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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 ... -
The Cosmos and Four-Dimensional Geometry as seen in the Visionary Architecture of the Russian Avant-Garde
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-14)From four-dimensional geometry and philosophy to a connection with the cosmos, the intellectual tradition of the Russian avant-garde is understudied and misinterpreted in the West. This thesis reflects upon the theory of ... -
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 ... -
The Counterpublic of Union Station; An Alternative Future of Toronto's Transit Terminal
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)Though Toronto’s public spaces were conceived as spaces of discourse engendering democratic participation, today we witness their degradation into platforms of consumption. Contemporary Capitalist forces engulf the city’s ... -
Counting Carbon: Evaluating the Quality and Environmental Impacts of Design Through Product Prototyping
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)Industrialisation has brought numerous advancements to the architecture and design fields, many of which have allowed humanity to produce more efficiently, using less energy and human labour. Simultaneously, mass production ... -
Courtyard Urbanism : A Model for North American Cities?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-26)The courtyard has endured as one of the most widespread architectural forms, transcending regional, historical and cultural boundaries to mediate open and closed, inside and outside, social constraints and environmental ... -
Crafted Experiences: Weaving the Craft of Dressmaking into Retail Space
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-29)The intersection of fashion and architecture centers around the user; it is their interaction, experience, and memory that give a space meaning. With the introduction of fast fashion, clothing retail stores morphed into ... -
Creating a Future for an Ancient Sustainable City, Yazd
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-11)Abstract Sustainable architecture attempts to find a way to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by improving the use of energy and the efficiency of material used. As new and more affordable technologies ... -
the Creative Destruction of Hamilton: a Cultural approach to the Urban Regeneration of a City in Economic Transition
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Charles Darwin proclaimed, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”. At the time, he probably did not fathom the ...