Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "Home"
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An Architectural Inquiry into the Significance of Home
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-06)What is home, and why are we drawn to spaces which elicit this feeling within us? Why is it that we are immediately able to achieve a type of rapport with some spaces, while others remain indifferent to us? What is it about ... -
a House to be Home
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Architecture exists in context. Buildings are designed for, and exist in, a place and time. The vast majority must adhere to a relative strict set of construction, regulatory, and cultural considerations; all of them are ... -
Monsoon Notebook: Exploring Home
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)This thesis explores the meaning of home, and the role it plays in my relationship to architecture. It rests in the transitional space between my native Sri Lanka and Canada, where I have lived for the last eighteen years. ... -
The Museum of Me (MoMe)
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)In this project, Heidi Overhill explores her own home as a case study of the roles played by objects in the expression of self; as a microcosm of meaning in material culture. By examining her different kinds of collections ... -
Tactics to Tiny: Finding Your Way Home
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-31)This is a study of tiny homes and how they fit within the practical and theoretical framework of our regulatory housing system. It starts with a (much) smaller home but has social, political, financial and legal implications ... -
You Can Never Go Home
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-16)My thesis exhibition, You Can Never Go Home, reflects the idea of irreconcilable, parallel homes, one that’s here and one that’s there. Moving from Calgary, Alberta, to Waterloo, Ontario, to pursue my Master of Fine Arts, ...