WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE

On Thursday, August 10, 2023, the Window Research Institute, in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), held the symposium “Underground Anxieties” at the CCA, which was also streamed online.

The symposium was organized as part of the second year of the CCA–WRI Research Fellowship Program 2022–2024, developed under the theme “Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet.” In 2023, the program focused on “Below,” examining the relationship between underground environments and light.

Reflecting this focus, the three fellows presented research projects on windows and building codes in earth shelters, the under- and overground built environments of uranium mining, and the visual environment of underground shelters.

 

2023 CCA–WRI Research Fellows and Projects:

Andrea Alberto Dutto (RWTH Aachen University)
“Earth-Shelter Builders and the Code“

Oxana Gourinovitch (RWTH Aachen University)
“The Under- and Overground Built Environments of the Soviet-German Uranium Mining Corporation Wismut“

Tomomi Miyata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
“Visual Function in Earth shelters from the viewpoint of emergency sustainability”

 

Following the fellows’ presentations, advisory board members Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Jungyoon Kim offered responses, which were followed by a discussion.

The archived video of the symposium is available on the CCA website.