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(Un)canny Spaces: The Unbecoming of Everyday Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)Beginning in the late eighteenth century, socioeconomic changes due to rapid urbanization defined a clear demarcation between public and private realms. In opposition to the chaotic milieu of the cities, the notion of home ... -
[un] Shaded Territories: a design for women empowerment in rural Pakistan.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)The separation between Pakistan and India in 1947 was a direct result of the struggle between two different religious groups in the region; Hindus, and Muslims. Of all the provinces split, Punjab was the only one province ... -
The Unbounded School: Education Beyond the Walls
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Public education has long been a tool for state authorities to establish and indoctrinate societal moral and civic standards, a stance that has shifted in modern society. In Canada, provincial public education systems have ... -
Under a Willow Tree: Demonstrating the Use of Creative Writing in Understanding Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-02)How might our personal state of mind change how space is perceived? At a very emotionally heightened moment, like when someone is dying, how might two people standing in the same room see it differently? This is a thought ... -
An Undivided Landscape: Dissolving Apartheid buffer zones in Johannesburg, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-01)Progressive spatial segregation of Whites from other ethnic races in South Africa started in 1886. Apartheid rulers evicted three and a half million Blacks, Coloureds and Indians from white urban and residential areas ... -
Undoing Oil: Regenerative Disassembly for Copenhagen's Petrol Island
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-07)Copenhagen aims to become the first carbon neutral capital by 2025. Climate and energy crises are a concern for both the governing and the governed among Denmark’s six million people. Compared to its Nordic neighbours, the ... -
unDressing Spectacle: An Architectural Discourse on the Event of Space
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-14)Woven within fashion and dress is the innate ability to create atmosphere and transformative experiences. Architecturally, the façade of a building acts as its skin, having responsibilities that exceed the functions of ... -
Unsettling Ground: Studies on Building and Fluid Geology in Arviat, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Ground in the Canadian Arctic is continuously being shaped by the dramatic seasonal cycles of the environment, extreme weather and deep geological processes of glaciation and retreat. The stability of Northern ground is ... -
Untold History, the Museum of Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-10)From its role in the fur trade in the 17th century to the multicultural city that it is today, the City of Toronto has evolved significantly over time. This thesis attempted to build a container to recognize the city’s ... -
Urban Actuation: Public Space as a Catalyst for Urban Revitalization
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)The physical and social benefits of public space apparent to architects, landscape architects, and urban designers are endangered in many North American mid-size cities as residential, commercial and industrial development ... -
Urban Agriculture as an Agent for Social Change in London, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-28)London, Ontario was once closely tied to its local food production and distribution. Since 1835, this close connection with food was facilitated by places like the Covent Garden Market. London and many other cities were ... -
Urban Agriculture: Redefining urban communities through local growing
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-10)Abstract: In our ever changing world we must constantly look to new ways and new means. Waiting until a change is necessary for our survival is dangerous and costly. Our environment and our communities do not need to be ... -
urban blind fields: creative public reclamations
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-24)Contemporary criticism of the North American urban public realm has reached an unproductive state of exhaustion. For some time, it has painted a rather bleak portrait of public space attributed to the impacts of global ... -
Urban Design and Development of a Public Space at theCity of Kitchener’s Intermodal Transit Hub
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-15)This thesis uses a case study design approach for the proposed Transit Hub for the City of Kitchener. It focuses on opportunities for a high quality public space or square to better integrate a new urban LRT line and a ... -
Urban Pathways: Redesigning Toronto's Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-06)As an increasing proportion of the world’s population travels ever-longer distances between their home and place of work, urban mobility networks have had to cope with this dramatic increase in movement. These networks ... -
Urban Renewal as Violence: Documenting the Erasure of Wooster Square
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-18)In American urban development, a defining period known as the urban renewal era took place in the decades after the Second World War. Many cities in the United States experienced a new interest in addressing urban decay; ... -
Urban Room - Dynamic reinterpretation of Toronto’s urban voids
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-21)Over the past few decades, Toronto’s downtown core has experienced extreme and rapid intensification, seen through an exponential increase in both employees and residents. This growth has severely outpaced that of public ... -
The Value of Ornament
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)This thesis recognizes ornament as not simply an excessive accessory, but an innate human desire to imbue objects with beauty and meaning. Ornament’s prominence throughout disparate architectures regardless of culture, ... -
Variations on a Theme of Deep Time: From Geology to Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)Through the lens of deep time, this thesis draws a comparison between geology and architecture, to create an architecture of simultaneity. Using Henri Bergson’s notion of the present containing all of the past within it, ... -
VENICE OF LAGOS - Reviving the fishing culture in Makoko through Aquaponics
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Lagos, Nigeria is a rapidly growing mega-city that faces issues such as overpopulation, pollution, waste management, sanitation, poverty among a host of others. The coastal nature of Lagos causes the city to experience ...