Browsing by Subject "Infrastructure"
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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 ... -
Architecture for New Energy Futures: Community and Infrastructure in a Post-Coal World
(2023-07-20)For the past 300 years, the coal mining industry has fundamentally shaped the landscapes and communities of Cape Breton, which hosts the majority of Nova Scotia’s fossil fuel infrastructure. This thesis mobilizes Cape ... -
Bridge as Anchor: Connecting Neighbourhoods, the City, and the Ravine in Toronto’s Rosedale Valley
(2018-07-31)Toronto is a city characterized by the rich dichotomy between its urban fabric and the natural environment which shaped the city. Ravines are a primary contributor of open space, and a source of social and urban infrastructure ... -
Coastline as Commons: Using Spatial Devices to Link Littoral Temporalities
(2021-08-12)This thesis argues that architectural interventions can extend the water commons to the fluctuating littoral zone of Kjipuktuk/Halifax Harbour. The present composition of the Harbour as a working waterway favours a colonial ... -
Electric Space: A New Narrative for Aging Hydroelectric Facilities in B.C.
(2017-04-11)This thesis addresses the hydroelectric structures of the Buntzen Generating Station located within a restricted area of Indian Arm Provincial Park in British Colombia, Canada. Situated between ocean and mountain, the ... -
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 ... -
Hive Mind: The City in the Age of the Autonomous Automobile
(2019-08-22)The adoption of autonomous vehicles and the integration of an internet-based general purpose technology platform into urban environments will catalyze the formation of a new system of automobility in the 21st century, ... -
[IN]formal: Infrastructure and Citizenship in Manila's Undercity
(2015-04-08)The influx of rural migrants to urban centres in the developing world has resulted in a dichotomous urbanization and the proliferation of informal settlements. Manila, the capital of the Philippines, is no stranger to ... -
Infrastructural Landscape as Praxis: Technical Artifact Adaptations in Alberta’s Eastern Irrigation District
(2024-08-27)Debates surrounding the continued development of Irrigation infrastructure within Southern Alberta’s Eastern Irrigation District focus on technological approaches to reducing water consumption by irrigation agriculture ... -
Integrating Infrastructure: Post-Traffic Viaducts as Community Connectors
(2021-07-22)In many Canadian cities, over-built and under-used road infrastructures from the ‘Urban Renewal’ era exist adjacent to their city centres. In Vancouver, plans for their removal and site re-design strategies are already ... -
Mapping Possibilities for Conviviality: Inclusive Dialogues to Revitalize Calgary's Heart
(2023-07-13)This thesis serves as a framework for the re-imagination of urban infrastructure. Calgary’s Canadian Pacific rail corridor is the study site, bisecting the downtown and creating exclusionary space in the city’s heart. The ... -
A New Water Infrastructure Paradigm for the Arid City of Kerman, Iran
(2015)This thesis investigates ancient methods of water storage, delivery, access and treatment that have formed the basis of traditional Persian settlements and culture. These methods are contrasted with modern techniques and ... -
Occupying the Threshold: Voids as Opportunities
(2016-04-08)Cities begin as vast vacant land; when physical form is inserted a void is created. Infrastructure is the foundation that enables the growth, mobility and exchange of cities and their inhabitants. As these infrastructures ... -
Playing on the Tracks: Rethinking Transit Infrastructure as Event Space to Generate a City of Culture and Play
(2018-07-31)This thesis investigates the potential of a combination between event spaces and transit infrastructure. The project explores the city of Edmonton, Alberta, and a new typology of infrastructure called transit oriented ... -
Re-interpreting and Re-programming the Edge: Site, Infrastructure and Community
(2012-08-10)Landscapes are formed across space and over time by both natural processes and human artifice. Within urban landscapes, natural processes have been harnessed as the basis for infrastructural systems, which support urban ... -
Reactivating the Derelict: Developing an Architectural Framework for Social Interaction through the Analysis of Berlin’s Diverse Physical History and Cultural Character
(2012-04-05)The post-war development of reunified Germany has resulted in many physical, economic, social and cultural changes. Despite the end of many restrictions imposed upon its populace during the Cold War, change would become ... -
Reclaiming Porosity: A Multi-Layered Scalar Approach to Retrofitting Infrastructure, Public Space, and Thresholds in Flood-prone Bangkok
(2018-07-31)For centuries, the Thai have adapted to live with water by altering the landscape and modifying building methods. With increased climate change and urbanization, infrastructures must be reconsidered to handle the growing ... -
The River is the Solution: Infrastructure of Dwelling in Calgary’s Urban Landscape
(2017-08-30)This thesis explores the architectural implications of flooding through the lens of landscape urbanism. Developing a critical understanding of ecological discourse, I consider dualism as the underlying cause of climate ... -
Stitching the Divide: Reconnecting the Segregated Neighbourhood of Red Hook Back Into the City Fabric of Brooklyn, New York City
(2019-08-23)Red Hook, Brooklyn, is a neighbourhood characterized by the urban disconnection and urban decay caused by the Gowanus Expressway and Hamilton Avenue expansion. During the 20th century, federally funded highway expansion ... -
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 ...