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The Prison Landscape: Redefining Built Form to Support Rehabilitation
(2020-08-19)
Correctional institutions of Correctional Services Canada have been developed to maximize efficiency in security, control, circulation, cost, and use of resources. Often this utilitarian and functionalist approach fails ...
Natural [Re]connection: Facilitating the Development of Preschool Children Through Nature Rich Environments
(2020-04-14)
Humans have an instinctive attraction to the living world and growing research suggests that interactions with nature makes us healthier and happier. Early childhood development theories demonstrates that it is essential ...
Synthetic Space (and the Architecture of Play)
(2020-08-10)
This thesis is about the kinetic relationship between body and space. It attempts to read the world as a continuous experience rooted in bodily sensation and investigates relationships between human bodies in the conception, ...
Connecting the Storied Landscape of the Shubenacadie
(2020-08-19)
For more than 100 years, the Shubenacadie has been forgotten by the collective consciousness of many Nova Scotians.
This thesis examines the cultural practices of the Mi’kmaq, the Acadians, and the British as they engaged ...
An Arborist's Approach to Building Regeneration: Planting Trees in Obsolescent Soil
(2020-07-16)
Given the environmental impact of utilizing non renewable resources in the open loop carbon cycle of build-use-demolish, it is imperative to effect a fundamental change in how the urban landscape is developed.
This thesis ...
You are Welcome: Immigrant Integration through the Courtyard Typology
(2020-08-04)
This thesis addresses the architectural and social issues of immigrant populations relocating to foreign lands. The primary factor of immigrant integration is the availability of appropriate housing. Immigrant housing must ...
In the Wake of Industry: Reprogramming the Halifax Grain Elevator
(2020-08-19)
Industrial structures in urban areas often have a contested relationship with humans because of their imposition on the landscape. With many industries now in decline, deindustrialization presents an opportunity to adapt ...
Critical Care: Farming and Building as if the Earth Mattered
(2021-07-09)
Such is the critical condition of our earth that reuniting building and farming is an urgently needed form of care for planetary well-being and survival. Lessons from utopias, communes, and nature are used in this thesis ...
Imprints of the Everyday: Architecture for Incremental Interventions
(2021-08-19)
Urban erasure, as a result of tabula rasa redevelopments and the privatization of public spaces within London, are wiping out the idiosyncratic imprints of the city’s inhabitants. Through unfolding the power of ephemeral ...
Monuments of the Kettle Valley Railway: Reviving a Network within Extreme Landscapes
(2020-04-14)
This thesis examines the abandoned Kettle Valley Railway which extends 600 kilometres across the extreme topography of southern British Columbia, Canada. The Kettle Valley Railway is recognized as the most challenging ...