Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Calgary"
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Collage of the Senses: Healing Devices for Transitional Pediatric Care in Calgary, Alberta
(2022-04-11)The current approach to pediatric healthcare design throughout North America produces three care scales: hospitals, clinics, and home care services. These forms of healthcare architecture often fail to create spaces that ... -
Compact Living: Rethinking Calgary's Laneways
(2012-09-21)Through architectural design, this investigation explores a strategy for defining the back alley as a new place of community and dwelling. The study considers ideas to design living spaces that offer amenities in a compact ... -
Mapping Possibilities for Conviviality: Inclusive Dialogues to Revitalize Calgary's Heart
(2023-07-13)This thesis serves as a framework for the re-imagination of urban infrastructure. Calgary’s Canadian Pacific rail corridor is the study site, bisecting the downtown and creating exclusionary space in the city’s heart. The ... -
The Parallel and the Perpendicular: Reconnecting Calgarians to the Bow River
(2015)The rapid population growth in Calgary since the oil drilling boom of the 1970s has led to a diversification of Calgarians in terms of ethnicity. socio-economic status, and age. Without any unifying public spaces, the city ... -
The River is the Solution: Infrastructure of Dwelling in Calgary’s Urban Landscape
(2017-08-30)This thesis explores the architectural implications of flooding through the lens of landscape urbanism. Developing a critical understanding of ecological discourse, I consider dualism as the underlying cause of climate ...