The primary area of study for this thesis is the adaptive reuse of the remaining industrial buildings on Chaudire and Albert Islands in Ottawa, Canada. The recently closed paper mills and the obsolete infrastructure from the bygone lumber industry have the opportunity to be reintegrated with the core area of the nations capital. New uses are introduced to the buildings by material activators which engage spatial and programmatic opportunities of building adaptation. The activators include stair cores, classroom blocks, shoring trusses, glass box windows, and a theatre box. The program that they introduce includes office space, residencies for artists and crafts people, a theatre, galleries, a fabrication shop, and a lap pool. The architectural interventions transform the site into a new commercial and cultural enclave within the capital region, and preserve certain heritage characteristics of the existing buildings architecture.

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