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Spiritual Infrastructure: Stitching a New Building Typology into the City to Serve our Spirituality
(2014-08-08)
This thesis is about the exploration of a new building type that is missing from society today. The introduction of spiritual infrastructure aims to meet each individuals spiritual needs through a series of new public ...
Life Course Community: A Senior-centric Approach to an Inclusive Urban Development
(2019-08-02)
This thesis challenges society’s current attitude towards aging by proposing a senior-centric approach to community design – a Life Course Community. This planning strategy supports people so they may age-in-place and ...
Against the Current: Redefining Relationships Within Salmon Ecosystems
(2018-04-06)
How cultures view nature and the environment shape how we dwell within the environment. When examining wild salmon and their habitat along the Fraser River watershed it is clear that these perceptions have had a detrimental ...
Shelter to Gather: A Primitive Future for Resilient Cities in Post-earthquake Urban Environments
(2016-04-07)
This thesis focuses on creating a strategic process for addressing the devastation of communities in the aftermath of earthquakes. In Christchurch, New Zealand the site of this thesis, buildings and infrastructure were ...
NU Healing: Empowering the Margin(alized)
(2015)
The correctional system in Nunavut ignores the systemic social dysfunction underlying criminality in the Territory that has been the result of several generations of social and cultural displacement. As a physical manifestation ...
Two-Eyed Seeing and Architecture: Restoring Reciprocal Relationships through Design
(2022-08-10)
As a Western society we have lost our sense of the rhythms of the natural world and how we fit into these regenerative cycles, which has contributed to the increasing destruction of our planet. This thesis advocates for ...
My House is Your House: Toward a New Composition of Living and Working in the City
(2023-07-19)
This thesis investigates the housing accommodation that combines living with working, commonly referred to today as “live/work.” Expanding on the notion of living and working beyond its literal interpretation as live/work, ...
Ka Cokere (The Meeting Place): Apac’s future rooted in tekwaro (cultural norms and beliefs)
(2024-04-05)
In Uganda, Lango culture is endangered owing to its limited study, and reliance on oral traditions, under threat from declining older populations. Preserving and incorporating local knowledge is necessary to provide direction ...
Engaging Buildings: Crafting Interventions for a Changing Environment
(2024-07-31)
This thesis explores how human-scale interventions and craftsmanship can be critical components of a built environment for agency and expression through change and adaptation of space. By implementing spatial interventions ...