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Maintaining the Character of a Place: Critical Approaches to Built Heritage in Newfoundland
(2018-07-31)
Newfoundland has an evolving and dynamic culture of repairing, maintaining, and adapting buildings as their function changes. This thesis highlights the pluralist viewpoint of Bonavista and its capacity to absorb many ...
TIDAL TOWN: REACTIVATING A TOWN'S CONNECTION TO THE WATERFRONT THROUGH INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC PROGRAM
(2018-07-31)
This thesis examines the potential for the adaptive reuse of post-industrial infrastructure located in or near rural towns. Many of these towns experience diminished industry and are directly affected, both socially and ...
Light as a Narrative of Place: Examining the Human Experience of Daylight in Public Buildings in Northern Cities
(2018-04-06)
This thesis will explore how architecture and daylight can be used as a narrative to create a human experience reflective of place. This will be explored through public buildings in large metropolitan cities in Nordic ...
Spaces in Transition: Making Room for Junctures in Hong Kong
(2017-04-07)
This thesis addresses the scarcity of civic spaces in Hong Kong by proposing impermanent interventions to meet city events’ demands. There are two cyclical events that contribute to a unique city character, the democratic ...
Backyard Densification: Resectioning Urban Residential Lots
(2017-08-09)
City densification techniques have become stagnant. Suburban land use needed to be revisited and a resectioning of lots implemented. This thesis investigates the typical characteristics of the suburban city lands, ...
Edible Ecologies : An Architecture for the Social Life of Food
(2017-08-10)
People have become disconnected from the producing, preparing, sharing, and celebrating of food that is such a fundamental element of identity and culture.
The global industrial food system has reduced the social ...
Levels of Green: Landscape Housing in the City
(2017-08-21)
In today’s housing market, housing quality and affordability are hard to come by. Poor quality, both economic and social, are factors leading to the demise of urban housing. While prefab systems provide a better building ...
Healing Aquascapes
(2017-05-02)
The Healing Aquascape is a strategy to remediate the Burrard Inlet of southern BC and recover the waterway as an integral site in the development of the cultural landscape. As the ecology of the inlet is impoverished by ...
Design Principles of Inclusion for Public Schools
(2017-04-10)
Including children with disabilities in the public classroom is morally right; yet in the absence of appropriate support, it often results in a learning environment that is morally wrong. This thesis studies how to ...
Rooms in the Landscape: An Exploration into Building Process and Experiential Qualities of the Extreme, Remote Landscape of Nahanni National Park Reserve
(2017-04-07)
Architecture and wilderness are two distinct experiences that may seem an unlikely union, however, is there a way that these spaces, the natural and the architectural, can synthesize to enhance one’s experience of a specific ...