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Packing: An Architect's Guide
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-19)A study of packing constructs a critique of the everyday: a dialogue between chaos and order, surface and area, interior and exterior, gravity and lightness. In search of tangible expression of the spatial processes I ... -
Parametric Design: An Implementation of Bentley Systems Generative Components
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis addresses the need for flexible parametric design tools. It focuses on the implementation of a particular tool, Bentley Systems' Generative Components, by exploring features, strengths and weaknesses, and ... -
The Parametric Facade: Optimization in Architecture through a Synthesis of Design, Analysis and Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Modular building systems that use only prefabricated parts, sometimes known as building “kits”, first emerged in the 1830s and 1840s in the form of glass and iron roof systems for urban transportation and distribution ... -
Parkdale People's Palace: Rethinking a Heritage Church as Revitalized Social Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-22)In recent decades, Canada’s church buildings have been steadily declining in number and use due to the increasing secularization of society and the diminished role of Christianity in the country. Rather than demolishing ... -
The Parkdale Public Library is for Us
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-31)The Parkdale Public Library in Toronto is an illustration of what remains of democracy today. While government is deeming libraries irrelevant with their funding cuts, and privatized cafes are taking over as ‘public’ ... -
PART TEN: A Case for Increased Regulation of Relocatable Buildings in the Province of Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-04)Abstract: This thesis addresses the role that building regulations and codes have in shaping the way that the pre- fabricated building industry designs, manufactures and installs Relocatable Buildings (RB) used within ... -
A Path Home
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-06)With the shift in perspective from temporary to permanent residence in this country, Sikhs are caught in between two polar ends of homeland and diaspora. This thesis attempts to illuminate a third – a universal permanence ... -
The Path Less Taken: the Intersection of Narratives and the Icelandic Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-27)Of the many lenses through which the value of landscape is evaluated, the lens most prevalently used is profitability. This thesis rejects that simplistic view and instead offers an alternative: evaluating a landscape via ... -
The People's Cart "One Country, Two Systems; One Public Space, Two Ideologies; One Public Sphere, Two Perspectives"
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-16)In 1842, China signed a treaty that leased Hong Kong to Great Britain for 99 years as a result of China’s loss in the Opium War and its trading of tea for opium. This agreement changed the fate and destiny of the Chinese ... -
People, Flour, Water, Salt: Bread and Community in Urban Public Space
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-25)People, Flour, Water, Salt is a proposal for re-thinking the ways in which we connect to and learn from one another in urban public space. Bread is a staple food and cultural artifact, and its production exemplifies the ... -
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 ... -
The Periscope and The Labyrinth
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-05)The Periscope and the Labyrinth is an investigation into cultural identity, consciousness and landscape rooted in the body’s experience of the city. The modern phenomenon of flânerie is used as a means of examining vari- ... -
Perpetuating Spadina Avenue: Conceptualizing the Creative Milieu
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-25)This thesis begins with Toronto’s Spadina Avenue. Admiration for its social and cultural past and present contrasts with its seemingly inevitable future; ethnically charged sections of the avenue will succumb to real estate ... -
Phantom Limb
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-13)The living interact with the dead. We live in a funerary landscape that surrounds us, that is inside us. We fold memories of the dead into the space of the living. We embrace death, even while we turn away from it. ... -
Piers, Bridges and Sheds: An architectural response to changing rural geographies and resortscapes (The case of Thornbury, Ontario)
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-31)Mass tourism is a critical agent of change, with a proven capacity of forging new landscapes and thoroughly modifying the internal structure of a community. Thornbury, a rural settlement located in South-western Ontario, ... -
Pilot Project: Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Rural Development
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-20)The outport is in the midst of great change. Twenty years since the moratorium on cod fishing, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is experiencing rapid economic development in another industrial resource boom. While ... -
A Place in the Grass
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)We reached the edge of that forgotten dock and jumped, arms raised, into knee-deep grass. We wore rubber boots, and carried a camera strung to a kite. The dock was the unfinished fragment of a bridge. After crossing a dried ... -
Play
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Adults in North American society lack the natural ability of children to play and explore their environments in a non-judgemental, non-programmed manner. The underlying theories of James Carse and Johan Huizinga examine ... -
Plug-In City Outlets: Revisioning the Form of Urban Logistics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-06)In support of a modal shift towards rail for goods movement, a reconceptualization of urban and interurban mobility frameworks leads to the proposed infrastructural fitting for the urban periphery. Keller Easterling’s ... -
The Poetics of Dwelling: China’s Courtyard Homes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-28)Dwelling is a notion that describes the feeling of returning home to utter belonging and calmness at the end of an endeavour. It is a notion that differentiates a mere shelter versus a home because we develop intimate ...