| This thesis investigates the condition of edge, at the boundary between agricultural and suburban lands, in the suburban city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Surrey is an area where development is expanding and encroaching on fertile agricultural land. In addressing this interface between the growing city and the agricultural lands, both the physical and perceived boundaries were used to develop a new strategy. The program is an agriculture park whose infrastructure and architecture acts as mediation between the suburban and agricultural boundary. By measuring, documenting and observing different edges, durations and flows, a site, infrastructure and architecture is developed that not only responds to the existing condition but cultivates cross-pollination of the zone between the suburban and agricultural. This zone is currently being appropriated by the surrounding suburban area. This new interface is revealed visually and physically through the various park amenities and its infrastructure links the growing suburban community with the agricultural farmland and vice versa. |
