Browsing Theses by Subject "architecture"
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The 38th Parallel: Penetrating the Line
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)In July 1953, the armistice ended the Korean War that lasted for three years and established the Demilitarized Zone on either side of the demarcation line as a buffer between the two countries to prevent further military ... -
50:50—Sovereignty, Price, Density, Efficiency: Housing-led Economic Urban Expansion in Hong Kong.
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-16)Hong Kong is an ideal laboratory in which to study relationships between economy and architecture. In this city, tremendous power is held by both the state and in private capital. Urban form may be read as a tangible ... -
AERO|ASTRO Architecture: the hybridizing frontier of emergent industries
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Architectural designers often need to strike an uneasy balance between idealism and reality. Under most circumstances, architects are restricted by clients, budgets, and available technologies. However, divorced from ... -
Affirming Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-22)The fitness space ranges in shape and size, from gyms, health clubs to yoga studios spread across the globe, symbolizing an ongoing fitness revolution that has grown and expanded over the past century. Fitness values vary ... -
Agritecture: Woven Lea Farm
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-29)This thesis is a design of a sustainable family farm within the context of drastic changes is rural areas over the past century and the coming changes of the future century. The design explores the integration of farm ... -
Anatolian Regional Modernism A Proposal for Regional Residential Prototypes for Black Sea, Cappadocia and Aegea
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Located at the convergence point of European and Asian continents, Anatolia has been a melting pot of cultures, peoples, and architecture. Traveling through the land, one can witness a wide spectrum of history on display, ... -
AquaCalifornia: Water Infrastructure in the Age of Scarcity
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-26)Water scarcity has always been a defining issue of the American West; and California is one of the western states that have long struggled with the management of its water resources. Over the past 5 years, California’s ... -
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 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, ... -
Assembly: A Revaluation of Public Space in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis focuses on the problem of defining and designing public space in contemporary mass society. "Assembly" revaluates a cultural understanding of public space as the space of regulation, consumption and leisure, ... -
The Atlas of Legal Fictions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-13)The Jewish Eruv is a defined physical area that symbolically extends the ‘home,’ beyond its walls and into the community. Purposefully built to be undetectable to the untrained eye, Eruvin are present, yet hidden, in the ... -
Awakening Beauty: Meaning in Contemporary Catholic Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)A Catholic church is unique among other places of worship because the space of a church forms the central place for the sacramental life of the Church, as Body of Christ, while also being an expression of it. With the ... -
Awe-Inducing Interior Space: Architectural Causes and Cognitive Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)The purpose of the present work was to investigate whether religious monumental architecture facilitates religious feeling by inducing a sense of awe. In order to elucidate how church interiors elicit awe and otherwise ... -
Barriers to Change: Environmental Blockades as Radical Spatial Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)Space carries a fundamental role in the pursuit of societal change. Recently, the relationship between space and change has constantly been revealed, challenged, and advanced at diverse sites of resistance. Amidst a multitude ... -
Beijing Underground
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)This thesis investigates a unique type of migrant housing in Beijing: underground hostels retrofitted from civil air defence basements. The core of this study consists of field research conducted from 2005-2006. Personal ... -
Beni Atlas': An interface for the informal city
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-16)A map is a chart or diagram that uses spatial relationships to communicate information. Through the medium of the map a desired goal can be impressed on people’s minds as a first step to changing the environment. The history ... -
Between Four Walls and City Streets: Urban Challenges and Domestic Adaptations
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)The practices of domesticity within the city have expanded the understanding of ‘home’ to encompass a broad range of spaces beyond the physical boundaries of the dwelling. The city itself, by means of its own inherent ...