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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 ... -
Dharavi: Merging Boundaries
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)In Mumbai, Dharavi, occupying over 525 acres, houses a million people, making it one of the world’s largest informal settlements. In ever-expanding Mumbai, Dharavi, once at the city’s edge, has become its heart. With ... -
Digital Craft | In Search of a Method of Personal Expression Within the Digital
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Our relationship with the digital has fundamentally changed within the past decade. A mesh of outside interests have been efficiently folding themselves into our lives. These exist as either a legion of hosted “free” web ... -
Digital Innocence
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-16)Screens mediate an ever-increasing part of our experience today. While the space within our screens is indispensable - as perceptually ‘real’ as embodied experience itself - this space tends to exclude the hands and body ... -
The Dionysian Temple of Toronto An Exploration of Nietzsche’s Affirmation of Life
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-14)This thesis investigates the life-affirming Dionysian philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and how its components can be translated into a Dionysian temple. Ever since Nietzsche’s pronouncement of the death of God, affirming ... -
Disappearing Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-25)Disappearing Architecture Media facades dominate the skylines of many of our cities. A quick stroll through today’s urban areas involves a one-sided conversation directed at pedestrians. Advertisements aggressively ... -
Displace and Urbanized: Or Why We Build
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)I embarked on this research with the aim to study the relationship between the city and the flood, understanding the waterfront as some blurred edge where wild and human forces mix. My hope was to propose a design strategy ... -
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 ... -
Divided Cities & the In-Between
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)All cities set up a condition of disjunction as they are inherently manmade ‘built’ places separate from the natural wilderness they abut. The cities that emerge over time are then places held in tension between the kinetic ... -
Diving in: The Architecture of Urban Lake Swimming
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)In the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, the Lake Ontario waterfront along the Greater Toronto Area was packed with swimmers enjoying its waters. Today, on a hot summer’s day, one could find the ... -
Domestic Insurgency - Towards Affordable Housing in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)Vancouver’s persisting housing crisis has decoupled dwelling prices from local income through persistent capital investment oriented dwelling typologies and restrictions on land availability. Vancouver, as one of the first ... -
"Don't Let Fear Take Over": The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-15)The Indian Residential School (IRS) system in Canada directly affected 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken to state-sponsored and church-run institutions to separate them from their families and cultures. During the ... -
The Double Edge of Ironic Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)During the postmodern era, which took place between the middle to the late 20th Century, irony became the predominant mode of cultural expression. This growth in the frequency and intensity of irony in culture has been ... -
Doubling and Desire
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)This thesis proposes that an investigation into the phenomenon of doubling may engage architecture with a type of desire that has deep rooted connections with the complexities of human nature, with the very human condition ...