Browsing by Subject "Place"
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Bridging Worlds: Visible and Invisible Continuities in Architecture
(2020-04-14)Is architecture a bridge? The position taken in this thesis operates on the premise that architecture is not only a bridge but a construct of infinite bridges, real and imagined, the degree to which determines architecture's ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
It’s Five O’Clock on a Farm: Deriving Architecture from Agriculture on an Annapolis Valley Winery
(2022-04-12)Wine regions around the world lack authenticity. Authentic and healthy farming practices are abandoned and replaced with a monocrop approach, solely focusing on yields, destroying natural ecosystems. Narratives are relied ... -
Liminal Communities: An Infrastructure for Identity and Belonging in Planned Resource Towns
(2018-07-31)Following the economic crisis of 2008, residents of Mackenzie, a remote forestry town in British Columbia, watched as all six local mills closed – putting their economy on pause and forcing nearly a quarter of residents ... -
Mobilizing Creative Entrepreneurship: The Design of a Cultural Infrastructure on the Halifax Waterfront
(2014-04-03)Rising commercial rents in downtown Halifax combined with a freeze on federal arts funding are forcing artists to leave the city in search of affordable and accessible workspace. Essential to the cultural and economic ... -
Procession in Process: Finding Place in Fruit Breeding
(2014-04-03)The modern disconnect between agricultural producers and consumers in Canada is a result of an increasingly smaller percentage of society taking part in the ‘making’ of food. Fruit breeding —the practice of selectively ... -
Site Specific Regionalism
(2015)As architecture continues towards a globalized practice, the increasingly standardized approach to building has resulted in an inflation of architecture with minimal sense of place. These designs often impose upon their ...
