Browsing by Subject "architecture"
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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 ... -
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) ... -
Fields and Flows: Harmonizing Township Development with Riverine Health Through the Local Industrial Use and Cycling of Sedimentary Materials
(2022-12-16)As hydrosocial creatures, rivers and streams are intimately connected to our existence and are strongly influenced by fragmentation and flow disruption. Across the globe, waterways are depleting at alarming rates; since ... -
Food Culture in Western Canada: Using Architecture to Define a Local Cuisine Through the Farm to Table Method
(2015-04-02)This thesis focuses on food culture in Edmonton, Alberta, and explores how architectural intervention may be informed by the farm-to-table method in order to create a more local cuisine. Edmonton is a city with diverse ... -
Go Skateboarding: Sculpting Form and Landscape for Inclusive Connection in Halifax’s Urban Core
(2023-08-15)In many cities, skateboarding is treated as a nuisance; a lack of understanding surrounding its positive reality inhibits its space within the city and prevents meaningful investment or consideration at the municipal level. ... -
Growing the Network: Cultivating Alternative Food Systems in the Prairie City
(2019-08-06)The province of Alberta faces considerable challenges to food security due to urban expansion into agricultural land, loss of landscape identity, and deficits in fruit and vegetable production. While inefficient global ... -
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 ... -
HYBRID SPACE: DESIGNING THE INTERFACE OF PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL PUBLICS
(2019-04-04)The term “mixed reality” (MR) describes an environment comprised of real-time, spatially-linked physical and digital content connected through the interface of digital technologies. While social and technological trends ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Learning from Eelgrass: A Transformative Spa Experience to Restore Balance Between Humans and Nature
(2023-08-15)While the use of natural materials has proven to reduce embodied carbon emissions, the success of sustainable interventions ultimately depends on shifting the environmental ethos of humans. Here lies an important role for ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Memory and Myth:Storytelling as a Design Tool for a Youth Camp in Haida Gwaii
(2012-04-04)Located at Swan Bay on the islands of Haida Gwaii (formerly the Queen Charlotte Islands) in Pacific Northwestern British Columbia, this thesis uses the mode of ‘storytelling’ to design a cultural education camp for the ... -
The Missing Half: Reintegrating Women Into Pakistan’s Public Spaces in Lyari, Karachi
(2019-08-07)Women spatially inhabit a city differently than men, who are the default users in a patriarchal society. They negotiate the city differently, and they also perceive the boundaries of space differently. In the low-income ... -
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 ... -
Narrative as Ethos: A Method for Adaptive Reuse
(2019-04-05)This thesis proposes a method of studying architectural heritage that develops a narrative as an adaptive reuse methodology of conservation to discover what is truly valued within a heritage site. The personification of ... -
NEW PLA(Y)CES OF LEARNING AND EXCHANGE: A PROTOTYPE TOWARDS EDUCATIONAL SPACES FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR CAREGIVERS IN A MODERN CONTEXT
(2016-04-08)Presently, there are lack of programs, services and indoor places in central Halifax for children (aged 0 – 6) and the caregivers who stay home with them. This thesis proposes the design of two casual “soft play based” ... -
Nourished by Design: Public Architecture as Social Infrastructure
(2021-04-09)This thesis reimagines the role of public buildings in urban society arguing that their contemporary value comes not only from providing public services but also from being accessible places for socialization in the public ... -
Obsolescence as Opportunity: A Case for Adaptive Reuse of Century Old Industrial Architecture, Saint John, New Brunswick
(2022-04-14)This thesis explores adaptive reuse architecture as a strategy for reviving small-scale turn of the century industrial buildings located in historic urban centres. Through urban analysis, this research develops an approach ...