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Emergent Urbanism: A Framework for Responsive Connectivity in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats
(2014-04-04)
The city remains one of humanity’s greatest challenges, demanding solutions to complex problems that arise from a network of interoperating systems at different scales. As urban centres densify across Canada, the dialogue ...
A Model for Public Agrarian Architecture on the Suburban Edge
(2014-04-04)
The thesis project is a study for the integration of farming, urban use, and ecology at the edge of the city. The aims of the test-of-principle are to connect the urban consumer with the rural food producer, processing and ...
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) ...
HOW CAN THE RE-DESIGN OF A RIVERSIDE SITE RECONCILE AN OLD URBAN FABRIC AND NEW COMMUNITY? THE ADAPTIVE REUSE OF URBAN RIVERSIDE SITE IN HONGKOU DISTRICT, CITY OF SHANGHAI
(2014-04-04)
For hundreds of years, the riverside area of Shanghai was one of the city's most vibrant
places, making it an important part of Shanghai’s history. By following the story of the rivers, the life and culture of Shanghai's ...
Building ecoSystems Integration: An Approach to Building with Nature
(2014-08-25)
This thesis investigates the relationship between architecture and nature and is positioned with the understanding that human beings are not separate from nature and therefore, our processes of design and construction are ...
Inhabiting the Threshold: Housing and Public-Private Interface at Halifax’s St. Patrick’s-Alexandra School
(2014-04-04)
A public-private interface is a dynamic threshold between the private residence and the public city. It can be critically examined in terms of social scales, defensibility and ownership of space.
As cities densify, they ...
ARCHITECTURE FOR LIVING WITH DYING AND DEATH: THE DESIGN OF A HOSPICE AND FUNERARY COMPLEX IN HALIFAX, NS
(2014-08-06)
Since 1900, Western culture has distanced itself from death and now depends on funeral
homes to manage the care of the dead. Today, Western families have little interaction
with the deceased in the interval between death ...