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CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program 2022–2024
Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet

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This booklet presents the outcomes of the CCA-WRI Research Fellowship Program 2022–2024, a three-year collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and the Window Research Institute (WRI).

Under the theme “Above/Below/Between: Light on a Damaged Planet,” the program explored the manifold meanings and architectural mediations of light in an era of ecological crisis. Organized around the three interconnected perspectives of “Above,” “Below,” and “Between,” it brought together nine research fellows from different disciplinary backgrounds to examine how the built environment is shaped by light, its absence, and its enclosure.

With an introduction by Program Director Rafico Ruiz, the booklet presents research by Emily Doucet, Andrea Alberto Dutto, Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Oxana Gourinovitch, Gökçe Günel, Tomomi Miyata Sano, Yosuke Nakamoto, Alina Nazmeeva, and Jessica Vaughn.

The PDF version of the booklet is available here.

• Details
  • Published by Canadian Centre for Architecture and Window Research Institute
  • Modified B6 (H188 × W115 mm)
  • 160 pages
  • 2026
  • ISBN：978-4-910107-01-1
  • Text in English and Japanese
  • Not for sale
• Table of contents
  • 11　Introduction
  • 21　List of Projects and Fellows
  • 25　Excerpts from the Research Projects
  • 27　Building Under the Sun
  • 39　Made of Sunshine: Urban Commons and Real Estate, Montréal, Canada
  • 51　Working Skill Sets
  • 67　Earth-Shelter Builders and the Code
  • 81　The Subdued State: The Under- and Overground Environments of Cold War Uranium Mining
  • 93　Visual Environment in Earth Shelters from the Viewpoint of Emergency Workability, Comfort and Accommodation Sustainability
  • 109　Mediating Light: The Architectures of Photographic Production
  • 123　All of the Above: A Global Future of Energy
  • 137　Salt and Land: Shifting Territories of the Salt Production Sites in the Seto Inland Sea
  • 153　About the CCA-WRI Partnership