Browsing Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Architectural Interpretation of Kiarostami’s Poetic Cinema
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)The Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami is famous for mobilizing natural landscapes and Iranian vernacular architecture as the primary set for his films. These spaces function not only as visual motifs, but also as elements ... -
The Architectural Parables of C.S. Lewis: The World Between Tangible and Transcendent
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-23)Beloved and renown writer, C.S. Lewis, sees the world beyond its material construction and that its meaning is rooted in its spiritual significance. Beyond the curtain of physicality lies divine reality that transcends ... -
Architecture at Play: The Magic Circle and Flow in Video Game Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)Video games are a part of modern culture. As video game spaces begin to enter a new generation’s spatial lexicon, it is important for architects, curators of spatial design, to understand this new medium of space. This ... -
An Architecture for Geographically-Oriented Service Discovery on the Internet
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Most of the service discovery protocols available on the Internet are built upon its logical structure. This phenomenon can be observed frequently from the way in which they behave. For instance, Jini and SLP service ... -
An Architecture For Multi-Agent Systems Operating In Soft Real-Time Environments With Unexpected Events
(University of Waterloo, 2004)In this thesis, we explore the topic of designing an architecture and processing algorithms for a multi-agent system, where agents need to address potential unexpected events in the environment, operating under soft ... -
An Architecture for Reliable Encapsulation Endpoints using Commodity Hardware
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-15)Customized hardware is expensive and making software reliable is difficult to achieve as complexity increases. Recent trends towards computing in the cloud have highlighted the importance of being able to operate continuously ... -
An Architecture for the AES-GCM Security Standard
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The forth recommendation of symmetric block cipher mode of operation SP800-38D, <em>Galois/Counter Mode of Operation</em> (GCM) was developed by David A McGrew and John Viega. GCM uses an approved symmetric key block ... -
Architecture in a Northern Flood Plain
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The thesis is an exploration of strategies that could be utilised in creating sustainable urbanism, one in which the inhabitants retain a relationship with the environmental and geographic conditions of their place. ... -
Architecture in Search of Sensory Balance
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis addresses the urgent need to awaken our numbed senses by means of haptic architecture. As today's technologies continue to hyper-stimulate and under-differentiate, it is architecture's obligation to resist ... -
An Architecture of Belonging: Housing New Canadians
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-19)For hundreds of years immigrants have been coming to Canada to start life afresh in hopes of a better future. Many choose Canada because they consider this country a peaceful, tolerant and welcoming place where people and ... -
The Architecture of Community: Public Space in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-16)The public spaces of many low-income, inner-city neighbourhoods are fundamental in forming strong social networks, nurturing the development of community and supporting the needs of vulnerable residents. This aspect of the ... -
an architecture of daily life: the continuing evolution of Toronto's residential fabric
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis envisions a new way of living in the city of Toronto. It is a vision that evolves not from the ideologies on which Toronto was founded, set out over 100 years ago when all multi-family dwellings were called ... -
The Architecture of Space and Transformation in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-28)This thesis examines the architecture and space simulated in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and argues that the hand which guides the design of virtual architecture and space in these games ... -
Architecture Saturated with Free-Thinking Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-08)This thesis explores the benefits and disadvantages for human occupants living within intelligent buildings and responsive environments that have developed the autonomy and the ability to make their own intelligent decisions ... -
Architecture that Binds: A Place for Weddings and Funerals for a New Society
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Weddings and funerals are some of the most universally profound events of our lives. Both acts, however disparate, ultimately celebrate life. This thesis draws on themes of life and regeneration in its reading of a ... -
Architecture/Education: Spatial Empowerment through Capacity Building
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)Architecture is too important to be left solely in the hands of architects, developers, and builders. All have the right to build, alter, and inhabit spaces that meet their needs and desires. For this condition to occur, ... -
Architecture: An Introspective Look at the Pedagogical Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-20)In North America, to become an architect, students must acquire a wide range of knowledge, create designs in studio, and spend some time working in an architecture firm. There are various lessons that they need to learn, ... -
Are Drag Queens Sexist? Female Impersonation and the Sociocultural Construction of Normative Femininity
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-07)In a great deal of social scientific literature on gender, female impersonators have been framed as the example par excellence of crossgendering and crossdressing behaviour in the West. Perceived rather dichotomously as ... -
Are environmentally friendly firms more innovation-oriented?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)This study aims to explore the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and firm’s innovation decision. It proposes that firms investing in environmental protection are more likely to have strong dynamic ...