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If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring Architecture as a Narrative Medium through the Rehabilitation of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
(2012-08-07)
This thesis explores how architecture, like literature and fi lm, uses narrative techniques to tell a story. The museum exemplifies this concept of architecture as a narrative medium,
as its social mandate is to articulate ...
The Shaker City Dance Hall
(2014-04-04)
This thesis explores Shaker (architectural) intentionality through an examination of and proposed addition to the Shaker’s Holy City design template. The Holy City drawing and its accompanying text, ‘Explanations of the ...
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Performance Spaces as Catalyst for Community Revitalization.
(2014-04-04)
This thesis investigates how “performance” can enhance the urban fabric of Dartmouth NS, and assist in the revitalization of the area, creating a “new community image”. In past decades Dartmouth has struggled to maintain ...
Alternative Reality: The Monument, the Megastructure and the Luxury Hotel
(2015-04-22)
This thesis inherits the infrastructure of Lower Manhattan’s Exit 2, where the Brooklyn Bridge and elevated FDR highway intersect. A recent proposal for a nearby ultra-exclusive luxury hotel is controversial. The site faces ...
Collective Housing: Linking Ecological and Social Sustainability
(2011-12-14)
A constellation of challenges, including changing family types and shrinking household size, housing affordability, and ecological impact, can be addressed through a different approach to private dwelling. These are ...
Updating Library, Architectural Adaptation in Response to the Virtual Space of the Internet
(2013-12-13)
The explosion of new technologies, predominantly the increased inhabitation of the virtual space of the Internet, implies an emergent organization that challenges the existing structures of our established institutions. ...
Bridging The Gap: A Healthier City Through Green Belts, Parks and Recreation
(2013-08-23)
This thesis investigates the architectural role of green belts and recreational zones as
one solution to urban sprawl, ultimately creating healthier, more livable cities. A list of
concepts and guidelines will be derived ...
Open [Architecture] School
(2013-04-05)
The thesis will propose a decentralized building type for the contemporary development of urban architecture schools. The largest component of architecture education left out of universities at present is the ability for ...
Trailblazing: Empowering Rural Youth Through Mobile Architecture
(2013-08-09)
This thesis proposes a network of small-scale architectural interventions to address a growing issue of youth substance abuse in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Thorburn, a hub of a larger region of dispersed communities, acts ...
Squint / Unsquint: Associative Composition as a Key to Facade Analysis and Design
(2011-08-09)
This study explores compositional abstraction in architecture. The act of squinting adopts
propositions from Christopher Alexander and structuralist Marcel Mauss. An analytical
method based upon element density and ...