Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Architecture"
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Collective Housing: Linking Ecological and Social Sustainability
(2011-12-14)A constellation of challenges, including changing family types and shrinking household size, housing affordability, and ecological impact, can be addressed through a different approach to private dwelling. These are ... -
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 ... -
Community Repair Through Informal Building Approaches
(2019-08-27)Research is based on an analysis of successful approaches to building and urban design in both formal and informal settings, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. In an attempted to repair Mexico’s abandoned suburban ... -
Confronting Hegemony: Architectural Dialogues in Northern Ontario
(2016-04-08)The aim of this thesis is to assert the role of architecture as an active mediator in shaping the social, physical and economic space of the indigenous reserve of northern Ontario. This contested region, bounded by the end ... -
Connecting the City: Redefining a Railway Divide in Duncan, British Columbia
(2015-04-02)This architectural thesis seeks to examine how public architecture and urban design can facilitate increased social connection and exchange in North American cities through the suggested development of an unused rail ... -
Connecting the Storied Landscape of the Shubenacadie
(2020-08-19)For more than 100 years, the Shubenacadie has been forgotten by the collective consciousness of many Nova Scotians. This thesis examines the cultural practices of the Mi’kmaq, the Acadians, and the British as they engaged ... -
Constructing New Narratives to Reveal Diverse Identities in Richmond, BC
(2022-07-07)With the capitalist expansion of urban cities today, different physical and social forces exist, collaborate and challenge each other on the land we call home. In Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, where multi-ideologies ... -
Coptic Diaspora: Supporting Immigrants and Fostering Traditions
(2021-07-09)How immigrants integrate into their host countries has been debated and studied since the early twentieth century. While Canada celebrates the fostering of the immigrant’s identity, the integration process often leads to ... -
Critical Care: Farming and Building as if the Earth Mattered
(2021-07-09)Such is the critical condition of our earth that reuniting building and farming is an urgently needed form of care for planetary well-being and survival. Lessons from utopias, communes, and nature are used in this thesis ... -
Cross-Cultural Landscapes: Integrating Islam into the Rural Canadian Vernacular
(2019-04-05)Canada is a country of immigrants. Over generations our iconic landscape has offered a focal point for integration and been an important symbol of our identity. Yet as new cultures integrate their identity often fluctuates ... -
Dark Honey: A Geo-Architectural Fiction of Extraction and Extinction
(2023-07-13)What does it mean to be human? As a species, we are defined by the contaminations that compose us and that are imposed by us. Spellbound by progress, our techno-hubris leaves no surface on Earth unaffected by perpetual ... -
A Day in the Life: Live/Work Architecture Utilizing Autism-Based Inclusive Design
(2019-08-09)This thesis explores architectural implications of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and tests design strategies in a live/work complex on the waterfront of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Manifestations of ASD differ enormously between ... -
De-capitalizing San Francisco’s Waterfront through the Collective Memory of Resistance
(2023-07-14)For over two centuries, San Francisco’s Waterfront has been a mechanism for capitalism, fostering an environment of economic “advancements” that harbours capital greed. As a line of exchange, the Waterfront is a capitalist ... -
Defunding Halifax Police with an Art Historical and Contemporary Framework in Architecture
(2023-07-19)Policing and surveillance contribute to the segregation and oppression of marginalized communities across North America. The police state’s power is maintained through architecture and urban design, making the architect ... -
Design Principles of Inclusion for Public Schools
(2017-04-10)Including children with disabilities in the public classroom is morally right; yet in the absence of appropriate support, it often results in a learning environment that is morally wrong. This thesis studies how to ... -
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 ... -
Designing for Sensitive Sites: Enabling Sustainable Interaction In Ecologically Sensitive Sites
(2015-04-06)Design for sensitive ecological sites while promoting interaction with those sites requires a clear understanding of where the site’s fragility lies and what measures would be most appropriate to minimize intrusion while ... -
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 ... -
Desmos: Design, Inventiveness and Collaboration in a Time of Crisis
(2013-08-06)The modernist polykatikia typology (translating to multi-dwelling) arose in Athens after the population boom of the 1960s. Now sixty years later, the demands of the city have changed. No longer is there a need to build ... -
Drifting to Collective: Combatting a Hidden Epidemic Through Urban Housing
(2023-07-18)Historically, villages have consisted of people choosing to dwell together out of necessity for survival. This social interaction catalyzes what makes these villages successful, interdependent communities. The current ...