Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Blackwell, Adrian"
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Arguments in the Streets Became More Frequent
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-23)Our contemporary societal condition is comprised of an involuntary association of humans to a system which prioritizes Authoritarianism, hierarchy, and capitalism. In other words this system supports a systemic or enforced ... -
bicycle factory » a post-post-Fordist urban intervention
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-24)Cities were once filled with bicycles and factories—urban typologies now regarded as anachronistic elements of the landscape, as their relationship to the built environment evolved throughout the Industrial Revolution, ... -
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. ... -
Changing Lanes: Taking Vancouver’s laneway housing from feeding speculation to an affordable ownership model under a Community Land Trust
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)Towards the end of 2017, after consultation with a series of reports, studies, and advisory groups, the Vancouver City Council has published the Housing Vancouver Strategy (2018-2027) and 3-Year Action Plan (2018-2020) ... -
Claiming a Piece of Sky
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-11)When you wander into a workers’ village on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, you would see a very unique type of urban vernacular: suspended additions hanging on the façade. They are the inhabitants’ attempt to transform ... -
Coffee Houses and Arcades: A Forensic Inquiry into the Myths of Modernity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-16)Two founding myths of modernity, British coffee houses and Parisian arcades, have both been described as stages for the public display of private persons. The former was a “micro-stage where visitors could enact their ... -
Collective Form Infill housing and new domestic spaces in Toronto's residential neighbourhoods
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-25)Toronto is facing a housing crisis, the symptoms of which are apparent across the city; property values are increasing at a dizzying rate, rental vacancy rates are at historic lows, poverty and displacement are being made ... -
Collectivizing the Platform: Re-Imagining Hotel Living as an Affordable Housing Strategy in San Francisco
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-01)This thesis proposes to re-evaluate the role of the Single Room Occupancy Hotel (SRO) typology to aid affordable housing production in San Francisco within the context of Californian techno-dominance. In our platform ... -
A Commons For Resistance
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)Oakland’s housing crisis is starkly visible. In recent years, the tech boom in Silicon Valley has drastically increased costs of living in the Bay Area. Many workers from San Francisco and the peninsula have relocated ... -
Condominium Towers: Habitus and alienation in the new urban framework
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-26)Since 2002, over 180000 new dwellings have been built in Toronto through condominium ownership, filling the downtown core with towers and locking much of the city’s society into a relatively new model of property ownership ... -
Contemplating a New Danwei Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Market-driven Capitalist urbanization is no longer a viable option for China as it has produced increasingly monotonous and segregated cities that deny culture, history, ecology, and human connection. Cultural efficiencies ... -
Designing an Architecture of Labour Affirmation, Harm Reduction and Community Development for Vancouver's Sex Worker Population
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-26)Within the current political, social, and legal landscape of Canada, sex workers face a considerable number of barriers to labour recognition that would afford them labour rights, dignity, and safety. The refusal to accept ... -
Domestic Insurgency - Towards Affordable Housing in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Vancouver’s persisting housing crisis has decoupled dwelling prices from local income through persistent capital investment oriented dwelling typologies and restrictions on land availability. Vancouver, as one of the first ... -
Embracing or Not Enclosing
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-18)"The simultaneously archaic and hypermodern “archetypal fact” of twenty first century architecture and urbanism will be the enclosure, the wall, the barrier, the gate, the fence, the fortress." -Lieven De Cauter, The ... -
The Generic Spectacle
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-13)The completion of the CityCenter resort on the Las Vegas Strip in 2009 by MGM Resorts marks the single largest privately funded development in American history. It also marks a departure from all-encompassing themes of ... -
Greater Toronto Chinese Downtown
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-13)Greater Toronto Chinese Downtown (GTCD) is the largest Chinese Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area and one of the world’s most unique Chinese diasporic cities outside of Asia. Created by the sudden influx of ... -
Housing Urbanism_Living With Neighbours
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)My thesis explores how new social relationships can be reinforced by architectural spaces in residential projects in today’s complex, cross-cultural, political, and economic urban conditions. In Toronto, some newer types ... -
Ideologies of Medellín's Miracle: A critique of architecture's new utopia
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-22)Once considered the most violent city in the world, the city of Medellín, Colombia has more recently received global notoriety as a model of architecture and urban planning for social development. This notoriety originates ... -
Just Build It: Design guidelines for a tiny home community in the Region of Waterloo based on conversations with residents who have experienced homelessness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-23)As governments in the Region of Waterloo consider implementing tiny home communities (THCs) for people experiencing homelessness, the Tiny Homes Research Project (THRP) has partnered with the City of Cambridge to design a ... -
Landscapes in Motion: Active Aging in China
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)Aging in China does not mean slowing down or losing flexibility. On the contrary, aging in China is about regaining youth and becoming a younger replica of oneself. Seniors are becoming more mobile and agile through various ...