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A Coal Miner's Shadow
(2012-08-13)
Light and shadow have the capacity to move us emotionally and create atmospheres that allow us to better understand stories. This thesis explores how light and shadow can propel the design of a music hall and museum space ...
Interchange Intervention: Inhabiting Urban Highway Infrastructure
(2013-12-12)
Urban highway infrastructure in North America has been singularly designed for the automobile, severing parts of the urban fabric, blighting our once-thriving city centres and resulting in spaces that are void of the human ...
Art in the City: A New Vancouver Art Gallery as a Means of Re-affirming Culture and Vitalizing the Urban Realm
(2011-04-11)
This thesis explores the possibility that a well designed and situated urban art gallery might improve a problematic urban condition in Vancouver. The aim is to vitalize a neglected urban space, and connect the waterfront ...
Emergent Urbanism: A Framework for Responsive Connectivity in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats
(2014-04-04)
The city remains one of humanity’s greatest challenges, demanding solutions to complex problems that arise from a network of interoperating systems at different scales. As urban centres densify across Canada, the dialogue ...
A Model for Public Agrarian Architecture on the Suburban Edge
(2014-04-04)
The thesis project is a study for the integration of farming, urban use, and ecology at the edge of the city. The aims of the test-of-principle are to connect the urban consumer with the rural food producer, processing and ...
Extreme Adaptive Reuse: The Analytics of Deconstruction and the Upcycling of Building Materials
(2014-08-05)
This thesis focuses on the process of building deconstruction and the upcycling of building materials. It critiques the staggering amount of waste the construction industry (and by extension architectural profession) ...
HOW CAN THE RE-DESIGN OF A RIVERSIDE SITE RECONCILE AN OLD URBAN FABRIC AND NEW COMMUNITY? THE ADAPTIVE REUSE OF URBAN RIVERSIDE SITE IN HONGKOU DISTRICT, CITY OF SHANGHAI
(2014-04-04)
For hundreds of years, the riverside area of Shanghai was one of the city's most vibrant
places, making it an important part of Shanghai’s history. By following the story of the rivers, the life and culture of Shanghai's ...
Building ecoSystems Integration: An Approach to Building with Nature
(2014-08-25)
This thesis investigates the relationship between architecture and nature and is positioned with the understanding that human beings are not separate from nature and therefore, our processes of design and construction are ...
Design with Nature: Learning from Ecological Systems to Educate the Urban Dweller
(2013-04-05)
Nature has an effective approach to cycling materials and energy flows to promote life. This thesis aims to expose urbanite users to nature’s way of cycling materials. The seawall is the largest public space in Vancouver ...
Inhabiting the Threshold: Housing and Public-Private Interface at Halifax’s St. Patrick’s-Alexandra School
(2014-04-04)
A public-private interface is a dynamic threshold between the private residence and the public city. It can be critically examined in terms of social scales, defensibility and ownership of space.
As cities densify, they ...