Browsing by Subject "Landscape"
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Accenting Edmonton’s River Valley - Methodologies of Color; Using Framework of Human-Environment Connections
(2017-04-07)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 Traces: Reconnecting Tidal Flows and Past Landscapes Through the Reuse of a Post-Industrial Textile Mill
(2019-08-22)This thesis investigates an adaptive reuse of a former textile mill, a post-industrial ruin built in 1884 in the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia. Natural tidal waters once acted as a means of distribution for the town and ... -
Aiding with Architecture: Exploring the Role of Collaborative Design in Healing and Empowering Northern Saskatchewan Communities
(2018-04-13)In northern Saskatchewan, colonialism has caused a disruption between people’s cultures and land, resulting in many social woes. This thesis aims to use architecture to aid in healing and empowering communities along the ... -
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 ... -
Constructing New Narratives to Reveal Diverse Identities in Richmond, BC
(2022-07-07)With the capitalist expansion of urban cities today, different physical and social forces exist, collaborate and challenge each other on the land we call home. In Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, where multi-ideologies ... -
Engaging Ecology Through Architecture: Reconnecting Bedford to its Bay
(2015)This thesis studies the relationship between the urban environment and ecosystem and the intersection between ecosystem and architectural project. While urban sites are commonly understood as separate and unique from their ... -
Engaging The Post-Industrial Frontier: Revealing the Inherent Nature of the Manufactured Landscape Through the Processes of its Reclamation
(2018-04-06)This thesis investigates the nature of horror and fascination experienced when confronted with manufactured landscapes. The inherent qualities found at these radically manipulated and altered places are often comparable ... -
Eternal Landscapes: A Reframing of Monuments in the Civic Cemetery
(2022-04-18)Secular demands on space are shifting Western funerary culture away from traditional individual memorials. New burial modes omit the gravestone, and ash spreading rituals detach the act of remembering from the body. While ... -
Frames + Fieldnotes: Existential Architectures for the Landscape of Climate Change
(2016-04-08)The transcendental experiences and perceptual insights evoked by good architecture are not merely qualitative outcomes. They form the elements of a way of measuring what is much larger than our selves. This thesis explores ... -
Framing the Forest: Restoring Nova Scotia's Hidden Landscapes of Extraction
(2022-04-12)Nova Scotia is home to vast areas of ecologically unique and sensitive Acadian forest, almost all of which has been cut down and regrown several times, damaging its integrity as habitat for wildlife and as economic and ... -
Gateway to the Northern Isles: Growing Tourism in Shetland Through the Lenses of Landscape
(2018-04-06)This thesis identifies and seeks to utilize the inherent potential in the Shetland Islands for sustainably growing the tourism industry. It proposes the development of an architecture for observation as a means of reshaping ... -
Generative Morphology: Establishing Relief Networks in the Dynamic Taklamakan Desert
(2013-07-30)Desertification, the deterioration of productive and fertile lands into barren and desolate deserts, usually occurs as a result of deforestation, drought, or improper planting and agriculture. This thesis investigates ways ... -
Impacts of farming systems on landscape heterogeneity in Southern Saskatchewan cropland
(2022-04-13)Organic farms have been recognized to have higher biodiversity than conventional farms, but it is unclear if organic farms are conserving more perennial habitat in their fields than conventional farms under large scale ... -
Incubating Creativity: Amplifying an Emerging Art Culture
(2018-07-31)At the heart of Moncton, New Brunswick lies an iconic building. The former Moncton High School is a place full of shared memories, history, and architectural character; however, it has laid dormant since it’s abandonment ... -
Infrastructural Landscapes: Integrating Renewable Energy with Landscape and Community in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
(2018-07-31)The Bay of Fundy is home to the highest tides in the world and among the strongest currents. The Minas Passage is a narrow body of water in the upper Bay of Fundy with a 13-metre tidal range and water speeds of 7-8 knots, ... -
Inhabiting Flow: Strategies for Tourist Oriented Architecture in Volatile Icelandic Landscapes
(2019-08-16)The volatile terrain in Iceland, a landscape of perpetual flux in the space of places, flows and time, demands building methods which are empathetic to its unwieldy behaviour. An inundation of tourists over the past decade ... -
Inhabiting Manufactured Landscape: An Architectural Approach to Minnesota’s Post-Industrial Iron Range
(2020-08-26)Surface mining has created manufactured landscapes all over the world. While often viewed in a negative light as ‘scars on the land,’ they are a tangible imprint of humanity’s action on the landscape. Through the lens ... -
LANDSCAPE DISCOURSES OF AMENITY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN VITICULTURE REGIONS IN CANADA
(2021-12-17)Shifts from fossil fuels toward renewable energy (RE) are happening worldwide. Although RE contributes to global warming, this shift introduces profound changes to landscapes. Moreover, RE transitions are often happening ... -
LOCATING SHAMBHALA: A PILGRIMAGE COMPLEX FOR KALAPA VALLEY IN THE HIGHLANDS OF CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA
(2015-04-06)This thesis explores the relationship between landscape, sacred space and dwelling in the non-theistic spiritual tradition of Shambhala. Through the design of a pilgrimage complex for Kalapa Valley in the Cape Breton ... -
Memories of Home: An Emotional Landscape for Elderly Care
(2024-04-10)Institutional healthcare models are failing Canada’s elderly. A long culture of agism has led to the creation of sterile, visually dominant, and commodified architectural environments that lack the emotional and social ...