Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Winton, Tracey"
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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 ... -
Back to the Mountains: A Guesthouse for the Preservation of Vernacular Memory on Mount Tomorr in Albania
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)For millennia, the mountains of Albania have been a repository of vernacular knowledge, and in difficult times, a place of refuge from the often-hostile urban world. However, since the fall of Communism in the early 1990s, ... -
Chasing Chopsticks Street: A Sequel to Foshan’s Forgotten Qilous
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)Since China’s economic reform in the late 1970s, large extents of its cities’ vernacular urban fabrics have been replaced by state-of-the-art high-rises in a building frenzy that was equally unprecedented in its destructive ... -
City of Rebirth: Revisiting the Place and Memory of Tainan's Multi-generational Homes
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)This thesis is an interdisciplinary exploration of how the multi-generational homes in Tainan, Taiwan, along with the objects and people found within them, play a fundamental role in shaping the city's individual and ... -
Dwellings for the Goryan: Re-crafting Bulgarian Post-Soviet Identity at the Site of the Friendship Monument
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-18)My interest begins in present day Bulgaria at the prominent site of a ruined Soviet monument which the country’s previous communist regime built in 1979. Their monuments expressed communist philosophy through their ... -
Imitation vs. Adaptation in Canadian Mosques: The Conflicts and Challenges of Purpose-Built and Repurposed Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)In Canada, the construction of Islamic mosques has been influenced by various cultural biases, historical interpretation, and a multitude of subtle contradictions which shape the identities of the different generations of ... -
In the Shadow of an Oak Tree : A place to heal for women of Sarpol Zahab city
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)Natural disasters are unpredictable, terrible events that can change people’s lives in less than a minute, like the 7.3 earthquake that shook western Iran in November 2017. Sarpol Zahab, a small Kurdish city sited near ... -
Materializing the Hidden Identity of Hong Kong: Re-connecting Hong Kong's vanishing fishing community through urban interventions on the Tam Gong Festival route in Shau Kei Wan
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-25)Against the backdrop of the expanding metropolis of Hong Kong, many functioning members of contemporary society have concealed facets of themselves that they now deem irrelevant to their daily lives. Over the last half a ... -
Nomadic Passage: Water Conservation and Land Preservation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-24)“Nomadic Passage: Water Conservation and Land Preservation” investigates the dynamic and sustainable qualities of Somali nomadic life, in regards to their livelihood, communal spaces, and traditional practices that are ... -
The Path Less Taken: the Intersection of Narratives and the Icelandic Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-27)Of the many lenses through which the value of landscape is evaluated, the lens most prevalently used is profitability. This thesis rejects that simplistic view and instead offers an alternative: evaluating a landscape via ... -
The Psychology of Nature: Our Dwellings, Well-being, and Evolutionary Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Nature has always played a significant role in the human experience. Throughout prehistory, our early ancestors experienced life through a purely natural world. As an evolutionary mechanism aiding their survival and ... -
Shanghai lilong: an intertwined relationship between the dwellers & the architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-03)The thesis investigates the lilong neighbourhoods of Shanghai, known for their high-density housing organized around narrow longtangs (alleyways), during the 1970s and 1980s. It unfolds the intertwining relationship between ... -
The Story of the Hands: On Earth and Community
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)The phenomenon that the universalization of the urban (and rural) form has disadvantaged many Iranian cities and villages of a sense of place, culture, and identity, is not a very recent one. Neither is it a novel understanding ... -
The Value of Ornament
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)This thesis recognizes ornament as not simply an excessive accessory, but an innate human desire to imbue objects with beauty and meaning. Ornament’s prominence throughout disparate architectures regardless of culture, ... -
Xinjiang's Vernacular Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)The Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang is home to numerous ethnic groups and their vernacular architecture that is uniquely representative of their geographical contexts, collective wisdoms, and cultural identities. In ...