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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It Takes a Village: A Retrofit Framework for Improving Health and Community in Car-Dependent Suburbs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-09)Car-dependent suburban sprawl is an outdated planning methodology that is antithetical to the health, wellbeing, and social prosperity of suburban residents. In the past, North-American town planning was more community-centric; ... -
Tracing the Grotesque: Finding Value in the Urban Villages of Shenzhen
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-06)The rapid urbanization, which has happened since the 1979 economic reform, has fundamentally changed Shenzhen, China. The city was developed to be an Economic Zone, so millions of original village houses were demolished ... -
Cultural Interface
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-06)Architecture can be seen as humankind’s original canvas, a primary means of cultural expression and the total, sovereign art form. Public architecture and urban public spaces, in particular, are meant to be theaters for ... -
A Home Then, A Home Now
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Hong Kong Canadians remember, inhabit, and imagine their homes to develop a process for positioning transnational belonging within the built environment. In response to discriminatory migration and ... -
What Happens After The Mine?: A critique of approaches to the design, remediation, and perpetual care of post-extraction landscapes in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Mining produces enormous amounts of waste, often toxic, that requires containment, record keeping, and monitoring in perpetuity to ensure it does not harm the surrounding ecosystem. Post-extraction landscapes in Canada ... -
Walls of Air: A Retrofit for Equitable Indoor Air Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-04)Poor indoor air quality and lack of space for adequate isolation within postwar towers increase the risk of negative effects on resident health leaving them more vulnerable to infectious diseases. The unequal ability to ... -
Deconstructing DHA Lahore: Analysing post-1980s Military operated housing through three spatial-ideological systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-30)Lahore’s urban fabric has become defined by sprawling, fragmented gated housing. At the forefront of such development is Defence Housing Authority (DHA), a residential development agency owned by affiliates of the Pakistani ... -
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 ... -
In Defense of Soil: an Ontario Greenbelt Regeneration Strategy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-10)Ontario’s prime agricultural soils are in distress. Degraded by decades of intense conventional agricultural practices and threatened by the advancing footprint of suburban development, the once abundant layer of topsoil ... -
Practices of Furtive Commoning in the [Post]Apartheid, [Post]Colonial City of Cape Town, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)Contemporary neoliberal policies in Cape Town, South Africa repeat and perpetuate colonial and apartheid era patterns of socio-spatial segregation. These patterns result in the sustained quiet encroachment of informal ... -
The Becoming
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)A child wanders into a thicket of northern red oak and black raspberry to soothe the wounds of the past. The child is plagued with the malaise of the soul, otherwise know as major depressive disorder, and seeks to heal. ... -
RESILIENT GROUND: A Proposal for Re-Establishing Relationship Between People, Land and Water in Saigon/Ho-Chi-Minh City Amidst Urbanization and Flooding
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)The urban fabric of Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City, HCMC) is an intense and complex layering of planning and development. It has provoked my curiosity for a long time because of its pragmatic, informal, and ... -
WaterWoven: Living on the margins in the Roncador River region, Brazil
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)Informal settlements located on river edges in impoverished Brazilian urban peripheries, such as the Roncador River region in Duque de Caxias city, have been increasingly suffering from the effects of more intense urban ... -
The Fading Village: An Archive of Exile and Errantry
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-19)Institutional archives—our hegemonic repositories of cultural memory—are in the midst of an identity crisis. They are no longer seen as neutral sites of knowledge retrieval, but rather as instruments of knowledge production. ... -
Beyond an Eyesore: Re-Imagining Scarborough’s Strip Malls as a Network of Public Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)This thesis celebrates the vitality and public life of the post war era strip malls located in Toronto’s inner suburb of Scarborough. These spaces are ritualistically utilitarian and informal social destinations due to ... -
Grading Light: Utilizing plastic deformation to functionally grade ceramic light screens
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)When interacting with light, surface geometries and clay bodies can work together to heighten the perception of depth and alter illumination. This thesis investigates how clay 3D printing can generate materially responsive ... -
Grading Light: Utilizing plastic deformation to functionally grade ceramic light screens
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)When interacting with light, surface geometries and clay bodies can work together to heighten the perception of depth and alter illumination. This thesis investigates how clay 3D printing can generate materially responsive ... -
Clay Shapes the Hand
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-16)Clay is a ubiquitous and malleable substance that records history at the scale of geologic time. Present in creation stories and found to be one of the first human tools, clay runs parallel to humanity. Clay acts as a ... -
Re-wilding the Neighborhood: Discovering Ecological Harmony Through Design with Habitats Along the Oak Ridges Trail
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-19)This thesis is a reflection on the impacts of suburban sprawl on ecosystem health and biodiversity in York Region, using a design proposal to repopulate pollinator habitat within the fabric of an existing neighborhood. The ... -
Echoes of decolonization | From North Africa to Europe: questioning the trip back home
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-26)The Colonial Modern enterprise in North Africa produced unique architectural responses in the twentieth century, oscillating between rupture with the past and continuity of the tradition, negotiation of indigenous expression ...
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