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Salvage Montage
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-09)This thesis proposes a reinterpretation of assumptions towards material value. It is a positive argument in favour of adaptive re-use, not only as a means to divert waste but also as encouragement to reconsider our current ... -
São Paulo: An Ecological View Of A Theatre For Modernity
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Future challenges for human civilization, especially in the developing world, will increasingly be characterized by both an urban and global condition. What will be the response by design in the face of the implications ... -
SEASCRAPER: Reclaiming the Plastic Vortex Through Oceanic Stewardship and Inhabitation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Decades of humans carelessly tampering with the delicate ocean ecosystems are pushing wildlife to their breaking points, with an entire ecosystem collapse inching closer every day. My thesis will explore the known extent ... -
A Seat at My Table
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-18)At dinner, our interactions with the food, the table settings, and other diners show how we engage with the material world. Table manners and etiquette are a window into a convivial life. As a beginner potter and ... -
The Second and Third Disasters: Education in Post-Disaster Recovery in Rural Nepal
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-20)Education is widely recognized as a fundamental part of recovery process after a natural disaster. Psychologically, it provides a sense of normality by reintroducing a daily routine, helps children cope with the trauma of ... -
Second Home
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-18)This thesis proposes the design of a socially-driven building and public space located in a suburban neighborhood in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. The goal of the project is to provide an environment that assists in the ... -
The Second Line
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)A political boundary divided the City of Shenzhen in 1978. The southern portion is designated as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), while the northern region remains a part of hinterland China. The divide creates a geographical ... -
Second Skin: Painting Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-08)This thesis is a creative and conceptual inquiry into the role of surface or skin in architectural theory and practice, and the nature of its relationship to architecture’s form, structure, and depth. The surface of ... -
Seeking Renewal: The Value of Nature and Pausing in Shifting our Focus Inward
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-10)We live in a society that is overly fixated on our outer conditions and stimuli rather than our inner state, which is seen through one of the behaviours this outward focus produces, busyness. So often we choose filling ... -
Sentient Matter: Towards Affective Human-Architecture Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)Interactive design has been embedded into every aspect of our lives. Ranging from handy devices to architecturally scaled environments, these designs have not only shifted the way we facilitate interaction with other ... -
A series
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)I have written a series of abstracts — an infinite string of summaries with formal and functional resemblances — none of which ended up in my thesis. The complication was that of practicality, none of the abstracts could ... -
Shadow of the Wall
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-07)A rapid economic boom in the past decade has completely transformed China’s urban landscape into a theme park of skyscrapers. Architecture has become a means to showcase ambition and desire. Architects are forced to fit ... -
Shamanic Sequences: Gateways between the Corporeal, Virtual and Spiritual Realms
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)This thesis explores the multi-dimensional aspects of space by engaging three primary “modes of knowing”: the corporeal, the virtual and the spiritual. The crossings of these modes are investigated through the development ... -
Shanghai lilong: an intertwined relationship between the dwellers & the architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-03)The thesis investigates the lilong neighbourhoods of Shanghai, known for their high-density housing organized around narrow longtangs (alleyways), during the 1970s and 1980s. It unfolds the intertwining relationship between ... -
Shelf Life: A New Domestic Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-24)Shelf Life is a study of the domestic landscape, an investigation of domesticity -- a field that is universally relatable. It is the study of everyday life, in the most personal place to all of us: our homes. Recorded ... -
Shelf Space & Reading Room - A Spatial History of the New York Public Library
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)The New York Public Library's Central Building, constructed just over a century ago, is in the midst of a major renovation. The Library's trustees have asked the architects at Foster + Partners to imagine the space currently ... -
Shim Teo as a Social Catalyst for the Elderly of Korea
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-23)Korean society can be described as a society that is built on the idea of 'care' and ‘share’. From the centuries-old constitution which declared Korea to be a 'country embracing filial duties' and an old saying of 'respecting ... -
Singing and Making the Inflection
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-17)In my left hand I hold a thin piece of scrap wood about the length of my forearm. In my right hand, a chisel-ground knife called a kiridashi. I push the knife into the wood, and I observe the shaving extend out and curl ... -
Site Finding in a Complex Urban Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)This thesis demonstrates a working method for architectural analysis that combines manipulation of spatial data with a systematic analysis approach, configured for small-scale urban site selection in Toronto. The study ... -
Site of Emerging Memory: Ritual of Recollection in Post-Communist Sofia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)Collective memory emerges within our physical realm through material and spatial manifestations that link personal and collective conceptions of the past and present. The role of the memorial, as the primary urban element ...