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An Everyday Monument: Architecture as a Frame to Reveal the Historical and Liminal Site
(2015)
The city is a manifestation of culture, containing its history and informing its transformation. Preservation and erasure of the historical city through regulation distances its artifacts and spaces from everyday lived ...
Living Seniors Living Rural: Mobile Architecture as a Means to Facilitate a New Rural Ageing Typology
(2015)
With the realization of population trends and the impact the aging population will have on
our society, an architectural focus is developing. One that examines the roles seniors play
in our built environments. This focus ...
Spatial Agencies: Superimposing Media and Architecture in Public Space
(2015)
This thesis reconsiders several major urban elements in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It focuses on the original town square (the Grand Parade) and the adjacent main street (Barrington Street) that runs along the Peninsula. ...
The Parallel and the Perpendicular: Reconnecting Calgarians to the Bow River
(2015)
The rapid population growth in Calgary since the oil drilling boom of the 1970s has led to a diversification of Calgarians in terms of ethnicity. socio-economic status, and age. Without any unifying public spaces, the city ...
Cultivating Landscape: A Demonstration Farm in Rouge National Urban Park, Ontario
(2015)
This thesis addresses the role of architecture in the design of large parks, and the role of landscape in the design of architecture. Given the scale and importance of national parks to identity and imagination, how might ...
Obsolescence as Opportunity: A Case for Adaptive Reuse of Century Old Industrial Architecture, Saint John, New Brunswick
(2022-04-14)
This thesis explores adaptive reuse architecture as a strategy for reviving small-scale turn of the century industrial buildings located in historic urban centres. Through urban analysis, this research develops an approach ...
City in Motion: Anchoring Vancouver’s Active Transit Network
(2022-04-19)
This thesis examines Vancouver’s transportation networks and their impact on city-building to inform the design of an active mobility trailhead at the False Creek Flats. The proposal argues the social benefits of intersecting ...
Spatial Agency: Softening the Edges of the Architectural Apparatus
(2022-04-11)
Our whole lives play out in the built environment, yet its production is left in the hands of just a few. Recognition of inherent issues in architectural culture is not something necessarily new, and neither are efforts ...
Shifting Phenomena: Inhabiting Waterscape Infrastructure within the Annapolis River
(2022-04-11)
Throughout human history, we have viewed ourselves as separate from the landscape. This attitude can be seen in the vast array of infrastructure that now marks and modifies the landscape, interrupting and shifting temporal ...
The Power of Sound: Tuning into the Rising Volume in the Gulf of Maine.
(2022-08-17)
Marine species that function acoustically rely on sounds contained by the dynamic composition and material properties of the ocean’s reflective surface. Ocean soundscapes are being impacted by anthropogenic disturbances ...