Established in 2010 on the roof of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at 230 College Street in Toronto, the Green Roof Innovation Testing Laboratory (GRIT Lab) is a state-of-the-art facility — and the only one of its kind testing the environmental performance associated with green roofs, green walls and solar
The CLR’s Platform for Resilient Urbanism (PRU) is an interdisciplinary design, education, and research arm that advances urban socio-ecological adaptation and resilience strategies. This includes the study of resilient design as a model of contemporary practice, as well as an instrumental and projective policy tool.
The Project Suburb Research Group explores the physical spaces of the suburbs with the ambition of imagining alternative civic futures for them. Based at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, our group brings together practitioners and scholars from different disciplines to understand the lived space of the suburbs
The work of the Vertical Geopolitics Lab seeks to recentre the study of how sovereignty is acquired and disputed as a practice-based matter of space and power in the built environment. The lab runs a series of elective seminar and thesis research studio courses in an effort to expose, challenge and reconstitute the pervasive and
Fourth-year undergraduate students at the Daniels Faculty can elect to complete thesis projects. Thesis students each spend a full year performing research that aligns with their study area of choice: history and theory, design, or technology.
