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Ab Condita
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Time and structure; expectation and construction; landscape and architecture; history and myth. The foundation is a joint which carries extraordinary potential to speak of the cultures that built it. This ... -
Across the River: A Library Reflected
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)The thickening line crafted as a ‘temporary’ border thirteen years ago during the Dayton Peace Agreement –dividing Bosnia into Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosniaks and Croats- is gaining an unsettling permanence ... -
Activating Play-Based Escape, Awakening Creativity
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Everyone participates in escape. The drive to escape is something we are born with. It is a force that has ties to our curiosity, as well as our profound psychological restlessness, and can even be seen in our displeasure ... -
Adaptive Balconies: An Open Design System for Housing Tower Renewal at 545-565 Sherbourne Street, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)This investigation is based on the renovation and reconsideration of residential tower neighbourhoods, and speculates an open design system as an alterna- tive to current practices prevalent across the city of Toronto. The ... -
The Adventures of Goat
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-09)This is a story about a Goat, who is an Animated & a Talking Goat, unusually, for an Architect. There are also other Talking Animals, such as a Moose, a Butterfly by the name of Bill, a Beaver, and a Jackalope—the Jackalope ... -
AERO|ASTRO Architecture: the hybridizing frontier of emergent industries
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Architectural designers often need to strike an uneasy balance between idealism and reality. Under most circumstances, architects are restricted by clients, budgets, and available technologies. However, divorced from ... -
Affirming Bodies
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-22)The fitness space ranges in shape and size, from gyms, health clubs to yoga studios spread across the globe, symbolizing an ongoing fitness revolution that has grown and expanded over the past century. Fitness values vary ... -
Affordable Housing for the Future
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-16)Affordable housing is currently a hot topic amongst communities across Canada. The housing crisis commenced shortly after 1993 when the government withheld funding for new projects. Since 2001, a new Canada-provincial ... -
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 ... -
After the City
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-10)This thesis is an anthology of stories, mappings, photographs, and thoughts about Detroit. It is an analysis of the post-metropolis, the most modern city in the world, and the events and convulsions that have brought it ... -
AGRARIA: An agrarian vision
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)This thesis is concerned with reconnecting people to the land. It has been developed as a reaction to the current environmental crises concerning peak oil, urban sprawl, and the ongoing opposition between humans and the ... -
Agricultural Temples in the Iberian Landscape, Larders from the Past
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)The Galician hórreo is a traditional rural building of Northern Spain used for desiccation and conservation of cereal grains. This detached building provides natural ventilation, an unfavourable environment for biotic ... -
Agritecture: Woven Lea Farm
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-29)This thesis is a design of a sustainable family farm within the context of drastic changes is rural areas over the past century and the coming changes of the future century. The design explores the integration of farm ... -
The Aleatoric Milieu: An Architectural Theory on Proxemics and Navigation Design
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)The Aleatoric Milieu is an architectural theory that combines the space people require to feel at ease and natural wayfinding. By investigating how buildings and cities naturally possess or have been observed to develop ... -
Algae Textile: A Lightweight Photobioreactor for Urban Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-17)By innovating the photobioreactor, the growth of algae can be deployed as a performative and ecological layer within contemporary building systems. Proposed is an algae textile: a building–integrated photobioreactor organized ... -
Alternate Public Spaces for Tehran: Reimagining the City’s Leftover Fragments
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)Public spaces are publicly owned spaces where people may interact freely with other citizens. A public place promotes social interactions and creates tolerance for diverse interests and behaviours. But in Tehran, many ... -
The Ambitious City: Stimulating Change through the Urban Artifact
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-12)In the late twentieth century, global economic forces changed the face of many North American cities. Cities which were built upon industry, that had provided both job certainty and economic vitality, faced questions of ... -
Amphibious Architectures: The Buoyant Foundation Project in Post-Katrina New Orleans
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-21)This is a research-based thesis building upon the study conducted over the past two years with Dr. Elizabeth English on the Buoyant Foundation Project (BFP). The BFP is currently developing an amphibious foundation system ... -
Anatolian Regional Modernism A Proposal for Regional Residential Prototypes for Black Sea, Cappadocia and Aegea
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Located at the convergence point of European and Asian continents, Anatolia has been a melting pot of cultures, peoples, and architecture. Traveling through the land, one can witness a wide spectrum of history on display, ... -
ANIMA ÜRBEM
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-18)In 1916 the macrocosmic tensions of global conflict became focused on the microcosm of Berlin, Ontario. The nationalistic turmoil of the First World War incited a series of destructive events resulting in a schism within ...