For children around the world, patterns in their daily lives are solidifying their relationships with their environment and society. This thesis reimagines the role of the street as a medium for children to engage with ...

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 ...

In today’s housing market, housing quality and affordability are hard to come by. Poor quality, both economic and social, are factors leading to the demise of urban housing. While prefab systems provide a better building ...

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, ...

People have become disconnected from the producing, preparing, sharing, and celebrating of food that is such a fundamental element of identity and culture. The global industrial food system has reduced the social ...

This thesis examines building system integration for Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), an emerging engineered wood building product. CLT is structurally robust, constructionally efficient, and environmentally friendly, but the ...

This thesis will address the revitalization of The Powerhouse, a former power plant in Victoria, BC. The plant is located in a post-industrial landscape just north of downtown. The premise is to reuse this industrial ...

This thesis explores the potential for a detail or joint to be the generator of form. By thinking through making – this requires to create, to gain tacit knowledge (in addition to explicit knowledge), and to translate ...

Lake Banook, an urban lake situated in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, plays an important role in both community and international recreational activity. Although the lake currently functions well, it could be improved. ...

Deindustrialization is a phenomenon apparent in many countries across the world, but while the majority of the revitalization focus has been on large metropolitan cities, little consideration has been taken into account ...