Our team is made up of Masters students from the Architecture and Engineering programs at Carleton with an interest in how buildings, both modern and historic, can play a continued role in the quality of our built environment through preservation and adaptation.
From left: Dana Mastrangelo, Taylor Quibell, Melissa Lengies (Feb. 2023)
Below is the list of all the current members of the Carleton team in an alphabetical order.
Dana Mastrangelo is currently in her final year of the two-year M.Arch program at Carleton. She received her B.Sc. in Architecture at McGill University. Her research surrounding the SSHRC Grant focuses on awards pertaining to Adaptive Reuse. Specifically, she is looking at the criteria used to evaluate Adaptive Reuse projects, as well as discovering the reasons why certain building typologies that undergo Adaptive Reuse are awarded more than others. Dana’s M.Arch thesis aims to teach architects how to draw movement within architectural representation to produce more adaptable architecture. She is passionate about visual art, drawing and fitness.
Melissa Lengies is in her final year of the Master of Architecture program at Carleton and holds a Bachelor of Architecture specializing in heritage conservation and sustainability. As part of the SSHRC research grant, she has been focusing on policies which directly or indirectly impact the feasibility and quality of building reuse in Ottawa and examples of policies in Canada and abroad which encourage synergies between building reuse and environmental, social and cultural sustainability. Melissa is also currently writing a thesis on adaptive reuse in Montreal’s Chinatown, and enjoys traveling, dessert-making, and language learning in her free time.
Taylor Quibell is entering her final semester of the Master of Applied Science: Building Engineering program with a concentration in Heritage Conservation at Carleton. She holds a degree in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering in 2021, where she specialized in Structural Engineering. Taylor looks specifically at barriers and benefits to building reuse in heritage and existing buildings in the SSHRC Grant. She is also focusing on different criterias used to evaluate buildings for reuse. In addition, Taylor looks at the environmental benefits of reuse, as this pertains to her thesis on designing a universal tool to measure the embodied carbon of our existing building stock. Taylor also works at the City of Ottawa as a Heritage Planner, and spends her free time running along the Rideau Canal and going on hikes.
