Browsing by Subject "Urbanism"
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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 ... -
Building a Neighbourhood: Interpreting Montreal’s Plateau to Redefine Contemporary Mass Housing Typologies
(2013-04-09)After the industrial revolution, the increase in population of urban centres created a severe housing shortage. In North America there were two contrasting responses to house the masses, the urban tower and the garden city ... -
Desmos: Design, Inventiveness and Collaboration in a Time of Crisis
(2013-08-06)The modernist polykatikia typology (translating to multi-dwelling) arose in Athens after the population boom of the 1960s. Now sixty years later, the demands of the city have changed. No longer is there a need to build ... -
A META-GREEN A Dynamic Architecture Along the Banks of the Saint John River
Through the catalytic theory of cybernetics, this thesis proposes a local intervention within the vast network of synthetic and organic systems that span the watershed of the Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick, Canada. ...
