Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Andrighetti, Rick"
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Care as Architectural Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)The thesis explores the concept of care and its implications in public wellbeing through architectural practice. The Waterloo Region of Ontario, during the coronavirus pandemic, provides the setting of this investigation. ... -
Exploring Toronto's Inner Frontier
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-05)It is without ceasing that urban spaces witness the cycle of their birth and death. Like the waves of an ocean repeatedly crashing into and withdrawing from the shoreline, the city’s sphere of production and human ... -
Fitness of Play: A Prototype for a Holistic Activity Space at Toronto’s Riverdale Park
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-10)The value of personal well-being and execution of fitness varies between individuals as the constant transformation of societal ideologies around fitness continually impact the macro perception. This in turn leaves the ... -
Happiness within the Uncanny: Revitalizing the Street Level in Hong Kong's New Town
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Hong Kong is the physical embodiment of neoliberalism at all levels of society, and the city itself is seen as a domain for private corporations to generate profit, creating spaces that are purely functional and generic. ... -
More than a "Thing-in-Itself": An Inquiry into Work through the Interrelations of Making, Material, and Design
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)The thesis began with a desire to better understand the built environment and its relationship to value, temporality and material. The seat became the vehicle for this exploration. In its ubiquity the seat has found a ... -
Repairs and Reappropriations: Examining Cultures of Care, Production, Agency in Bombay/Mumbai Chawls
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-23)This thesis is driven by unravelling the intricate dynamics of ‘marramat’/repair. As the focus broadened, the work began to consider reappropriation and reuse as spatial tactics of agency. The research is anchored within ... -
Retrofitting Tarmac Wastelands: Designing for Social and Ecological Permeability
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-03)This thesis investigates urban strategies to restore ecological and social permeability in underutilized tarmac surfaces of commercial and industrial areas built on ecologically sensitive sites. The city of Toronto has ... -
Shim Teo as a Social Catalyst for the Elderly of Korea
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-23)Korean society can be described as a society that is built on the idea of 'care' and ‘share’. From the centuries-old constitution which declared Korea to be a 'country embracing filial duties' and an old saying of 'respecting ...