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Doubling and Desire
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)This thesis proposes that an investigation into the phenomenon of doubling may engage architecture with a type of desire that has deep rooted connections with the complexities of human nature, with the very human condition ... -
Dreaming Space: Exploring the Transformative Power of Immersive Art and Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)The role of art is to transform our experience of reality. This process often involves a quality of rupture; of breaking through the boundaries of our habitual, conditioned modes of perception in order to experience new ... -
Dreams in a Northern Landscape: The Reoccupation of Canada's North
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)The vision for this work first sprung from Farley Mowat’s book, Canada North Now, in which Mowat questions why Canada’s north has never been used for animal husbandry despite having the capacity for such a use. Harvey ... -
Dreams of Slaughter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)A descent into the ravine is a step through a tear in urbanity. The terrain vague is a foil to the capitalist city; against a demand for order, specificity, and integration, it is disorienting, banal, erratic. Operating ... -
Drifting Outside of the City
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-27)There are spaces in Toronto where the city’s grid is forced to give way. Remnants of outdated infrastructure, deep geographic indentations, and natural elements appear, disrupting the constraints that govern our urban ... -
Driverless Car Transit Hub
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-24)The world is moving towards automation, and manual labour is quickly becoming obsolete to avoid unnecessary human error in complex processes. As an example of this evolution, in twenty to thirty years, a new era of driverless ... -
Dwelling In Motion: Reinterpreting Flinders Street Station as Urban Public Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia currently serves a dual purpose, providing both a transient space that links the city to its suburban roots and creating a physical barrier between the city and its watercourse. ... -
Dwellings for the Goryan: Re-crafting Bulgarian Post-Soviet Identity at the Site of the Friendship Monument
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-18)My interest begins in present day Bulgaria at the prominent site of a ruined Soviet monument which the country’s previous communist regime built in 1979. Their monuments expressed communist philosophy through their ... -
DYNAMIC VISUALIZATIONS: Developing a Framework for Crowd-Based Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Since its conception in the 1960s, digital computation has experienced both exponential growth in power and reduction in cost. This has allowed the production of relatively cheap electronics, which are now integrated ... -
Echoes of decolonization | From North Africa to Europe: questioning the trip back home
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-26)The Colonial Modern enterprise in North Africa produced unique architectural responses in the twentieth century, oscillating between rupture with the past and continuity of the tradition, negotiation of indigenous expression ... -
Echoes of Industry: Reinterpreting Artifacts of the Lachine Canal
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once the cradle of Canadian industry, is now riddled with industrial ruins, testaments to its productive past. Since the canal’s closing in the 1970’s, different attempts were made to reinterpret ... -
Ecological Infrastructures - Reconnecting The Fragments of Garrison Creek through Four Frameworks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-21)Garrison Creek is one of many ravines along Toronto’ s waterfront which have undergone numerous transformations since the establishment of Toronto as a city. Accelerated urbanization of the downtown core and waste dumping ... -
The Economic Case for Sustainable Design
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)This thesis considers the potential of engaging the development community as a primary means of solving the environmental crisis. Specifically, it addresses how the principles of sustainable design can be incorporated into ... -
Ecstatic Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-17)The chant shakes the crowd, uncorking the energy of the masquerade. This is our stomping ground. Nothing can hold us back. We display ourselves, we play ourselves. Uncontrolled bodies pelt rhythmically. Bouncing backsides, ... -
Embedded Boundaries
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-18)This thesis is an investigation of landscape as boundary: a study of its formation, inhabitation, and symbolic meaning. The study is situated in a valley located south of Jerusalem’s Old City walls; known as both Gei ... -
Embodied Depth: Re-interpreting the Park in St.James Town
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)The thesis reflects on the loss of slowness and experiential depth in the age of acceleration. The “contrived depthlessness” of modernity – as described by Frederic Jameson– can be traced back to contemporary culture’s ... -
Embracing or Not Enclosing
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-18)"The simultaneously archaic and hypermodern “archetypal fact” of twenty first century architecture and urbanism will be the enclosure, the wall, the barrier, the gate, the fence, the fortress." -Lieven De Cauter, The ... -
Emergent Hybridity, Cyborgs in Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-04)This thesis examines architectural test-beds as an experimental and contemporary mode of creating architecture that realizes the potential of many of the connections and complexities found in living systems. It builds on ... -
Emphasize the Gap! Towards a Žižekian Definition of Critical-Emancipatory Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)Confronted with issues, whose (socioeconomic) causes cannot be resolved through the modification of the built environment, architectural interventions may often inadvertently aid the reproduction of the problems they seek ... -
Empowering Architecture: Citizen Participation in the Design of Urban Public Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-10)As our contemporary cities continue to revitalize, redefine, and reassert themselves on an international scale, public spaces provide an opportunity to lend the sense of place which makes cities unique and compelling. ...