Browsing by Subject "architecture"
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The Old Order Changeth: Rediscovering Place Through a Usable Past
(2023-04-13)On the west coast of Newfoundland is the city of Corner Brook, site of the province’s sole pulp and paper mill. During the 1920s, a planned, industrial company town grew around the mill site, introducing company housing ... -
Out of Site, Out of Mind: Reading the Ground as Architectural Language in Waste Landscapes
(2023-08-27)The wastescape is a type of de-industrialized and contaminated landscape. Bound by water and unseen in urban areas, they often remain outside of our consciousness. Current remediation practices involve intensive operations ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Porous Public Space: An Integrated Typology for Urban Housing
(2024-04-05)In response to the erosion of public space in North American cities, this thesis provides a method of integrating public space in urban housing through typology. Arising from a culture of privatism and a planning strategy ... -
The Power of Sound: Tuning into the Rising Volume in the Gulf of Maine.
(2022-08-17)Marine species that function acoustically rely on sounds contained by the dynamic composition and material properties of the ocean’s reflective surface. Ocean soundscapes are being impacted by anthropogenic disturbances ... -
Professional Undermining: Homelessness and Service as Method
(2023-04-12)The present thesis investigates homelessness and architectural practice. This thesis argues that homelessness defies deterministic solutions to housing and underscores the importance of non-market-based solutions for housing ... -
Promising Youth: Retroactive Cultural and Public Infrastructures in San Jerónimo
(2024-04-08)Youth delinquency in Asunción, Paraguay is a prevalent issue that stems from socioeconomic factors, a lack of public space, and a broken penal system. San Jerónimo is a neighbourhood in Asunción whose community deals with ... -
Pursuing Prefabrication: An Exploration of Building at McMurdo Station
(2021-04-08)While experimentation during the early 20th century pushed prefabrication by challenging off-site and on-site practices, it still struggles to establishes itself beyond novelty in contemporary building. The qualities of ... -
Re-imagining a Petrochemical Landscape in Dartmouth Nova Scotia
(2016-04-07)This thesis addresses the vast petrochemical landscape of the Imperial Oil Refinery situated within the urban context of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. The recent decommissioning of the refinery has reduced it to an arcane ... -
Reprogramming Sacred Monuments: Giving New Life to Stepwells in Gujarat, India
(2021-04-14)This research is based within historicism and its inherent practices to conserve obsolete and symbolic structures. Due to their sacred nature these types of structures are often preserved, remain untouched and left to ... -
Resettlement: Using Place-Based Architecture to Create Modern Agricultural Communities
(2020-04-30)Suburbanization has homogenized the development and organization of rural communities in North America and around the globe. By focusing primarily on providing automotive circulation characterized by low population density, ... -
Residual City: Decoupling Amenity from Capital through the Wedge
(2023-07-11)This thesis examines the crisis of amenity and public space in the contemporary city, wherein neoliberal policies placed the needs of citizens onto the free market while divesting in public spaces and services. Today ... -
RESOURCEFUL MATERIALS: A Critical Framework for Repurposing in Architecture – A Method of Material Resourcefulness and Diverting Waste from Landfills
(2017-04-27)This thesis is an investigation into the use of unconventional materials in architecture – ones not typically used as building materials: repurposed items. A framework is established for how to select items for repurposing ... -
Shifting Phenomena: Inhabiting Waterscape Infrastructure within the Annapolis River
(2022-04-11)Throughout human history, we have viewed ourselves as separate from the landscape. This attitude can be seen in the vast array of infrastructure that now marks and modifies the landscape, interrupting and shifting temporal ... -
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. ... -
Spatial Agency: Softening the Edges of the Architectural Apparatus
(2022-04-11)Our whole lives play out in the built environment, yet its production is left in the hands of just a few. Recognition of inherent issues in architectural culture is not something necessarily new, and neither are efforts ... -
Temporary City: Appropriation for Everyday Life in Hong Kong
(2020-04-14)This thesis challenges the pursuit of permanence in cities and sees temporary and tactical appropriation as opportunities to improve the everyday life of people in Hong Kong. In old districts of Hong Kong Island and ... -
Territory City
(2016-04-08)This thesis is an exploration into the power of socially constructed boundaries, both physical and psychological. Subject to interpretation, a single boundary can completely control one person’s actions while being unperceived ... -
Tottenham: Re[dis]covery. Architectural Intervention in a Post-Traumatic Urban Environment
(2016-08-22)Set in 2011 following the London riots, this thesis explores the way architectural design acts as a tool of societal recovery and a catalyst for creative change in a post-traumatic urban environment. Based on the assumption ...