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Interchange Intervention: Inhabiting Urban Highway Infrastructure
(2013-12-12)
Urban highway infrastructure in North America has been singularly designed for the automobile, severing parts of the urban fabric, blighting our once-thriving city centres and resulting in spaces that are void of the human ...
Extreme Adaptive Reuse: The Analytics of Deconstruction and the Upcycling of Building Materials
(2014-08-05)
This thesis focuses on the process of building deconstruction and the upcycling of building materials. It critiques the staggering amount of waste the construction industry (and by extension architectural profession) ...
Narrative as Ethos: A Method for Adaptive Reuse
(2019-04-05)
This thesis proposes a method of studying architectural heritage that develops a narrative as an adaptive reuse methodology of conservation to discover what is truly valued within a heritage site. The personification of ...
Reprogramming Sacred Monuments: Giving New Life to Stepwells in Gujarat, India
(2021-04-14)
This research is based within historicism and its inherent practices to conserve obsolete and symbolic structures. Due to their sacred nature these types of structures are often preserved, remain untouched and left to ...
Tottenham: Re[dis]covery. Architectural Intervention in a Post-Traumatic Urban Environment
(2016-08-22)
Set in 2011 following the London riots, this thesis explores the way architectural design acts as a tool of societal recovery and a catalyst for creative change in a post-traumatic urban environment.
Based on the assumption ...
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 ...
Promising Youth: Retroactive Cultural and Public Infrastructures in San Jerónimo
(2024-04-08)
Youth delinquency in Asunción, Paraguay is a prevalent issue that stems from socioeconomic factors, a lack of public space, and a broken penal system. San Jerónimo is a neighbourhood in Asunción whose community deals with ...