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A New Water Infrastructure Paradigm for the Arid City of Kerman, Iran
(2015)
This thesis investigates ancient methods of water storage, delivery, access and treatment that have formed the basis of traditional Persian settlements and culture. These methods are contrasted with modern techniques and ...
Engaging Ecology Through Architecture: Reconnecting Bedford to its Bay
(2015)
This thesis studies the relationship between the urban environment and ecosystem and the intersection between ecosystem and architectural project. While urban sites are commonly understood as separate and unique from their ...
Site Specific Regionalism
(2015)
As architecture continues towards a globalized practice, the increasingly standardized approach to building has resulted in an inflation of architecture with minimal sense of place. These designs often impose upon their ...
Scope for the Imagination: Cultivating Craft in the Abandoned Farmscapes of Prince Edward Island
(2022-04-13)
In the year 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery published the widely known novel, Anne of Green Gables. Taking place on Prince Edward Island, a major theme throughout the story is the act of establishing a meaningful connection to ...
Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery
(2022-04-18)
Secular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While ...
Impacts of farming systems on landscape heterogeneity in Southern Saskatchewan cropland
(2022-04-13)
Organic farms have been recognized to have higher biodiversity than conventional farms, but it is unclear if organic farms are conserving more perennial habitat in their fields than conventional farms under large scale ...
Framing the Forest: Restoring Nova Scotia's Hidden Landscapes of Extraction
(2022-04-12)
Nova Scotia is home to vast areas of ecologically unique and sensitive Acadian forest, almost all of which has been cut down and regrown several times, damaging its integrity as habitat for wildlife and as economic and ...
Tidal Gardening: An Architectural Response to Flood Mitigation on the Salmon River
(2022-07-07)
As climate change intensifies and sea-levels rise, flooding is once again a problematic event that is predicted to occur more and more frequently worldwide. The destructive power of the flood is a real threat to our habitat, ...
Constructing New Narratives to Reveal Diverse Identities in Richmond, BC
(2022-07-07)
With the capitalist expansion of urban cities today, different physical and social forces exist, collaborate and challenge each other on the land we call home. In Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, where multi-ideologies ...
Narrative City: Latin American Home-City Landscapes in Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2023-08-22)
Storytelling lies at the center of cultural production and exchange. In smaller immigrant
communities without dedicated cultural infrastructure and established networks of
gathering spaces, oral storytelling functions ...