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.
Recent deposits
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The Newfoundland Root Cellar: Adapting Passive Strategies for the New Corner Store
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-02)Since the re-settlement programs and the cod moratorium in Newfoundland, rural residents have migrated en masse to urban areas. As they move to cities, their connection to food production is diminished as farms are abandoned ... -
We Belong With the Water: Mobility, temporal habitation, rituals, and other 'incidental' elements surrounding fish harvesting traditions of Indigenous communities in Southern Georgian Bay - A Graphic Novel
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-24)For over 200 years, the delineation of the land and subsequent colonial settlement throughout Canada has subjugated and removed Indigenous presence from the land. This includes their constructions, tools, and laws connected ... -
A Tale of Two Cities: Re-Imagining Tahrir Square’s Muggamaa Complex(e)
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-08)Cairo, Al Qahera, the city Victorious in Arabic, is being replaced by a new administrative capital 50 km away from its core in the middle of the desert . Known throughout history as the City of a Thousand Minarets, Cairo ... -
Re-Territorializing Park-Monument of The Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)The silhouettes of colossal Soviet monuments in Bulgaria shaped the landscape of the nation, both physically, and metaphorically. Many remain abandoned, some have been removed, a few modified, but their controversy remains ... -
(Post)Colonial Tectonics: reflections on relations in Indigenous spatial practice between the Beautiful Waters and Willow River
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)I find myself studying architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, a settler on lands stewarded by the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples for countless generations, on a tract following the Grand River (or Willow ... -
Farming the High Seas: An adaptive approach for the inhabitation of oceanic recirculation gyres
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Ocean management authorities predict that global fish stocks will be severely depleted by mid-century unless commercial fishing practices are greatly modified. This thesis considers aquatic architecture in general, and ... -
Mediation: Resonating between the Organic and Inorganic
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)This thesis emerges from the desire of unity between the intuitive and empirical expressions of nature. It argues for a greater understanding of 'patterns' inherent in nature and advocates for the need to see things as a ... -
MeasureIt-ARCH: A Tool for Facilitating Architectural Design in the Open Source Software Blender
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)This thesis discusses the design and synthesis of MeasureIt-ARCH, a GNU GPL licensed software add-on developed by the author in order to add functionality to the Open Source 3D modeling software Blender that facilitates ... -
An Architectural Implementation of Topology Optimization Guided Discrete Structures with Customized Geometric Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)This thesis explores the use of Topology Optimization (abbreviated to TO) in architectural design by implementing a Bidirectional Evolutionary Structural Optimization(abbreviated to BESO) type TO script as a guide to create ... -
The Fabrication Commons: Creative Agency Through Intuitive Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)With digital fabrication tools and networking technology becoming increasingly attainable and versatile, there is an opportunity for more people to become makers instead of just being passive consumers. How can we take ... -
Brewing a New Community: Redefining local industrial manufacturing within a city
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)The effects of globalization echo in former factory cities, in their depleted industrial landscapes and their abandoned buildings, creating a disconnect between people, their identities, their communities, and their cities. ... -
När: Constructing a Sensory Concentration Space
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)När: Constructing a Sensory Concentration Space presents a work that contemplates, designs, and materialises the notion of public personal space. Modern society often leaves us alienated from ourselves. This thesis is an ... -
The Artifacts of No-Place
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)This thesis assembles within it a glimpse of ‘a life’. It traces a path of disillusion to dissolution in navigating a search for identity in an increasingly globalized world. Settling into the trajectory carved by ... -
Poetics of Water
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)Dhaka was built on the banks of the river Buriganga around 700 AD. Over the last 400 years, it has grown into one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Every year, Dhaka sees an influx of migrants, who move ... -
Developing Publics: Opportunities for the Community in the Mississauga Employment Areas
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-26)The post-war suburbs were not designed to be cities. As they mature and grow, these places need to adapt to take on the roles of new urban centres. However, increasingly it seems these places are inflexible to change in ... -
Tuning Monuments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-25)This thesis examines the development of historically inaccurate monuments that censor and sanitize reality by questioning their ongoing legacies by using a derivative of counter monument culture. Tuning Monuments seeks to ... -
Tracing Timber
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-25)Today, the big box store is where we buy our wood, but not long ago the wood that we used for the structures, finishes and furniture for our buildings might have been harvested locally from a nearby forest or even the ... -
Housing for an Emerging Middle Class: Rethinking the Development of Military Bases in Metro Manila
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-20)A shortage of affordable housing in Metro Manila, Philippines, has become an issue for those who work in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. While this housing shortage has existed since World War 2, the ... -
The Unbounded School: Education Beyond the Walls
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Public education has long been a tool for state authorities to establish and indoctrinate societal moral and civic standards, a stance that has shifted in modern society. In Canada, provincial public education systems have ... -
Encountering the Waterlands: Stories of Environment, Animals and Architecture in the Ahiak
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)In spring of 2019, I travelled through Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut to the Ahiak (Queen Maud Gulf) Migratory Bird Sanctuary for a five-week volunteer position studying populations of migratory geese. In this ...
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