Browsing by Subject "Architecture"
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Accenting Edmonton’s River Valley - Methodologies of Color; Using Framework of Human-Environment Connections
West Rossdale and its river banks are the core cultural aspect of Edmonton. Its potential is portrayed through ‘River Crossing”, the one place where city and river meet. The thesis aims to explore the physical and cultural ... -
Activating the Vertical City: Catalyzing Ascent + Connectivity within the Delaminated Domains
Responding to isolation and the repetitive nature that high-rise buildings typically evoke, Activating the Vertical City seeks to respond to the lost sense of place that exists within vertical environments. It proposes ... -
The Adaptation of a Thunder Bay Grain Elevator
(2011-04-08)This thesis is an exploration of spatial possibilities within a concrete terminal grain elevator in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Informed by research into the history, function, and construction of grain elevators, this ... -
Adapting to the Island: the Architectural Reuse of a once active British Naval Facility for Bermuda
(2011-04-08)This thesis explores the possibilities of adaptively reusing an existing site to provide new services and work spaces for the local artistic community within a once heavily used Brit- ish naval ship building and repair ... -
ADAPTIVE SCHOOLS: EXPLORING HOW DESIGNING FOR DISASSEMBLY CAN EXTEND THE LIFESPAN OF MATERIALS AND BE APPLIED TO THE FLUCTUATING REQUIREMENTS OF TEACHING FACILITIES
This thesis investigates how designing with disassembly in mind will extend the lifespan of materials and decrease the environmental impact of construction. The most suitable programs to test this concept involve projects ... -
Added Value: Pursuing Architecture that Promotes Social Prosperity & Encourages Economic Interest
(2014-08-21)Architects are arguably the most qualified to shape our cities and communities since they study and design our built environments. However, many of their ideas will never be proposed because clients, who are the real drivers ... -
Against the Current: Redefining Relationships Within Salmon Ecosystems
How cultures view nature and the environment shape how we dwell within the environment. When examining wild salmon and their habitat along the Fraser River watershed it is clear that these perceptions have had a detrimental ... -
Alternative Reality: The Monument, the Megastructure and the Luxury Hotel
(2015-04-22)This thesis inherits the infrastructure of Lower Manhattan’s Exit 2, where the Brooklyn Bridge and elevated FDR highway intersect. A recent proposal for a nearby ultra-exclusive luxury hotel is controversial. The site faces ... -
The Archescape : Seeking the Way Out from Within
This thesis investigates the archescape (Wallis de Vries, 2014) within the historical center of Rome. The term refers to the point of intersection where architecture meets escape. The primal need for escape from the city’s ... -
Architecture and Typography: The Space Beyond the Text
(2011-04-15)This thesis considers the design of a combined industrial printing and publishing house as a semi-public institution. The site is in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The institution includes a bookstore, archive, studio, book ... -
Architecture as Power: Dynamics of Spatial Configuration
This thesis investigates the concept of power in architecture. The system of ‘Space Syntax’ is utilized to describe the configurational properties of spatial networks for an understanding of spatial political economy—how ... -
Architecture as Weaving: How Can Architecture Contribute to the Learning of Mi'kmaq Knowledge at Dalhousie University
(2014-04-04)This architectural thesis proposes a Mi’kmaq Learning Centre on the Dalhousie University Campus in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Indigenous-led and Indigenous minded content in the post secondary environment creates space for ... -
The Architecture of Gender and Health: A Holistic Life-Cycle Based Approach to Women’s Reproductive Health in Moncton, New Brunswick
This thesis investigates the role of architecture in women’s health. The proposal consists of a facility in downtown Moncton, New Brunswick that provides reproductive and health services in both on-site and outreach ... -
Articulating Ecology: Brownfield Remediation, Urban Agriculture and Prospects for Community Revitalization
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 ... -
Au-delà des murs: Bridging the Edge between the Living City and the Preserved City
This thesis investigates how the bureaucracies of heritage designation such as UNESCO create havens for tourists rather than encourage the continuous inhabitation of historic cities. With the mission of preserving culture, ... -
Backyard Densification: Resectioning Urban Residential Lots
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, ... -
Between Inside and Outside: Expanding Environmental Context Through Building Systems
(2015-04-06)This thesis explores how architecture can expand the conceived notion of enclosure to a greater environmental context, and how a building may become an instrument for experience and engagement across the interior/exterior ... -
Bilbao Re-Effect: Container + Contents + Context Architectural Strategies for the 21st Century Art Museum
Throughout the history of art museums and galleries, the container, its contents, and the surrounding context, have retained a tuneful relationship; yet, in 20th century we witness a major shift, with the container taking ... -
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Performance Spaces as Catalyst for Community Revitalization.
(2014-04-04)This thesis investigates how “performance” can enhance the urban fabric of Dartmouth NS, and assist in the revitalization of the area, creating a “new community image”. In past decades Dartmouth has struggled to maintain ...
