCOUVER?

Your Future Home 1:1

Simcic + Uhrich Architects

Cameron Koroluk, Alicia Medina, Jay Robertson, Marko Simcic, Emily Sims, and Bill Uhrich

 

C. HOW WILL WE USE OUR INDUSTRIAL SPACE?

Harbingers + Joints

Measured Architecture

Clinton Cuddington, Joanne Smith, and Ryan Arceneaux

 

D. AFTER THE BIG ONE, HOW WILL WE GET AROUND?

Bikes & the Big One 

Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects

 

T. CAN WE THINK OUTSIDE THE GRID?

The GRID 

Erick Villagomez

 

U. CAN VANCOUVER’S HOUSING TYPES INSPIRE US TO DESIGN DENSER NEIGHBOURHOODS?

Future Densities

SHAPE

Dwayne Smith, Nick Sully, Nuala O’Donnell, and the team at SHAPE Architecture

 

V. HOW WILL WE TRAVEL INTO THE FUTURE?

MOVE

Kyle Ball, Justine Crawford, Dorcas Yeung

 

W. IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE, HOW WILL WE REMAKE VANCOUVER?

Climate Change Gauge

BTAworks

Eileen Keenan, John Readshaw, Michael Heeney, Marius Hexan, Philippe Saurel

 

P. WHERE IS THE PAST IN VANCOUVER’S FUTURE?

c̓əsnaʔəm_vancouver_triangle

LIMINAL

Martin Lewis

 

Q. IS IT A GAME?

A Smart City & the Tetris Effect 

Stantec Architecture (Team 2)

Noel Best, Darren Burns, Doug Hamming, May Khaikaew, Kim Glauber, Anca Rusu, and Aubrey Tucker

 

R. CAN YOU AFFORD TO BE HERE?

[untitled]

DIALOG

Evan Dysart, Tracy Liu, Pauline Thimm, Chani Joseph Ritchie, and Molly Steeves

 

S. WILL WE ENSURE ACCESSIBLE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL?

DOC 

Stephanie Robb Architect

 

E. ARE THERE ALTERNATIVES TO LOW-RISE SPRAWL AND HIGH-RISE LIVING?

Monad M812: An Adaptive Housing Platform for the Ecological Metropolis of the Future 

LWPAC

Oliver Lang, Cindy Wilson, Thomas Bocahut, Martina Caniglia, and Mingyue Zhang

 

F. CAN VANCOUVER BUILD A DENSER CITY THAT ENHANCES ITS IDENTITY? 

Onfill Density 

Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects

 

G. HOW VARIED DO WE WANT VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOODS TO BE?

Density in Section 

Campos Studio

Javier Campos, Sarah Cree, and Czarina Ray

 

H. HIGH-RISE PUBLIC SPACE?

Public Amenity No. 1

Clayton Blackman, Colin Harper, Shane Oleksiuk

 

I. CAN WE STRENGTHEN CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACE?

Density of Public Realm 

Stantec Architecture (Team 1)

Goar Bermudez, Darren Burns, Sara Kasaei, and Ivan Velikov

 

J. HOW HIGH DO WE GO?

Vertical City

Henriquez Partners Architects

Richard G. Henriquez, with Luke Cho and Nazlee MoayedModel: B + B Scale Models; Roger Li, Henry Zhang, Bernd Zwick, Terry Henderson, Michelle Lucca, Augustine Chen, Jenny Fan, Ryan Zwick, Simon Kim

 

K. PARKS OR PARKING LOTS?

Block Party (Vancouver’s Smallest Public Park)

Hapa Collaborative

 

L. WHAT KIND OF PUBLIC SPACE DO YOU WANT?

Some Questions on Public Space 

Broken City Lab / Contemporary Art Gallery

Hiba Abdallah and Justin Langlois

 

M. WILL WE MOVE PARKS AROUND THE CITY?

BargePark|ParkBarge 

PFS Studio

Marta Farevaag, Maureen Hetzler, Simone Levy, Bo Lu, Sophie MacNeill, Laura MacDonald, Kelty McKinnon, Chris Mramor, Marta Pietrak, Ariel Vernon, and Stephen Wilkinson

 

N. CAN WE GET CLOSER TO THE WATER?

Harbour Deck 

HCMA Architecture + Design

Darryl Condon, Melissa Higgs, Paul Fast, Vanessa Konn, Bonnie Retief, Mark Busse, and Saleem Khattak

 

O. MORE SPACE FOR LEISURE TIME?

The Rate of Uselessness / Bubble City 

FubaLobo Design

Mari Fujita and Michael Barton

Media:

"Change is essential to Vancouver’s transformative story" - Globe and Mail

Gregory Dreicer and Richard Henriquez discuss Your Future Home - Global News

"Museum of Vancouver explores city's future" - CBC

"Imagining Vancouver’s future" - Westender

Credits:

Museum of Vancouver

Lead Curator: Gregory Dreicer

Curatorial Associate: Jillian Povarchook

Curatorial team: Viviane Gosselin, Jane Lougheed, Wendy Nichols, Alan Kollins

Marketing: Myles Constable

Fabrication and installation: Klaus Koa and Heather Turnbull with Justine Rego, Evan Follweiter, and Nicholas Farrell

Program development: Mitra Mansour

 

Data Curator: Andy Yan/Bing Thom Architects and Simon Fraser University City Program

 

Graphic design: Cathryn Bingham, AldrichPears

Exhibition design: Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers

Design of family guide and related graphics: Mia Hansen

 

Chinese media representative: Joyce Yang

Media sponsors: CBC Vancouver and Vancouver is Awesome

 

Urbanarium Curatorial Team

Overall coordination: Scot Hein

Case Studies: Marta Farevaag

Future Scenarios: Bruce Haden

Vancouver animation coordination: Bo Helliwell

Communications: Ian Grais/Rethink

Panorama and animation content: Sam M. Khany

Project management and video editing: Elena Chernyshov

Mandarin translation: Minnie Chan

App development: Babak Manavi and Minnie Chan

 

The Urbanarium and Museum of Vancouver would like to thank the contributors of the future scenarios.

 

Broken City Lab / Contemporary Art Gallery

BTAworks

Campos Studio

Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects

Clayton Blackman, Colin Harper, Shane Oleksiuk

DIALOG

Erick Villagomez

FubaLabo Design

Hapa Collaborative

HCMA Architecture + Design

Henriquez Partners Architects

Kyle Ball, Justine Crawford, Dorcas Yeung

LIMINAL

LWPAC

Measured Architecture

Perkins + Will

PFS Studio

SHAPE

Simcic + Uhrich Architects

Stantec Architecture

Stephanie Robb Architect

 

 

The Urbanarium and Museum of Vancouver would like to thank the individuals for their participation in the development of Your Future Home.

Justin Barski, Jane Bateman, David Beers, Mahbod Biazi, Craig Birston, Chanel Blouin, Gillian Brennan, Mark Busse, Karen Campbell, Patrick Y. Foong Chang, Thomas Daley, Frank Ducote, Carlos Fang, Megan Faulkner, Michael Flanigan, Steph Hurl, Neal LaMontagne, Derek Lee, Babak Manavi, Matthew McCauley, R.J. McCulloch, Jessika MacDonald, Sean McEwen, Darlene Marzari, Sarah Oxland, Doug Patterson, Blair Petrie, Chris Phillips, Nic Paolella, Omer Rashman, Mitchell Reardon, Andrea Smith, Erick Villagomez, Tate White, and Matthew Woodruff.

 

Your Future Home was made possible by generous contributions from:

AldrichPears Associates

Office of McFarland Biggar Architects + Designers

Bing Thom Architects and Simon Fraser University City Program

GeoSim Systems

Marcon Developments

Reliance Properties

John Atkin and Andy Coupland, changingvancouver.wordpress.com

Henriquez Partners Architects

Rethink

 

Vancouver home photographs: Office of McFarlane Biggar Architects + Designers

Vancouver model: James Bligh

Choose YOUR Vancouver photographs courtesy of Vancouver Sun; except BC Bike Race 2015, photo: Dave Silver

 Vancouver: Then and Now contemporary photographs courtesy of Andy Coupland;

historic photographs courtesy of City of Vancouver Archives and Vancouver Public Library.

Virtual Vancouver 3D city model animation provided courtesy of GeoSim Systems.

Aerial photographs of Vancouver: Waite Air Photos

Digital retouching of aerial photos: The Lab—Professional Image Works

Historical artefacts: Museum of Vancouver

 

The Urbanarium and Museum of Vancouver are grateful for the support of Rositch Hemphill Architects, Marcon Investments Ltd., Wesgroup Properties LP, Macdonald Development Corporation, Glotman Simpson, Richard Henriquez, Henriquez Partners Architects, Rethink, Adera Development Corporation, BTY Consulting Group, Brooks Pooni Associates, PFS Studio, Bruce Haden, Andrew Gruft, Leslie Van Duzer, and Marta Farevaag.

 

Special thanks to the Museum of Vancouver’s institutional supporters:

City of Vancouver, BC Arts Council, and the Province of British Columbia.