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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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 ... -
Stone it was Stone it Remained: The Evolution of Architecture on the Azores island of Pico
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)The culture of building with volcanic stone on the Portuguese Azorean Island of Pico represents the resilience of human creativity. The original settlers of this isolated Atlantic Island were faced with an adverse ... -
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 ... -
Performing the Forbidden Public Space: the Case of the New Clock Tower Square in Homs, Syria
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-23)Public spaces in Syria have been controlled and militarized for a long time, even before the revolution of 2011. In the city of Homs, however, during the revolution's early days, thousands of people poured into the New ... -
Jiazhai: In Search of My Mother's Childhood House
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)The concept of home has become increasingly complex and challenging to defi ne in modern times, as traditional notions of home are being challenged by diverse family structures, globalization and mobility, economic instability, ... -
Space & Story: Constructing and Communicating Narrative Space in Dungeons and Dragons
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-12)Designing and communicating spaces is an ever-evolving practice and challenge for the architect who must translate individual and collective experiences of space both to those within the field of architecture, and those ... -
Recollecting Identity: Food, Culture, Space and Place in the Street Markets of Hong Kong
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-04)The research investigates the importance of culture and placemaking in defining food urbanism in Hong Kong with a culture at risk of disappearing. Considering current revitalization projects and the removal of local street ... -
Geologic Control: Studies on the Colonial Afterlife of Limestone in Montreal, Quebec Through Artifact
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-01)This research traces colonial legacies and settler imaginaries of the present across the urban environment of Montreal, Quebec through a single geologic material: limestone. French settlers extracted limestone upon arrival ... -
Facadist Toronto: Heritage at Face Value
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Facadism is the practice of retaining only the outward layer of a building, usually of heritage significance, while the interiors are demolished to make way for new construction. In Toronto, this has become standard practice, ... -
The Lighthouse Keeper
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)Lighthouses are the heart and soul of hundreds of communities across Atlantic Canada; they were integral to the survival and growth of their people while acting as a safety net around the coasts. These communities no longer ... -
Ephemeral Embraces: milkweed fibres from land to body
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-24)Garments historically originate from organic fibres harvested from the Earth, however the visual and physical qualities of materials and their origins are not typically foregrounded in modern garment architecture. This ... -
Urban Renewal as Violence: Documenting the Erasure of Wooster Square
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-18)In American urban development, a defining period known as the urban renewal era took place in the decades after the Second World War. Many cities in the United States experienced a new interest in addressing urban decay; ... -
Beyond Utility: Analyzing Unseen Infrastructures of Necromobility
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-06)The year 2020 was unprecedented on varying accounts but will undoubtedly be remembered by a global pandemic bringing the world to a shuddering halt. As nations scrambled to flatten the outbreak’s curve, the virus tested ... -
Designing a living barrier fortifying the coast against extreme climate events to reharmonize the identity of people, land, and water on the Island of Efate, Vanuatu
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-24)On the Pacific island of Vanuatu, the connection the islanders have nurtured with the land and water is both evident and fundamental to their conception of life and legacy -the spirits of their ancestors are thought to ... -
Undoing Oil: Regenerative Disassembly for Copenhagen's Petrol Island
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-07)Copenhagen aims to become the first carbon neutral capital by 2025. Climate and energy crises are a concern for both the governing and the governed among Denmark’s six million people. Compared to its Nordic neighbours, the ... -
Rethinking Typology in Taipei: Designing New Frameworks for Urban Living
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-23)The Taipei streethouse is a typology that has been formed through a continuous dialogue with the local urban fabric and society. Since the typology was first brought over by Qing dynasty settlers from Fujian Province in ... -
Modulating Visual Connectivity Through 3D-Printed Ceramic Light Screens
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-07)This thesis investigates an iterative modeling and fabrication process for customizable building components through the design of a high-performance light screen. Light screens, mostly implemented as physical boundaries ... -
Thermal Walls: Enhancing Thermal Properties of Prefabricated Wall Systems with Additive Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-31)Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) is used to design the properties of any material with high precision. In relation to the construction field, solid clay bricks are structurally sturdy, but they are not designed to ... -
Grafting Maple with Cedar
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Canada’s metaphor for integrating immigrants is the mosaic —vividly colored pieces of ethnicity, culture, racial identity, and language planted side by side, and in contrast to the melting pot of the American states, ... -
Kampung Resilience: Mitigating threats of eviction in Kampung Muara Baru
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-25)The following research investigates the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD) master plan within the context of Muara Baru, Jakarta, as a neo-colonial practice that threatens to displace marginalized urban ...
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