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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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 ... -
Shim Teo as a Social Catalyst for the Elderly of Korea
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-23)Korean society can be described as a society that is built on the idea of 'care' and ‘share’. From the centuries-old constitution which declared Korea to be a 'country embracing filial duties' and an old saying of 'respecting ... -
Incremental Urban Vernacular: Portraits of Transitional Spaces in Taipei's Xinwei Building
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-17)This thesis investigates creative appropriation of the spaces within the Xinwei Building, a half century post-war walk-up apartment in the Da’an District of Taipei, Taiwan. The thesis expresses the ephemeral, liminal, and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Fitness of Play: A Prototype for a Holistic Activity Space at Toronto’s Riverdale Park
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-10)The value of personal well-being and execution of fitness varies between individuals as the constant transformation of societal ideologies around fitness continually impact the macro perception. This in turn leaves the ... -
Chinatown as Heterotopia: Culture and the Crisis of Commodification in Toronto's Chinatown(s)
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-09)This thesis studies the historical and present roles that culture plays in the formation of cities by analyzing the evolution of North American Chinatowns as heterotopias within the city throughout the cultural and social ... -
A Dive into Chinese Science Fiction: A Language of the Chinese Dream
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-20)This thesis investigates an emerging international wave of fantastical writings that surfaced roughly a bit over a decade ago, the globalization of Chinese science fiction (SF or sci-fi). Underdiscussed in overseas modern ... -
Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home from Jaffna, Sri Lanka to the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Displacement is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space; however, the practice of housework and homemaking allows forcibly displaced people to reconstruct home elsewhere. Centring the context ... -
Food & Cultural Center, A New Model for Toronto's Shopping Center - A place for collective memories and un-heard stories of South Asian Immigrants & their future generations in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)With the increase in global migration, the notion of cultural identity is now no longer attached to a single place or time and is a continuous process of re-making. This thesis investigates the role of art, craft, and ... -
The Production of Space for Entrepreneurship: State-Led Gentrification & Innovation along the ION Light Rail Transit Line in the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)The Region of Waterloo is rapidly transforming along the route of the ION Light Rail Transit Line as expansions in the innovation industry and investments in public space enhance a new linear core. As the transit line ... -
Beyond Wayfinding : Sensory Focused Design for the Non-Sighted
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)While visually oriented architectural design has long been used to enhance the perceptions that shape the world of an existing ocular-centric norm, this has led to a less than satisfactory experience for users with ... -
Borders & Barricades: A Study of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)Amidst the global rise of resistance against crises and discontent, space performs an elementary role in pursuing changes to the status quo. Hong Kong’s administrative boundaries have been in continuous shifts throughout ... -
After Hours: Agency and Identity in Toronto’s Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Electronic Music Scene
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)The architecture of a night - a party lasting until the sun breaks, and the crowd of faces disperse, without a trace. What happens in that one night, however, is part of a much longer story about community growth, where ... -
Red Earth: Shaping the Igbo family compound
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-23)Like many other African indigenous peoples, the Igbo of Nigeria established multi-generational compound homes. Many of these family compounds remain in southeastern Nigeria’s rural communities, although not as originally ... -
Life on Mars: Palimpsests of the Forthcoming Martian Res Publica
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-21)Mars is set to be the new frontier of humanity, and as a result poses a unique set of architectural and engineering challenges to be overcome. Interest into both small and large-scale Martian settlements has greatly increased ... -
The Weft House: A Transitional Housing Program to Empower Afghan Refugees in Canada.
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-20)According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of forcibly displaced people is growing yearly. These people flee their country due to war, violence, persecution, famine, and other life-threatening ... -
Chasing Chopsticks Street: A Sequel to Foshan’s Forgotten Qilous
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-07)Since China’s economic reform in the late 1970s, large extents of its cities’ vernacular urban fabrics have been replaced by state-of-the-art high-rises in a building frenzy that was equally unprecedented in its destructive ... -
On Common Grounds
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Canada’s housing market has been unaffordable, inaccessible, and commodified for a long time. Due to the ever-increasing real-estate prices and critical housing shortages, there has been an elevated need for more alternative ...
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