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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...