dc.contributor.author | Butler, Shawn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-26T17:51:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-26T17:51:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-08-26T17:51:43Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/72122 | |
dc.description.abstract | As the number of residential towers increases with the growth of modern cities, we are faced
with the question of how to handle the older towers that, little by little, no longer attract
renters for their apartments. Is their decline unavoidable, or like many other building types,
do they have the capacity for a second life? In this project, I look at the history of residential
towers, how they go from exemplifying an ideal urban lifestyle to becoming obsolete urban
ruins. Looking at Halifax’s Fenwick Place in particular, I examine how a building that was
designed to express an idealistic future through its brutalist idiom is now widely considered
an architectural crime against humanity. To address this question, I draw upon ideas from
the Metabolist movement, adapting concepts such as groupform, linkage, and megaform to
twenty-fi rst-century conditions, and propose that new urban futures currently lie fallow in
our recent past. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Metabolism | en_US |
dc.subject | Residential Towers | en_US |
dc.subject | Adaptive Reuse | en_US |
dc.subject | Fenwick Place | en_US |
dc.subject | Brutalism (Architecture) | en_US |
dc.subject | High-rise apartment buildings | |
dc.subject | Halifax (N.S.) | |
dc.title | Back to the Future: New Metabolisms for Declining Urban Towers | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2016-06-28 | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Anne Cormier | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Diogo Burnay | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Cristina Verissimo | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Sarah Bonnemaison | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |