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Re-Settling Dawson Park: An Expanded Idea of the Friendship Centre in Edmonton, Alberta
(2016-04-08)
This thesis intends to expand on the idea of the friendship centre, embodying its original and current purpose - a middle ground between the city and indigenous culture. This middle ground will acknowledge damaging history, ...
Building for the Network Society: Spaces of Information in a Newly Connected Havana
(2016-04-11)
Since the Embargo of 1962, Cuba’s information infrastructure has been frozen. While other countries switched from copper wire to fiber-optic cables linking to a globally connected network -- the Internet -- Cuba remained ...
Seniors on the Move: Integrating Our Elderly Into the Heart of Community
(2016-04-07)
This thesis addresses society’s stance regarding the position our seniors hold within our Canadian communities. Given the predicted rise of the senior population, this thesis will focus on the province that will be hardest ...
A New 'Parkitecture': Re-Imagining the Interpretive Centre as an Interactive Route in Algonquin Provincial Park
(2016-04-08)
This thesis addresses the anthropocentric history of wilderness parks in Canada. It investigates architecture in actively interpreting the cultural layers inherent of these landscapes while promoting recreational tourism. ...
Articulating Ecology: Brownfield Remediation, Urban Agriculture and Prospects for Community Revitalization
(2015)
2015 has been declared the International Year of Soils by the United Nations. This proclamation emphasizes the soil as a basis for life and culture, its importance for agriculture, and its fragility when threatened by ...
Designing Place Specificity in a Rural Coastal Community
(2015)
This thesis explores how place specificity can lead to new economic opportunities and act to strengthen community. Place specificity refers to the morphological and climatic qualities of a given site, and how human activity ...
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 ...
Preserving the Intangible Qualities of a Building Culture: A Case Study in Windsor, N.S.
(2015)
The land-based infrastructure of the Nova Scotian boat building culture is studied in this thesis to explore how the intangible qualities of a building culture can be understood through architectural ideas. The study finds ...
Finding Common Ground: The Monuments of Ramesses the Great and Urban Transformations
(2015)
This thesis explores the potential of an urban transformation that negotiates between heritage
and urban development. The subjects of this study are the monuments of Ramesses
II in Abu Simbel, Egypt, which underwent an ...
Designing Experience: Towards an Empathic Method of Design
(2015)
This thesis investigates the relationship between the physical environment and its influence on human emotion and thought. Through a series of design explorations, the project aims to establish an elemental understanding ...