Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "nature"
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Connecting Culture and Nature in Detroit's Downtown Core: The Design of a Technical College Campus
(2012-08-15)This thesis addresses the City of Detroit`s transformation from a thriving center of trade and commerce to its present abandoned state. Due to the decentralization of industry and massive suburbanization since the ... -
Feeling the Pull of Gravity: Reconnecting Recreation, Nature, and Community through Public Outdoor Recreation Facilities in Revelstoke, British Columbia
(2012-08-10)This thesis suggests that architectural interventions can aid in reintegrating an ethos of interconnectedness between recreationists and nature, as well as between recreationists and community, by emphasizing and intertwining ... -
The Metabolic Morphology of Chora: A Building Is An Organism On A Threshold
(2012-04-09)Expanding on the fields of bio-mimicry, morpho-ecologies, and dynamics and fluidity in architecture, this thesis proposes architecture as organism. It suggests that as organism, architecture is inherently responsive to ...