Browsing by Subject "Adaptive Reuse"
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Activating the Edge: Revitalizing the Downtown through the Adaptive Reuse of Front Street Parkade in New Westminster, British Columbia
(2016-04-06)This architectural thesis seeks to examine how the adaptive reuse of an inactive parkade through the creation of a hub for an active lifestyle can facilitate the revitalization of downtown New Westminster, BC. The proposal ... -
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 ... -
Adapting to the Island: the Architectural Reuse of a once active British Naval Facility for Bermuda
(2011-04-08)This thesis explores the possibilities of adaptively reusing an existing site to provide new services and work spaces for the local artistic community within a once heavily used Brit- ish naval ship building and repair ... -
Au-delà des murs: Bridging the Edge between the Living City and the Preserved City
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ... -
Back to the Future: New Metabolisms for Declining Urban Towers
(2016-08-26)As the number of residential towers increases with the growth of modern cities, we are faced with the question of how to handle the older towers that, little by little, no longer attract renters for their apartments. Is ... -
Building Community in Sacred Space: A Method for Adaptive Reuse of Deconsecrated Catholic Churches in Millbank, New Brunswick
(2022-04-11)In an increasingly changeable and defamiliarized society, where attendance at religious services has decreased, many religious buildings are falling into disuse and disrepair. By using sacred qualities of architecture to ... -
Buildings that Sing: Architectural Design for Choral Performance
(2023-07-14)Architecture filters sound, and therefore music. The design of concert halls favours a specific quality and experience of musical sound. Choral church music, which adapted to profit musically from the acoustics and spaces ... -
City Within A City: Revitalization Through Connectivity
(2016-04-08)This thesis seeks to revitalize the soon-to-be vacated, iconic Molson Brewery in Montreal. In many instances, the development of the Molson Brewery mirrors that of its urban context. Occupying a footprint roughly equivalent ... -
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 ... -
Ephemeral Architecture: A Catalyst for Urban Renewal
(2019-04-05)This thesis considers ephemeral architecture as a tool to integrate former industrial structures with their surrounding urban context. Buildings and infrastructure are subject to fluctuations in use and occasionally of ... -
Incubating Creativity: Amplifying an Emerging Art Culture
(2018-07-31)At the heart of Moncton, New Brunswick lies an iconic building. The former Moncton High School is a place full of shared memories, history, and architectural character; however, it has laid dormant since it’s abandonment ... -
Industrial Organicism: A New Organic Architecture to Grow the Post-Industrial Prairie Landscape
(2017-08-31)Building from the legacy and theoretical frameworks of organicism, this thesis is an investigation towards the development of true living architecture, a constructed biology existing as a function of its dynamic environment ... -
Integrating Infrastructure: Post-Traffic Viaducts as Community Connectors
(2021-07-22)In many Canadian cities, over-built and under-used road infrastructures from the ‘Urban Renewal’ era exist adjacent to their city centres. In Vancouver, plans for their removal and site re-design strategies are already ... -
Kootenay Muster: Regenerating a Memory of Production in the Precarious Landscape of Nelson, British Columbia
(2021-07-09)Interior British Columbian communities exist in precarious conditions considering their landscape and formalizing industries. Community abandonment is common with the instability of resource extraction leaving industrial ... -
The Living Yard: Re-Making the Public Square for Community Identity
(2019-08-22)How do we design and develop in urban areas where we are witnessing the social impacts of gentrification? Through adaptive reuse, this thesis will investigate issues of the gentrification process in the North End of Halifax, ... -
Maintaining the Character of a Place: Critical Approaches to Built Heritage in Newfoundland
(2018-07-31)Newfoundland has an evolving and dynamic culture of repairing, maintaining, and adapting buildings as their function changes. This thesis highlights the pluralist viewpoint of Bonavista and its capacity to absorb many ... -
MONUMENT IN THE VALLEY: AN ADAPTIVE REUSE STRATEGY FOR THE NOVA SCOTIA TEXTILES LIMITED MILL OF WINDSOR, NOVA SCOTIA
(2013-12-09)This thesis addresses the revitalization of the former Nova Scotia Textiles Limited mill in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. Windsor is a small town that lies along the confluence of the Avon and St. Croix River shores, off ... -
On the Right Track: Reinterpreting the Abandoned Railway In the Arbutus Corridor With Mobile Architecture
(2015-04-06)This thesis proposes a mobile architecture that moves along an abandoned rail system in Vancouver to provide its neighbouring areas with improved access to amenities and to provide a sense of uniqueness to the Arbutus ... -
A Palimpsest Design Approach to Adaptive Reuse of Gas Stations
(2023-04-14)Buildings are designed for social demands, but social demands change faster than our buildings can adapt, leading to a repeating cycle of construction and demolition. This cycle causes not only negative environmental impacts ... -
Preserving the Intangible Qualities of a Building Culture: A Case Study in Windsor, N.S.
(2015)The land-based infrastructure of the Nova Scotian boat building culture is studied in this thesis to explore how the intangible qualities of a building culture can be understood through architectural ideas. The study finds ...
