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INDUSTRIAL ORGANICISM: Evolving the Cultural Landscape of the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia through Community Owned Renewable Energy
(2016-04-07)
My thesis explores the evolution and ongoing cultural relevance of the unique Minas Basin landscape located along the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. The tides of the Bay of Fundy, the highest in the world with a twice daily ...
Main Street is Dead, Long Live Main Street
(2016-04-08)
Deindustrialization is a phenomenon apparent in many countries across the world, but while the majority of the revitalization focus has been on large metropolitan cities, little consideration has been taken into account ...
Type Nouveau: A Typological Approach to Modern Suburbia
(2016-04-08)
Developed in the early part of the 20th century, prevalent in North America in the 1950s - 80s, the suburb as we know it is no longer relevant — particularly within the mid-urban condition. Rising housing costs, lack of ...
Time, Space and Adaptation: A Strategy Towards Growth From Within
(2016-04-11)
To adapt is to transform to become better suited to the conditions of an environment. Through expressing a narrative of adaptation in architecture we can evoke both cultural continuity and the potential for change through ...
FUNchitecture: Play as Essential Public Urban Infrastructure
(2016-04-08)
This thesis stresses the importance of social infrastructure in urban environments and proposes that a play infrastructure is an equally essential function to the city as access to water. As play is established as a ...
Re-Settling Dawson Park: An Expanded Idea of the Friendship Centre in Edmonton, Alberta
(2016-04-08)
This thesis intends to expand on the idea of the friendship centre, embodying its original and current purpose - a middle ground between the city and indigenous culture. This middle ground will acknowledge damaging history, ...
Building for the Network Society: Spaces of Information in a Newly Connected Havana
(2016-04-11)
Since the Embargo of 1962, Cuba’s information infrastructure has been frozen. While other countries switched from copper wire to fiber-optic cables linking to a globally connected network -- the Internet -- Cuba remained ...
Seniors on the Move: Integrating Our Elderly Into the Heart of Community
(2016-04-07)
This thesis addresses society’s stance regarding the position our seniors hold within our Canadian communities. Given the predicted rise of the senior population, this thesis will focus on the province that will be hardest ...
A New 'Parkitecture': Re-Imagining the Interpretive Centre as an Interactive Route in Algonquin Provincial Park
(2016-04-08)
This thesis addresses the anthropocentric history of wilderness parks in Canada. It investigates architecture in actively interpreting the cultural layers inherent of these landscapes while promoting recreational tourism. ...
Articulating Ecology: Brownfield Remediation, Urban Agriculture and Prospects for Community Revitalization
(2015)
2015 has been declared the International Year of Soils by the United Nations. This proclamation emphasizes the soil as a basis for life and culture, its importance for agriculture, and its fragility when threatened by ...