Browsing by Subject "Post-Industrial"
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Activating Traces: Reconnecting Tidal Flows and Past Landscapes Through the Reuse of a Post-Industrial Textile Mill
(2019-08-22)This thesis investigates an adaptive reuse of a former textile mill, a post-industrial ruin built in 1884 in the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. Natural tidal waters once acted as a means of distribution for the town and ... -
Engaging The Post-Industrial Frontier: Revealing the Inherent Nature of the Manufactured Landscape Through the Processes of its Reclamation
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates the nature of horror and fascination experienced when confronted with manufactured landscapes. The inherent qualities found at these radically manipulated and altered places are often comparable ... -
Industrial Organicism: A New Organic Architecture to Grow the Post-Industrial Prairie Landscape
(2017-08-31)Building from the legacy and theoretical frameworks of organicism, this thesis is an investigation towards the development of true living architecture, a constructed biology existing as a function of its dynamic environment ... -
Inhabiting Manufactured Landscape: An Architectural Approach to Minnesota’s Post-Industrial Iron Range
(2020-08-26)Surface mining has created manufactured landscapes all over the world. While often viewed in a negative light as ‘scars on the land,’ they are a tangible imprint of humanity’s action on the landscape. Through the lens ... -
New Energy Landscapes of a Post-Oil Alberta
(2020-08-26)Energy governs the way society has been structured. Oil is currently the dominant framework that connects society’s political and socio-economic narratives. This framework, the ‘Petroleum Grid’, organizes society around ... -
TIDAL TOWN: REACTIVATING A TOWN'S CONNECTION TO THE WATERFRONT THROUGH INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC PROGRAM
(2018-07-31)This thesis examines the potential for the adaptive reuse of post-industrial infrastructure located in or near rural towns. Many of these towns experience diminished industry and are directly affected, both socially and ...