Goodweather


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Since 2010 Goodweather has produced a diverse body of work that includes architecture, installations, exhibitions, publications, furniture, websites, film, and photography.

Today we specialize as design consultants to cultural organizations, artists, and curators working on projects related to contemporary art, museology, and public access to cultural material / material culture.

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Projects have been featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Migros Museum (Zurich),  The Banff Centre for the Arts & Creativity, The Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montreal), The Museum of Vancouver, Artspeak (Vancouver), 221A Artist Run Centre (Vancouver), The Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina), Emily Carr University of Art and Design and in publications including Cabinet Magazine (New York), *Wallpaper, Canadian Architect (Toronto), Pidgin Magazine (Princeton Architectural Press, and Front Magazine (Western Front Gallery, Vancouver).



Shed / Light

Kaleden, British Columbia
Private Commission

Architecture

2013


This rural studio situated in the Okanagan Valley will remain entirely off-the-grid. The design emerged from a palette of reclaimed materials collected on the property that included 40 year old orchard crates, barn timbers, floor boards from the local school gymnasium, and a door from a turn-of-the-century San Francisco sailor's bar that mysteriously made its way north.

The design responds to the various, and often competing aspirations of a young family who have embarked on a long term process of transforming a 5 acre farm into an organic cornucopia. Having very little to spend up front, the desire was to set up a basic seasonal dwelling that would permit the couple to begin cleaning up the property over the course of coming summers.

The colourful patterning and simple form of the building reference a local vernacular of basic building types comprised of picker shacks, fruit stands, and utility sheds. The building is visible from a nearby highway where the checkered cladding catches the eye of summer tourists in search of fresh fruit and vegetables.



Pop Bottle Barge


Design 
Fabrication

2010

Designed and built in 12 days for the School of Fish Foundation summer fundraiser to heighten awareness around sustainable seafood harvesting practices, this dining pavilion floats on over 1700 recycled pop bottles positioned below the floor. Made entirely from donated materials, we worked with Matt Kirk-Buss of Loki Ocean Enterprises to engineer the structure to float safely with up to 12 guests on board. We built the pavilion on “the hard” at Granville Island Marina and then had it towed across False Creek and then craned into position (over cars and sailboats) near ‘C’ restaurant on the opposite side of the harbour. Dinners were prepared by some of Vancouver’s top seafood chefs throughout the summer with a rotating menu of beautifully presented and sustainably harvested seafood.