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A Commons For Resistance
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)Oakland’s housing crisis is starkly visible. In recent years, the tech boom in Silicon Valley has drastically increased costs of living in the Bay Area. Many workers from San Francisco and the peninsula have relocated ... -
Community-Park-Systems as Tools of Healing and Reconnection -Addressing the Liminal Condition of Parks in the City & The Marginalization of Special Needs Groups in Society
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-20)This thesis looks at re-investing the landscape with community and environmental purpose, by bringing ‘infrastructure’ into the realm of ‘public works’, focusing on two community issues, that are demonstrative of a general ... -
Complexity & Community — Designing Social Intricacy in Urban Neighborhoods
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-07)Over the last few decades, urban growth in Canada has shifted from continuous expansion of the urban periphery to the more complex layering of the urban centre. This change gives rise to a need to reassess our understanding ... -
A Computational Design System for Environmentally Responsive Urban Design
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)This thesis introduces a design tool that attempts to optimize urban energy needs through the mass-customization of urban typology. Developing low-energy, high-density urban typology is a critical goal for cities given ... -
Condominium Towers: Habitus and alienation in the new urban framework
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-26)Since 2002, over 180000 new dwellings have been built in Toronto through condominium ownership, filling the downtown core with towers and locking much of the city’s society into a relatively new model of property ownership ... -
Connecting Suburbia: Using Information and Communication Technologies to Readjust the Suburban House
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-17)The North American suburban house is continually changing, a byproduct of cultural and technological development. Within the past hundred years, the house has experienced countless iterations in design as new technologies ... -
The Conscious Landscape: Reinterpreting and Reinhabiting the La Colle Falls Hydro Dam
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)The ruins of the La Colle Falls Hydro Dam encompass two very distinct topographies: the physical landscape of the vast Canadian Northwest, and the complex emotional terrain of the urban mythology of the city of Prince ... -
Consider The Kayak
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)With ignorant disdain towards the progression of globalization, I adopt the plastic kayak as a microcosm of the cultural ethos in the design of our surroundings. To counter the abundant mass manufactured kayak, I am ... -
Considering the surface: writings on people, occasion, space and place
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)The following collection of writings reflects on people, occasion, space and place. Together, the writings explore how we might respond to and design for human presence. The human figure, as used in architectural representation, ... -
Constructing Our Environments: A Material Comparison
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-12)Our built environment is constantly adapting to changing factors: technology, the state of the economy, material resource availability, and, in turn, environmental conditions. The latter has gained notable importance in ... -
Construction Management Project Delivery Method: A Case Study of the Centre Block Rehabilitation Project
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-19)Buildings are no longer solely designed and the building of them overseen by architects during their construction. In a slow evolution over decades, the overall building process has transformed into a collaborative design ... -
Contact and Continuity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-23)Wayfinding. Embodied Learning. Craft Culture. That material can harbour life inspires careful consideration of the craft of building. Building is the agency of architecture; material—its medium. The act of building ... -
Contemplating a New Danwei Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Market-driven Capitalist urbanization is no longer a viable option for China as it has produced increasingly monotonous and segregated cities that deny culture, history, ecology, and human connection. Cultural efficiencies ... -
A Contemplation on the Ideal Built Environment of Ethical Tourism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)This thesis gives an overview and seeks to establish a framework for creating the built environments that would support an ethical and environmentally aware global counterculture in travel and tourism. It seeks to advocate ... -
Contemplative Space: Design for Generative Parametric Tessellations Applied to a Shell Structure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-21)This thesis focuses on surface articulation of a shell structure constructed through a generative, parametric, modular design process. The shell form uses vault topology that adapts to varying site conditions such as ... -
Contesting Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)After Israel’s triumphant victory over its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War, the State immediately began a policy of territorial seizure in the newly occupied areas. Tracing these seizure practices, their supporting ... -
Continuing the Narrative of Silo No. 5
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)Every modern city faces the challenge of how to engage the remains of its industrial past. Consciously or unconsciously, post-industrial cities have experienced a type of identity crisis after the decline of industries. ... -
CORNWALL and the POST-INDUSTRIAL SEAWAY LANDSCAPE: Localized Agency After Absolute Authority
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-09)In the 1950s the Ontario city of Cornwall was the site of a massive industrial infrastructural project, the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway Project was a modernist dream intended to spur development of an industrial ... -
Cosmographia Metallica
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-20)In his book The Living Rock, historian A.J. Wilson writes, “The history of metals is the history of civilization”. From its beginnings in simple toolmaking, to modern-day machinery and weapons, the development of metallurgy ... -
Counterculture Plan for the Creative City: A Critique of Patterns of Flexibility and Fixity in Toronto's Cultural Renaissance
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Between the years 2000 and 2010, the City of Toronto experienced an unprecedented spike in cultural construction. This building boom, ushered in by Toronto’s “Culture Plan for the Creative City” and dubbed “Toronto’s ...