Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Architecture"
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Dynamic Architecture in the Canadian Arctic
(2019-04-05)This thesis investigates changing conditions in the Canadian Arctic. Reduced yearly sea ice extent due to anthropogenic global climate change has spurred a significant increase in marine traffic within the Canadian Arctic ... -
Edible Ecologies : An Architecture for the Social Life of Food
(2017-08-10)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 ... -
Education as Cultural Healing and Empowerment: Spaces for Learning in the Context of Anishinaabe Communities Surrounding the Georgian Bay
(2017-04-07)This thesis seeks for cultural healing and empowerment through learning spaces reflective of Anishinaabe worldviews. The program responds to current efforts by the Anishinaabe people surrounding the Great Lakes to develop ... -
Electric Space: A New Narrative for Aging Hydroelectric Facilities in B.C.
(2017-04-11)This thesis addresses the hydroelectric structures of the Buntzen Generating Station located within a restricted area of Indian Arm Provincial Park in British Colombia, Canada. Situated between ocean and mountain, the ... -
Embodied, Embedded, Emergent: New Digital Strategies for Cross Laminated Timber Fabrication and Use
(2013-08-09)This thesis focuses on analyzing Cross Laminated Timber manufacture and use for the purpose of suggesting ways to enrich involved technology through the further application of digital fabrication techniques. Framed within ... -
The Emergence of a Superstructure: Griffintown's Revival Inspired by Surviving Industrial Artifacts”
(2011-04-12)Montréal’s Griffintown is a neighbourhood facing multiple transformations. Formerly a working class district gathered around warehouses and industries based along the Lachine Canal, it is home today to various avant-garde ... -
Engaging Buildings: Crafting Interventions for a Changing Environment
(2024-07-31)This thesis explores how human-scale interventions and craftsmanship can be critical components of a built environment for agency and expression through change and adaptation of space. By implementing spatial interventions ... -
Engaging Ecology Through Architecture: Reconnecting Bedford to its Bay
(2015)This thesis studies the relationship between the urban environment and ecosystem and the intersection between ecosystem and architectural project. While urban sites are commonly understood as separate and unique from their ... -
Engrained: Re-imagining the Past Heavy Timber Vision of Squamish for Today's Landscapes
(2018-04-06)This thesis aims to make a vision which existed in the past be alive on its own terms today. This work celebrates the past heavy timber cultural practices of British Columbia’s old-growth forestry towns, while acknowledging ... -
Environ(mental) Architecture: How Architecture Shapes Our Mental Health Through the Use of Public Space
(2019-04-05)This thesis examines the potential of architecture to improve mental health through the design of public space. To determine the programmatic needs of a site, this document uses a human perception framework to analyze the ... -
Environmental Education Network: Developing a Frame to Grow Ecological Literacy In Edmonton, Alberta
(2021-07-09)This thesis explores environmental education as a network that connects urban and natural environments to encourage transformation towards a more inquisitive and nature integrated society. A study of environmental education, ... -
Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery
(2022-04-18)Secular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While ... -
Event Stations: A New Narrative for Declining Gas Stations
(2020-08-10)This thesis examines the abandonment and potential of gas stations in Windsor, Ontario. As ubiquitous structures of the urban roadside, gas stations became an important piece of infrastructure for the city and the ... -
Field Guide to an Urban Nature: Designing for ecological democracy on McNabs Island
(2017-05-12)In the middle of the city and on the edge of the ocean, McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park is an expansive protected area in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada’s largest metropolitan area. Given its location at ... -
Find and Play: Fostering Creative Agency Through Making with Found Objects
(2023-08-02)This thesis is about our relationship to the objects around us: the things we make, use, and waste. It posits the need to take ownership over anthropic material through the act of making with found objects to reassign value ... -
Finding Common Ground: The Monuments of Ramesses the Great and Urban Transformations
(2015)This thesis explores the potential of an urban transformation that negotiates between heritage and urban development. The subjects of this study are the monuments of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel, Egypt, which underwent an ... -
Finding Peace and Reconciliation: Healing and Public Identity for the Black Nova Scotian Community in Halifax
(2021-07-13)Nova Scotia has a rich history that outlines the journey and contribution of the Black community from the founding of the province and, certainly, the country of Canada. Yet, the Black community in Nova Scotia has been ... -
FOOD NETWORK: ARCHITECTURE OF CONNECTION IN THE LOWER NINTH WARD
(2014-04-04)In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans with widespread flooding and infrastructural damage. The Lower Ninth Ward has since experienced a slow recovery from the catastrophic flooding it endured. ... -
Forgotten Ecologies: Architecture for Natural Coexistence within Albertan Agrarian Landscapes
(2023-07-19)Western epistemologies based on a dualism between man and “nature” have created economic systems at war with ecological systems. The segmented Alberta prairie landscape perpetuates this dualistic thought through economic ... -
Four Architectural Design Methods for the Active Perceiver: A Study of Phenomenology and Place in the Architectural World
(2019-08-22)Dissecting the work of phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this thesis aims to generate a collection of design methods founded in theories of perception and place. In an effort to comprehend the intangible aspects of ...