Browsing by Subject "Housing"
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Backyard Densification: Resectioning Urban Residential Lots
(2017-08-09)City densification techniques have become stagnant. Suburban land use needed to be revisited and a resectioning of lots implemented. This thesis investigates the typical characteristics of the suburban city lands, ... -
Built for Change: An Adaptive Approach to the Diversification of Halifax’s Residential Neighbourhoods
(2021-07-26)Residential patterns across Canada have longstanding social and urban qualities that are no longer suited to our current socio-economic world, including smaller and more diverse households and the need to integrate activities ... -
Circular Economic Approach To Dharavi: Existing Self-Build Framework Intervention
(2023-04-12)Informal settlements are rapidly growing worldwide. This is the result of rural population migration moving into urban capitals like Mumbai leading to a scarcity of space. They establish slum communities within the ... -
Community and High-Density Housing: An Architecture of Social Capital
(2015)This thesis examines community development at high-densities in Vancouver, British Columbia. It understands community development through the lens of bridging and bonding social capital and their related social network ... -
Dwelling in Harmony: Mitigating Biodiversity Loss through Ecological Cohabitation
(2023-07-12)Though ecological destruction is not an inherent requirement for human habitation, we often design our homes to the detriment of native species. As the human population continuously increases, as does our need for new ... -
An Evaluation of Low Cost Housing Program (KPR-BTN), a Case Study in Jabotabek, Indonesia
(1992)This paper describes and evaluates the KPR-BTN housing program that is currently delivering about 60,000 low cost housing units per year in urban Indonesia with the aid of the government. The government's objective for ... -
A Few Square Meters: Blurring Boundaries and Designing for Urban Density in Hong Kong
(2022-04-13)A few square meters. This is the amount of space most Hong Kong residents can call their own in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. This thesis will aim to re-imagine these ‘few square meters’, in the ... -
Housing and Addiction: Designing for the 'Hard to House' in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
(2012-04-04)The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver is one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods and one of Canada’s poorest. Once home to city hall and a bustling entertainment district, this neighbourhood has slowly been overtaken by an ... -
In My Place: Fostering Connection and Continuity in Canada's Aging Rural Communities
(2024-04-11)Facing Canada's demographic shift toward an aging population, this thesis addresses the challenges of aging in rural communities, where services for older adults are often lacking. This thesis proposes intergenerational ... -
Much "ADU" About a Lot: How Social Relations Influence the Affordability of Accessory Dwelling Units in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
(2017-04-17)This research examines Detached Accessory Dwelling Units (DADUs) in Edmonton, Alberta. In Edmonton, these types of units are referred to as Garage/Garden Suites, however, in other municipalities they go by a variety of ... -
My House is Your House: Toward a New Composition of Living and Working in the City
(2023-07-19)This thesis investigates the housing accommodation that combines living with working, commonly referred to today as “live/work.” Expanding on the notion of living and working beyond its literal interpretation as live/work, ... -
Neuroscience and Architecture:A Study of Housing for Seniors
(2024-04-11)This thesis focuses on the design of kitchen-dining spaces for autonomous to semi-autonomous seniors that addresses their neural needs, taking into consideration the declines that are occurring in the brain. Designers ... -
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Party Wall Housing: Objects in Environments as Contestation
(2020-04-14)The front line of architecture is the housing crisis, but is also a crisis of how we live. The home is where structural principles of society are created and reinforced. The city has become an all-encompassing domestic ... -
Planting Old-Growth Cities: A Dynamic Approach to a Modern Paradigm
(2023-07-20)This thesis proposes a groundbreaking modular, metabolistic architecture framework near Halifax’s waterfront in Nova Scotia, Canada. It addresses the crisis of commodified housing by challenging conventional ownership ... -
Quilting Urban Fabric: Imagining Patchwork Quilting as an Architectural Methodology for Sustainability and Collective Care
(2022-07-28)As a tradition of making that is both material and social, patchwork quilting is a practice of domestic craft with meaningful potential to inform architectural and urban design in the interest of cultural, environmental, ... -
Type Nouveau: A Typological Approach to Modern Suburbia
(2016-04-08)Developed in the early part of the 20th century, prevalent in North America in the 1950s - 80s, the suburb as we know it is no longer relevant — particularly within the mid-urban condition. Rising housing costs, lack of ... -
We Meet In The Street: Combating Youth Out-Migration In Halifax By Re-Connecting Multi-Unit Housing To The City Street
(2017-04-10)Density in smaller cities can be difficult due to slow or stagnant population growth. In Halifax, future growth of the city relies heavily on the attraction and retention of young adults. Studies show that high costs of ...