Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 93
Art Gallery as Bridge Between Port Industry and City
(2021-07-26)
For centuries port industry has played a vital role in Halifax, occupying the majority of its waterfront. As shipping developed, ports moved to specialized suburban areas, allowing cities to redevelop their urban waterfront. ...
Remedial Tourism: Cultivating Rural Sustainability Through Community Directed Industry
(2021-08-09)
This thesis originated as a response to the persisting collapse of various industries across
the Island of Newfoundland, and its impact on rural communities. Given the ongoing threat
of resettlement, many outport areas ...
Party Wall Housing: Objects in Environments as Contestation
(2020-04-14)
The front line of architecture is the housing crisis, but is also a crisis of how we live. The home is where structural principles of society are created and reinforced. The city has become an all-encompassing domestic ...
"MY vs THEIR World": "OUR World" Learning Network for Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2020-08-28)
People with Autism Spectrum Disorder are not properly accommodated in the built environment, societal daily life, and medical services. Autism is a behaviourally defined disorder based on impairments in social-emotional ...
Instrumental Architecture: Investigating the Live Music Venue as a Process of Gathering along the Halifax Waterfront
(2020-04-13)
This thesis aims to connect live music, people, and place in Halifax by approaching the live music venue as a process of gathering. This strategy builds upon Christopher Small’s concept of ‘Musicking’ by approaching the ...
Event Stations: A New Narrative for Declining Gas Stations
(2020-08-10)
This thesis examines the abandonment and potential of gas stations in Windsor, Ontario.
As ubiquitous structures of the urban roadside, gas stations became an important piece
of infrastructure for the city and the ...
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 ...