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Inhabiting Flow: Strategies for Tourist Oriented Architecture in Volatile Icelandic Landscapes
(2019-08-16)
The volatile terrain in Iceland, a landscape of perpetual flux in the space of places, flows and time, demands building methods which are empathetic to its unwieldy behaviour. An inundation of tourists over the past decade ...
Return of the Lake: Repairing Mexico City's Relationship to Water
(2019-08-29)
Mexico City originated as an island city founded in a vast lake system. Today, the lakes have been desiccated and the city is unable to alleviate the thirst of 21 million people. Water infrastructure is failing; the ...
Activating Traces: Reconnecting Tidal Flows and Past Landscapes Through the Reuse of a Post-Industrial Textile Mill
(2019-08-22)
This thesis investigates an adaptive reuse of a former textile mill, a post-industrial ruin built in 1884 in the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. Natural tidal waters once acted as a means of distribution for the town and ...