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Beyond Genius Loci: An Analysis of Architectural Design Strategies of Place
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-17)This thesis explores the contributive role of the genius locus, or “spirit of place”, in the identity of cities and the production of meaningful places. The research addresses the analysis of genius loci as historical ... -
Beyond Shelters: An Urban Based Model to Alleviate Homelessness
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-16)The historic connection between homelessness and severe economic depression has disappeared as a shortage of affordable decent housing prevails even during periods of strong economic growth. New factors such as the ... -
Beyond the Minimum: A Durable Emergency Shelter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-17)The number of states requiring humanitarian assistance after a disaster has doubled every decade since 1960. Extreme weather like flooding and violent storms associated with climate change are predicted to continue to ... -
Beyond Utility: Analyzing Unseen Infrastructures of Necromobility
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-06)The year 2020 was unprecedented on varying accounts but will undoubtedly be remembered by a global pandemic bringing the world to a shuddering halt. As nations scrambled to flatten the outbreak’s curve, the virus tested ... -
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 ... -
bicycle factory » a post-post-Fordist urban intervention
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-24)Cities were once filled with bicycles and factories—urban typologies now regarded as anachronistic elements of the landscape, as their relationship to the built environment evolved throughout the Industrial Revolution, ... -
Block 1: Refiguring the Post-Industrial Ruin or Bridging Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Haldimand Tract
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)In an ever expanding and quickening world, heritage has become a vestige of authenticity, identity, and placemaking. In a settler colonial country its ties to ideas of inheritance, birthright, and patrimony, complicate ... -
Bodies in Parallax: Reframing the Cultural Experience of Miami Beach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-26)Parallax is integral to the conception of movement in modern architectural space. This research examines the role of architectural parallax in creating dynamic spaces that champion the primacy of perception to reinforce ... -
Body and Mind Shaped by Built Form: Experiences of Borobudur
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-21)This thesis takes the form of a pilgrimage to the Buddhist temple of Borobudur in Indonesia to explore the relationship between spiritual practices and physical space, in particular analyses the relationships between ... -
Body Builder
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-25)My thesis is a critical essay thematically focused on the fate of the body in the postmodern condition. In this thesis a fundamental question is posed: What happens to the (postmodern) body under the double pressure of ... -
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 ... -
The Break
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-07)Through surfing man enters the domain of the wave, is contained by and participates in its broadcast, measures and is in turn measured, meets its rhythm and establishes his own, negotiates continuity and rupture. The ... -
Breaking Through the Monopoly City: A Game of Urban Agriculture Played Through Fissures in Industrial Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Games have been used throughout the world’s cultures to teach and influence ideas of urban space and planning while also arguing that in the future of sustainable cities architectural development of urban land should ... -
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. ... -
Brick: A Story of Construction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Brick. A simple object, but one that has been a base unit of architecture for over 6000 years. It carries connotations of labour, of energy, of the fundamental desire of humanity to give form to the substance of the Earth. ... -
Building a Parc de la langue française / Retracing my steps as a designer
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)In 1979, Québec artist Rober Racine wrote a 190-word text that would describe his idea for Le Parc de la langue française, a landscape where one could literally meander through the French language. Although some partial ... -
Building Big: Spanning Urban Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)This thesis addresses the issue of urban fracture caused by transport infrastructure, through the design of a tenable, multi-program building with robust structural spans, as well as opportunities for the transient ... -
Building Collaboration, Building Community: A Home for Northern Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Building Collaboration, Building Community: A Home for Northern Learning explores the potential for architecture to support learning endeavors in the Canadian North. Informed by traditional approaches to northern learning ... -
Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)A person does not experience architecture as a purely physical construct. Lived space transcends mere materiality, as each individual experiences the world outside oneself through the unique filter of one’s own mind. In ... -
Building in Puma
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-18)It is proven that sustainable development only occurs when ideas and resources are locally adapted; however, many conventional development approaches ignore local voices and treat them merely as passive consumers. Today, ...