Browsing by Subject "adaptive reuse"
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Athletes' Village: The Adaptive Reuse of Rexall Place
(2012-04-03)Currently very few retired venues are reused and most are torn down to make room for new development. Of the venues that are reused, they are either converted into housing projects or mixed use commercial buildings. My ... -
City in Motion: Anchoring Vancouver’s Active Transit Network
(2022-04-19)This thesis examines Vancouver’s transportation networks and their impact on city-building to inform the design of an active mobility trailhead at the False Creek Flats. The proposal argues the social benefits of intersecting ... -
Community Pillars: The Grain Elevator as Active Monument
(2023-04-11)Rural life promotes community and resilience, but also isolation necessitating commonality among generations. True memory in sharing skills and traditions, incentivises gathering. The wooden grain elevator in Whitewood, ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A New Spiritual Space Using Psychogeographic Methods
(2019-08-09)A shrinking number of people are attending religious services in comparison to the growing proportion of people who claim a spiritual aspect to their lives. The divergence of spirituality and religion has left a gap in the ... -
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 ... -
Regrowing Community by Reappropriating Built History: Adaptive Reuse of the Hahne's Department Store in Newark, NJ.
(2011-04-12)Newark, New Jersey has endured large scale depopulation from 1930 through to 2000. Today the urban core of this city suffers from great social and cultural segregation between residents and daytime visiting populations ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Why Architecture: The Intersection of Architectural Education and the City
(2018-07-31)This thesis questions the potential relationship between a school of architecture and the public. Redefining the role of architecture education as advocacy for better designed cities, a new dialogue between the public ...
