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Drawing from the Past: The Role of Architecture and Art in Embodying the Everyday Lives of People and Places
(2020-04-23)
This thesis focuses on the analysis and interpretation of realist painter, Alex Colville and the relation of techniques used in architecture and art for representing and emobodying the everyday lives of people and places. ...
Temporary City: Appropriation for Everyday Life in Hong Kong
(2020-04-14)
This thesis challenges the pursuit of permanence in cities and sees temporary and tactical appropriation as opportunities to improve the everyday life of people in Hong Kong.
In old districts of Hong Kong Island and ...
Resettlement: Using Place-Based Architecture to Create Modern Agricultural Communities
(2020-04-30)
Suburbanization has homogenized the development and organization of rural communities in North America and around the globe. By focusing primarily on providing automotive circulation characterized by low population density, ...
Nourished by Design: Public Architecture as Social Infrastructure
(2021-04-09)
This thesis reimagines the role of public buildings in urban society arguing that their contemporary value comes not only from providing public services but also from being accessible places for socialization in the public ...
Pursuing Prefabrication: An Exploration of Building at McMurdo Station
(2021-04-08)
While experimentation during the early 20th century pushed prefabrication by challenging off-site and on-site practices, it still struggles to establishes itself beyond novelty in contemporary building. The qualities of ...
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 ...
Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland
(2021-04-09)
Body, House, Landscape: Re-Constructing Memory in Post-Resettled Newfoundland investigates collective memory in rural Newfoundland and the act of the Newfoundland Resettlement Program. The Newfoundland Resettlement, a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spatial Agency: Softening the Edges of the Architectural Apparatus
(2022-04-11)
Our whole lives play out in the built environment, yet its production is left in the hands of just a few. Recognition of inherent issues in architectural culture is not something necessarily new, and neither are efforts ...