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Closing the Loop: Restoring the Hydrologic Cycle Through Architecture
(2016-04-08)
As water scarcity has become one of the most important environmental and social issues of the 21st century, the way cities and the built environment interact with water must be reconsidered. A worldwide reliance on groundwater ...
Perceptions in Procession: Architectural Interventions on Freeway Infrastructure
(2016-09-01)
The evolution of the automobile has directly impacted the formation of many cities but has
played a major role in the development of Los Angeles, and is the reason for its extending
urban forms with suburban growth. ...
Living Laneways in the City of Toronto's Residential Neighbourhoods
(2015)
Toronto’s inner city laneways provide miles of public space. A deeply rooted structure embodies generations of inhabitants which form the pattern and rhythm of harmonious settlement. Proposals to densify the laneways ...
An Everyday Monument: Architecture as a Frame to Reveal the Historical and Liminal Site
(2015)
The city is a manifestation of culture, containing its history and informing its transformation. Preservation and erasure of the historical city through regulation distances its artifacts and spaces from everyday lived ...
Living Seniors Living Rural: Mobile Architecture as a Means to Facilitate a New Rural Ageing Typology
(2015)
With the realization of population trends and the impact the aging population will have on
our society, an architectural focus is developing. One that examines the roles seniors play
in our built environments. This focus ...
Spatial Agencies: Superimposing Media and Architecture in Public Space
(2015)
This thesis reconsiders several major urban elements in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It focuses on the original town square (the Grand Parade) and the adjacent main street (Barrington Street) that runs along the Peninsula. ...
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 ...
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 ...