Browsing by Subject "landscape"
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Between Figure and Ground: Articulating Heterotopia in the Suburban Paradox
(2013-04-05)This thesis focuses on exploring figure-ground within the amorphous suburban green space of Calgary, Alberta. It is an edgeless prairie city, flooded with unused space and tethered by freeways that stretch toward the ... -
Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland
(2021-04-09)Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland investigates collective memory in rural Newfoundland and the act of the Newfoundland Resettlement Program. The Newfoundland Resettlement, a ... -
Cultivating Landscape: A Demonstration Farm in Rouge National Urban Park, Ontario
(2015)This thesis addresses the role of architecture in the design of large parks, and the role of landscape in the design of architecture. Given the scale and importance of national parks to identity and imagination, how might ... -
Guardians of the Seascape: Considering the Next Era of Lighthouses in Rural Nova Scotia Communities
(2016-12-21)This thesis studies ways in which architecture and the coastal infrastructure of lighthouses can help preserve a relationship with the seascape, encouraging rural Nova Scotian communities to engage and respond to their ... -
Out of Site, Out of Mind: Reading the Ground as Architectural Language in Waste Landscapes
(2023-08-27)The wastescape is a type of de-industrialized and contaminated landscape. Bound by water and unseen in urban areas, they often remain outside of our consciousness. Current remediation practices involve intensive operations ... -
Re-imagining a Petrochemical Landscape in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
(2016-04-07)This thesis addresses the vast petrochemical landscape of the Imperial Oil Refinery situated within the urban context of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The recent decommissioning of the refinery has reduced it to an arcane ...