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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 ...
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 ...
Architecture for Community Support and Urban Agriculture
(2023-04-12)
Food insecurity has become a significant global challenge as food systems are controlled by large scale food retailers and supermarkets that distance the consumer from local fresh food. Alongside this model, a bottom-up ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Alternative to Sprawl: Downtown Densification in Orillia, Ontario
(2023-07-19)
Towns in southern Ontario, Canada, have experienced many changes since the mid-20th century due to urban sprawl around them. Residential suburbs with cul-de-sacs and big box stores have prioritized cars and drivers, while ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...