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Oakland Media Library: Urban Communication Space
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-10)As North American cities experience rapid changes in demographics, communication technology, and economy, how will urban libraries continue to hold meaning and usefulness to their publics? Investigating the position of ... -
Objective Validation of Airport Terminal Architecture using Agent-based Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-25)This thesis explores how airport terminal architecture is tested before it is built. The purpose of testing is to make sure an architectural layout aligns with the rest of the airport’s systems. The design of a terminal ... -
Obus: Intent and Inhabitation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)First proposed by Le Corbusier for the city of Algiers in 1932 but never built, the Plan Obus is Le Corbusier’s ultimate city planning project. The forerunner of the megastructures projects of the 1960s, it sits squarely ... -
Of the River: Unraveling Imaginaries of Water & Resilience in Metro Manila
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Metro Manila, the Philippines’ capital, emerged from the river delta—bisected by an estuarine river and laced with rivulets. For a long time, the city embraced its wet geography and was adapted to the soak of torrential ... -
Oh The Places We'll Go: The Game of Children's Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Play is inarguably an important part of human development. Through play, children as young as three years of age learn social skills and values that will form the foundation of their development in to adult life. Children ... -
On [Re]building Downtown: Design Framework for the Core Area
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)Rapid condominium development in Toronto is consuming large areas of the ground plane in prominent corridors of the downtown core. This is the most popular development practice for Mixed-Use land use in Toronto. It is ... -
On Chinese Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2006)From the four-thousand-year obsession with timber structures to the radical fascination of steel and glass in recent decades, in a Westerner's eye, Chinese architecture evolves either too slow or too fast. The current ... -
On Common Grounds
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Canada’s housing market has been unaffordable, inaccessible, and commodified for a long time. Due to the ever-increasing real-estate prices and critical housing shortages, there has been an elevated need for more alternative ... -
On Luxury
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-29)Indulgent and desirable, luxury both boasts and seduces. Luxury is an elaboration on the essential, manifest in forms of etiquette and exclusion. Films index both reality and fantasy. They reflect, denounce, and ... -
On Making
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)Grasping the wooden handle of a dozukime saw with both hands, I make a rip-cut into a block of eastern white pine, leaving behind a 1/64-inch wide kerf. I am cutting a dovetail: a wood joint developed over five-thousand ... -
On Reading, Anxiety and Water: A Sanatorium on the Toronto Portlands
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The thesis is comprised of three essays and a design project of a fictional sanatorium and attached public park for the Toronto Portlands. The project basically pursues a sense of architectural place that is most clearly ... -
On Resurfacing: A Case for a Cultural Renaissance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Globalization and the advancement of technology have made the world smaller. Boundaries that define nations and nationalities have blurred and the resulting sense of displacement has undermined assumptions of identity and ... -
On the Border: an architectural inquiry into the sacred and quotidian
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-19)Even in our secular age, the sacred continues to be a powerful cognitive space in the landscape of the imagination. I am a Roman Catholic and amongst those who struggle to exist both in the structured universe of the sacred, ... -
On the Border: Antagonistic Architectures | Evanescent Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-04)The Northern Pass | El Paso del Norte spills through the narrow Rio Grande Valley that separates the southern most extent of the Rocky Mountains from the Sierra Madres, dividing the bi-national metropolis of El Paso, Texas ... -
ON THE EDGE OF THIRD SPACE: A Re-imagination of the Refugee Camp Boundaries
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-24)This thesis explores the pivotal moment in which a refugee camp transcends its original temporary purpose. Central to this exploration is the intersections of architecture and citizenship practices in politically grey ... -
On the Path to Material Re-Use: Navigating the complexity of material sustainability for architectural practice
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-20)The aim of this thesis was to understand how to define sustainability holistically, and how architecture can contribute to holistic sustainability by way of its material form. I conducted a literature review of definitions ... -
On The Precipice Of Change
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-18)Situated centrally, two blocks north of People’s Square, in Zhabei District of Shanghai, China, Sihang Warehouse is a place steeped in time. In 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War, when this building was still one of ... -
On the Verge: Activating Public Space in the Periphery
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)This thesis examines the suburban verge’s latent potential as an alternative public space. It is located between the boundaries of private properties and public streets, where territorial boundaries and ownership are ... -
On Walking
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-03)Imagine the anatomy of architecture as a complex system, where the form is the result of generative processes, the material properties of the components, and their patterns of assembly. Within this paradigm, surface is ... -
On Yonge Street
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)Yonge Street is a unique urban resource for the City of Toronto. It acts as the central nervous system uniting local, suburban and out-of-town populations with both surface and underground networks. It has transformed to ...