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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Creek and the Garden:An insertion of Community Garden System in a Neighborhood Park along the Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-09)‘The Creek and the Garden’ is about actively preparing Toronto for the surge for gardening and food production within the city and developing a strategy to ensure the future’s growing need for urban food garden space. ... -
The Creek That is Not: A Composite Park-way at the Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)A century after the burial of Garrison Creek, Toronto continues to experience urban floods and unpleasant sewer problems as a result of the unsettling creek. And as gentrification spreads westwards in the city, the ... -
CUBAN DESIGN: Ingenuity and Resiliency to Subsist
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)Since 1959, the Cuban people have been deprived of consumer products common elsewhere due to the political and economic condition in the island, where an everlasting lack of access to basic resources prevails. Driven by ... -
Cultural Assimilation and Architecture: GuanXi and the Legacy of the Chinese Canadian Church
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)Known for priding itself as a multicultural nation, Canada's multicultural attitude does not come without a cost - as immigrants establish their roots and interact with the diverse ethnic groups within their communities, ... -
Cultural Connectivity: Design as a method to facilitate cultural exchange within the Gerrard Bazaar
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)As immigrants choose to reside within the suburbs and the city undergoes rapid geographical change, Toronto’s ethnic enclaves are facing significant transformation in terms of their neighbourhood demographics, economic ... -
Cultural Interface
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-06)Architecture can be seen as humankind’s original canvas, a primary means of cultural expression and the total, sovereign art form. Public architecture and urban public spaces, in particular, are meant to be theaters for ... -
Curating Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)The number and profile of exhibitions centred on architecture has increased dramatically in the past decade. Curating architecture can now be seen as a distinct field. In the current practice, architectural curation has ... -
Curation: Representation in the Reclamation of Sudbury, Ontario Landscapes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)An operating mine can last as many as several decades, though individual projects have an average lifespan between 15 and 20 years. (1) This is a relatively short amount of time, and may result in the misconception that ... -
Cyclades Archipelago: Regenerating the Productive and Tourism Landscapes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-29)Through history the shifting dynamics of urban and regional development in Greece’s Cyclades Archipelago shaped its overall identity and its islands’ social, economic and political cohesion. Nowadays the emerged tourism ... -
Cycle City: Generating a Cycling Culture in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-18)As Toronto’s population continues to grow, the city is faced with many new challenges related to the quality of urban life. Central to overcoming these challenges is a rethinking of urban mobility. As the region’s population ... -
Dairy Goat Research Facility: Revealing Process & Provoking Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)The dairy goat industry in Ontario is in need of benchmarking data on the raising and caring for goats resulting in better welfare and production. The power of collective data cannot be overstated to benefit and advance ... -
Dancing Architecture: The parallel evolution of Bharatanatyam and South Indian Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-05)In her book, "Indian Classical dance", Kapila Vatsyayan describes dance as the highest order of spiritual discipline, the enactment of which is symbolic of a ritual sacrifice of one's being to a transcendental order. The ... -
Dancing to the Desert: A Proposal for Self-Help Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Cities in Hot-Arid Climates
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Natural hazards kill 82,500 people globally in a typical year, with earthquakes as the largest cause of death amongst all natural hazards in Central and Southern America, East Asia, Europe, and the Near East. Damages are ... -
Darkness Encountered in Light
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)The old axiom that history is doomed to repeat itself seems to be true in the contemporary world. Ideologies of hate and division are having something of a resurgence, despite our common cries of ‘never again.’ We can trace ... -
Darkness with Shards of Light
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Realities of the world are often difficult to face. We dream of a world devoid of social ills. In the notion of 'utopia', we imagine such an environment - sparkling and full of light, but this perfect world is a delusion. ... -
Data, Debt & Daemons: Systemic Asymmetries on Spaceship Earth
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-17)Day by day, the rate at which we create new data increases exponentially. Our capacity to learn cannot keep up. We are tiny members of a vast universal network, incapable of discerning cause and effect. Instead, we develop ...