Browsing by Subject "Vancouver"
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Art in the City: A New Vancouver Art Gallery as a Means of Re-affirming Culture and Vitalizing the Urban Realm
(2011-04-11)This thesis explores the possibility that a well designed and situated urban art gallery might improve a problematic urban condition in Vancouver. The aim is to vitalize a neglected urban space, and connect the waterfront ... -
A Children's Library: Designing Spaces for Play and Imagination
(2013-12-10)Children’s understanding of space is a fusion of reality and fantasy, in which the physical environment, play, and imagination assume important roles. The boundary between the imaginative realm of the child and the physical ... -
City in Motion: Anchoring Vancouver’s Active Transit Network
(2022-04-19)This thesis examines Vancouver’s transportation networks and their impact on city-building to inform the design of an active mobility trailhead at the False Creek Flats. The proposal argues the social benefits of intersecting ... -
Cultural Competence in Mental Health Services: Learning from Client Experiences
(2015)Despite the introduction of cultural competence models in mental health services, individuals from marginalized backgrounds with severe mental health (dis)Abilities continue to face health and mental health inequities ... -
Design with Nature: Learning from Ecological Systems to Educate the Urban Dweller
(2013-04-05)Nature has an effective approach to cycling materials and energy flows to promote life. This thesis aims to expose urbanite users to nature’s way of cycling materials. The seawall is the largest public space in Vancouver ... -
Emergent Urbanism: A Framework for Responsive Connectivity in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats
(2014-04-04)The city remains one of humanity’s greatest challenges, demanding solutions to complex problems that arise from a network of interoperating systems at different scales. As urban centres densify across Canada, the dialogue ... -
Fractal: Refaçading the Suburb for the Modern Family through Modularity
(2022-04-13)Canadian cities and suburbs are littered with single-family residential housing that fails to meet the needs of modern families. The current housing model does not adequately support intergenerational living, user ... -
Grey Stations: New Strategies for Senior Housing in Vancouver, BC
(2014-04-04)This thesis proposes a strategy to capitalize on the abundance of derelict service stations in Vancouver, BC, as a means to address the current crisis of seniors’ housing and services. Vancouver’s glut of vacant service ... -
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 ... -
Nourished by Design: Public Architecture as Social Infrastructure
(2021-04-09)This thesis reimagines the role of public buildings in urban society arguing that their contemporary value comes not only from providing public services but also from being accessible places for socialization in the public ... -
"Out of Many Kindreds and Tongues": Racial Identity and Rights Activism in Vancouver, 1919-1939
(2011-05-02)This dissertation examines “race” politics in Vancouver during the interwar period as one origin of human rights activism. Race-based rights activism is a fundamental element of the modern human rights movement and human ... -
A Palimpsest Design Approach to Adaptive Reuse of Gas Stations
(2023-04-14)Buildings are designed for social demands, but social demands change faster than our buildings can adapt, leading to a repeating cycle of construction and demolition. This cycle causes not only negative environmental impacts ... -
Redefining Urban Water: Land Art Pavilions Along Vancouver’s Abandoned Olympic Line
(2024-04-15)In urban areas like Vancouver, high precipitation levels are often viewed as both excess and disposable. North American city infrastructures prioritize diverting water away from sight, presenting ongoing challenges for ... -
Urban Waterscapes: Water as Social Infrastructure in Vancouver, BC
(2014-08-22)Vancouver, BC is a rainy city surrounded by water. Climate change analysis predicts the city will begin to experience more frequent and intense rain as well as rising sea levels. If intensities increase, existing systems ... -
Vancouver’s Chinatown: Rebuilding a Community’s Identity
(2019-08-28)In the competition for space within developing cities, key cultural and social components within working class ethnic neighbourhoods are often found being transformed by outside market forces. In the newest iteration of ...