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Dear Paul: Still absurd, after all these years
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)I grew up in the suburbs, and perhaps I am embarrassed to admit it. But there is no use denying it. It’s written all over my face. Even though I have been away for nearly a decade, the residue of that past life still ... -
Death and Memory: A Memorial and Museum for Euromaidan
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)Memorials are a way of mending hardship through the commemoration of past events. They are a physical manifestation and expression of events, used as a way to come to terms ends. They also create an opportunity for ... -
Death in the City: The St. Lawrence Funeral Centre
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)In contemporary North America, death is contained within a network of cemeteries, crematoria and funeral homes. Death-space and its associative funeral rituals are both sacred and abject resulting in marginalization that ... -
DECLAMATION: Embracing the Arid State in the Hetch Hetchy Water System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)Land reclamation is a form of land management, common in the American Southwest, that seeks to alter arid landscapes through a fabricated re-balancing of the hydrological ledger: taking water from one location, sometimes ... -
Decolonizing Architecture: Vieques as a Symbol for a Post-Colonized Puerto Rico
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Puerto Rico has been a United States territory since 1898. Since then, our identity and culture has been threatened by the impositions of the colonizer. The so-called “identity crisis” caused by the relationship with the ... -
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 ... -
Delandfill: Reclaiming Ontario's Closed Landfill Sites
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)There are over one thousand closed ‘small’ landfills in Ontario, each with differing circumstances and potential problems. This project proposes a method of addressing such dormant sites in situ, based upon a case study ... -
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 ... -
Design Architecture in Virtual Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-10)Architectural representation has newly been introduced to Virtual Reality (VR) technology, which provides architects with a medium to showcase unbuilt designs as immersive experiences. Designers can use specialized VR ... -
The Design of Food
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-02)“The gastronomic must no longer serve as mere metaphor for the arts, but must take its place among the muses.” - Allen S. Weiss Isidore of Seville, in his seventh century work Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum ... -
Design with Energy in Mind
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-16)This study demonstrates how much impact an architect can have on the environmental loads imposed by a building, through fundamental choices of building form, proportion, orientation, and enclosure design. It also offers ... -
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 ... -
Designing an Architecture of Labour Affirmation, Harm Reduction and Community Development for Vancouver's Sex Worker Population
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-26)Within the current political, social, and legal landscape of Canada, sex workers face a considerable number of barriers to labour recognition that would afford them labour rights, dignity, and safety. The refusal to accept ... -
Desire of Union
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)In our modern world, a signifi cant number of traditional values have been dramatically manipulated, taking on new meanings and definitions quite diff erent from their original or natural signifi cance. Moreover, these ... -
The Destiny Plan: Colonization of Space
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)This thesis explores a design of a colony in outer space able to comfortably sustain a dense growing population of 1 million inhabitants. This visionary colony, will exist in the Moon-Earth Lagrange Point 1 and aims to ... -
The Detail, Photographed: Reimagining the Monument
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-04)Architectural monuments lie scattered in small communities throughout Ontario, hidden by the everyday, masked by the sub-urban streets. The sub-urban streets where I lived felt impersonal and unnatural, with cookie-cutter ... -
Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens Become Assets
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Detroit is just one example of a post-industrial city that has been struggling with the decline of the American industrial economy. In the past 100 years, Detroit city has gone from one of the largest and most promising ... -
Detroit: Mapping a New Narrative
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-21)This thesis identifies the attractors of Detroit’s growth and divulges into the cultural, federal, socio-economic and urban deterrents that have afflicted Detroit for the past fifty years. It probes the city of Detroit and ... -
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 ... -
DE—FENCE: The Child and The City
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-15)Every year, after the first heavy snowfall, the city blends together under a soft, white blanket. Curbs, carefully edged garden beds, sidewalks, and sewer grates are obscured and it appears as though no one has ever taken ...