Architecture
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's School of Architecture .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Within the Ruin is Colour: making with twenty-eight chromatic encounters
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-23)Through twenty-eight encounters, this thesis explores site history differently; colour becomes a lens of site analysis that traces social, economic, and environmental accounts of materials, while challenging the familiarity ... -
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 ... -
What's Up With the Downtown?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)What’s Up with the Downtown? uses North Bay, Ontario to examine issues of downtown core usage and design in rural North American cities. As malls and box retail have moved to the forefront of physical spaces catering to ... -
Hybrid Bivouac: High-Modulus Composite Membranes for Portable Shelters
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-27)This thesis explores an iterative modelling and fabrication process for fibre-based composites through the design of a lightweight, portable shelter for backpacking and mountaineering. Existing tent typologies compromise ... -
Objective Validation of Airport Terminal Architecture using Agent-based Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-25)This thesis explores how airport terminal architecture is tested before it is built. The purpose of testing is to make sure an architectural layout aligns with the rest of the airport’s systems. The design of a terminal ... -
Ecological Infrastructures - Reconnecting The Fragments of Garrison Creek through Four Frameworks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)Garrison Creek is one of many ravines along Toronto’ s waterfront which have undergone numerous transformations since the establishment of Toronto as a city. Accelerated urbanization of the downtown core and waste dumping ... -
Democratizing Residential Architecture: Platform Based Spatial Agency
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-19)The systems which produce residential architecture do not work to serve the needs of residents and instead have primarily become investment vehicles for capital growth. The conventional developer-driven approach is devoid ... -
Construction Management Project Delivery Method: A Case Study of the Centre Block Rehabilitation Project
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-19)Buildings are no longer solely designed and the building of them overseen by architects during their construction. In a slow evolution over decades, the overall building process has transformed into a collaborative design ... -
The Re-amortization Act: A Material Durational Agenda for Conservation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-12)With the urgency of the climate crisis, we need to begin thinking of new systems that properly value the existing embodied energy invested in Toronto’s built forms, challenging existing neoliberal patterns of development, ... -
Natural Grieving, a Method of Preservation: Implementing Natural Burials in Ontario’s Greenbelt
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-10)We experience an incredible amount of emotion when death touches our lives. With death comes the complexity of loss and grief. The spaces of death, from the morgue, the funeral home to the cemetery, are significant components ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
From Industrial District to Interface City: Re-imagining the Corrugated Metal Sheds of Taiwan
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-07)Manufacturing industries are on the decline in Taiwan, leaving many of the island’s corrugated metal warehouses and factories at the risk of being replaced by more profitable high-rise towers. The result is a gentrification ... -
Site Finding in a Complex Urban Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)This thesis demonstrates a working method for architectural analysis that combines manipulation of spatial data with a systematic analysis approach, configured for small-scale urban site selection in Toronto. The study ... -
Let’s Make Good Stuff: Combatting planned obsolescence and junk by relearning repair, maintenance, and personal agency over the things around us
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)Let’s Make Good Stuff explores our relationship with the designed objects around us. Mass produced items have an increased ability to provide everyone with good design, or to fill our world with sub-par products. This ... -
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 ... -
The Green Scare: Radical environmental activism and the invention of "eco-terrorism" in American superhero comics from 1970 to 1990
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)American environmentalism became a recognizable social movement in the 1960s. In the following two decades the movement evolved to represent a diverse set of philosophies and developed new protest methods. In the early ... -
Many Rooms: Mixed Use Reimagining Church Redevelopments in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-19)In recent decades, Christian congregations in Canada have seen a significant decrease in affiliation and attendance. As congregations dwindled, many of the aging church buildings across the country have been sold, ... -
Beta-Testing Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-29)In the field of architecture, designers traditionally show their building concepts for design analysis mainly through static renderings. The problem with static renderings is that they don’t show us how and if buildings ...
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