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Encountering the Waterlands: Stories of Environment, Animals and Architecture in the Ahiak
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)In spring of 2019, I travelled through Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut to the Ahiak (Queen Maud Gulf) Migratory Bird Sanctuary for a five-week volunteer position studying populations of migratory geese. In this ... -
Energy and Matter: The design of a nature centre, tunnel, and neutrino observatory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)Neutrino physics proposes radical new conceptions of matter. Contemplating the extraordinary and mysterious nature of neutrinos in architectural terms, Energy and Matter considers the ideas and implications of this exciting ... -
ENFRAMED.
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Contemporary architectural discourse commonly invokes the term framing. Derivative phrases contrived in education and practise are seemingly inexhaustible: framing the view, framing space, framing an idea, frame of ... -
Engaging Mycelium: explorations of a cultivated architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)This thesis presents a material investigation into understanding the architectural value of a biologically grown, fungal-based fabrication method. By utilizing the natural growth patterns of fungal mycelium, this ... -
Envisioning a Future City with Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)The evolution and formation of our urban fabric have an inextricable relationship with transportation and urban mobility. The revolution in speed and power of transportation as a result of the automobile in the early ... -
Envisioning sustainable forestry communities in Northern Ontario: the role of architecture and design
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-16)This thesis envisions sustainable forestry communities in Northern Ontario. Forestry communities struggle to maintain a quality of life against obstacles such as external (often global) economic pressures on the community’s ... -
Envisioning the Downtown - The Design of Third Places to Revitalize Town-Gown Downtowns
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-28)This thesis redefines the typology of Third Places and the design considerations that influence envisioning downtown revitalization of mid-size cities that are embracing a town-gown partnership. The exercise ultimately ... -
Ephemeral Embraces: milkweed fibres from land to body
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-24)Garments historically originate from organic fibres harvested from the Earth, however the visual and physical qualities of materials and their origins are not typically foregrounded in modern garment architecture. This ... -
Erosion: Desiging with Materiality in Impermanent Landscapes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-17)sing the Buddhist notion that we conceive of time through observing change, this thesis attempts to answer the question ‘how can we create the sensation of time in architecture?’ It is important to acknowledge the fact ... -
The Essence of Objects and Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-16)Every substance in the universe has its own identity that defines what it is. The essence is the property that entity and object have by necessity, without which, it loses its nature. This research aims to explore the idea ... -
Establishing a Foothold: An Economic, Social and Cultural Model of Integration for New Canadians
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)With Canada’s rapidly aging population and low birth rate, immigration is critical to the future of the country and Toronto, as a gateway city and one of the most multicultural and multiracial cities in the world, is a ... -
Evocative Infrastructure: An Urban Cave at Yonge-Eglinton Station
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-15)The transition below grade demarcates a portal into a different realm. Underground architecture calls for a unique approach to design. This thesis is interested in looking at underground architecture through a phenomenological ... -
Evolving the Urban Dwelling
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)In examining the Canadian residential fabric, this thesis advocates for the design of urban dwellings which respond directly to a number of contemporary urban challenges. A number of these challenges stem from the largely ... -
Execution of Architecture / Architecture of Execution or The Persistence of Collective Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2006)"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. " ~Franz Kafka This thesis deals with a subject matter which may be considered by some to be undesirable and taboo; that is, the architecture of capital ... -
Expanded Enclosure: Utilizing Conditioned Micro - Climates and Spaces to Develop Gradated Envelopes
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-04)Architecture is more often than not in the habit of creating spaces separated by generally impermeable partitions that give occupants a high level of control - whether it is directed at achieving shelter, privacy, etc.... ... -
Expanding Space: Redefining Persian Cultural Hubs in Toronto through Interactive Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-18)Persian communities in Toronto use certain public spaces as a group. One of the less obvious, but interesting, spaces that serve as cultural hubs for these communities are strip malls. These cultural- commercial spaces ... -
Experiences with Prefabrication and Habitat for Humanity
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-12)This thesis chronicles my experiences with developing a panelized wall system for use by Habitat for Humanity and with testing that system in the design and construction of a house. Presented as a series of narratives, it ... -
An Exploration into Biomimicry and its Application in Digital & Parametric [Architectural] Design
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Biomimicry is an applied science that derives inspiration for solutions to human problems through the study of natural designs, systems and processes. This thesis represents an investigation into biomimicry and includes ... -
Explorative Making
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)This thesis asserts the notion of play and intuition are valuable resources within architectural design. The thesis further proposes a conceptual model of making that harnesses and integrates play, intuition, and other ... -
Exploring The Underground City
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)The inception of Montreal’s underground displayed significant inventiveness in striving for a multi-level city, however today the urban network has developed into an overly-commercialized, perfunctory series of ‘unfelt’ ...