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A Giant's Quiet Decay: The Latency of Superior North
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)What happens after a place has been exploited, isolated, and neglected? What occurs when that place is bound – confined – by impenetrable voids of dereliction? Its core, slowing diffracting, with no opportunity to ... -
The Girl in the Wood Frock
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)A GIRL, forced to marry her father after he sees her playing in his dead wife’s wedding gown, runs away wearing five dresses. Four dresses are of silk and they are beautiful. The last dress is of wood. It is in this ... -
Globalization, Multiculturalism and the Evolution of Suburban Toronto, Richmond Hill Iranian Community
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-15)Canadian cities and their built form will continue to evolve as they are affected, by trends in globalization and its consequent mobilization of populations in mass immigration. This thesis investigates the impact on the ... -
Globe Park: Hybridizing Cultural, Ecological, and Industrial Spaces on Hamilton's Bayfront Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-26)Applying complex ecosystems theory, this thesis maps and analyzes the codependency of ecological and manufacturing flows affecting cities, the landscape, and the environment. Learning from this analysis, a prototype for a ... -
Grading Light: Utilizing plastic deformation to functionally grade ceramic light screens
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)When interacting with light, surface geometries and clay bodies can work together to heighten the perception of depth and alter illumination. This thesis investigates how clay 3D printing can generate materially responsive ... -
Grading Light: Utilizing plastic deformation to functionally grade ceramic light screens
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)When interacting with light, surface geometries and clay bodies can work together to heighten the perception of depth and alter illumination. This thesis investigates how clay 3D printing can generate materially responsive ... -
Grafting Maple with Cedar
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Canada’s metaphor for integrating immigrants is the mosaic —vividly colored pieces of ethnicity, culture, racial identity, and language planted side by side, and in contrast to the melting pot of the American states, ... -
The Grange Hotel: Everyday Leisure in the Grange Neighbourhood
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)The modern metropolis offers a wide variety of experiences to enrich our everyday life. Beyond meeting our daily needs, such a rich and diverse city is a complex system of urban phenomena that also satisfies our need for ... -
Greater Toronto Chinese Downtown
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-13)Greater Toronto Chinese Downtown (GTCD) is the largest Chinese Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area and one of the world’s most unique Chinese diasporic cities outside of Asia. Created by the sudden influx of ... -
Green
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-06)We insist upon “green space”, but the term’s vague cast brings little into focus. In this thesis I search out what it is that we look for in green space. I consider some ways, within our North American context, that we ... -
Green Infrastructure and the Sustainable Metropolitan Village
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)The current model of suburban development in Canadian cities has serious consequences for the natural environment. The ubiquitous landscape of sprawl consumes excessive amounts of greenfield land and natural resources, ... -
The Green Scare: Radical environmental activism and the invention of "eco-terrorism" in American superhero comics from 1970 to 1990
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)American environmentalism became a recognizable social movement in the 1960s. In the following two decades the movement evolved to represent a diverse set of philosophies and developed new protest methods. In the early ... -
GREY TO GREEN 13 GATES TO THE GREENBELT
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-21)The Greenbelt was created by the Government of Ontario in 2005 to protect working farms, wetlands, natural habitats, woods and river valleys that surround the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Its vast 8000 square kilometers ... -
Grid + Ghost
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-21)The thesis begins with a notion to design a school of architecture in Saskatchewan. The context, at first, appears overwhelmingly basic: an agricultural grid superimposed on a horizontal plain, under an endless sky. This ... -
A Guide for Foreign Trained Newcomer Architects: Identifying barriers to re-licensure in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-19)Canada has a reputation of maintaining a positive outlook on immigration and prides itself on the belief that its doors are open to individuals all around the world. Canada’s government welcomes a diverse number of immigrants ... -
Guiding the Grand: Journeying into the Grand River's Diverse Histories
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)The Grand River is a dynamic force that acts on and within the landscape of its watershed. Through the course of an eleven-thousand-year relationship with humanity, its identity has evolved most dramatically in the last ... -
Hack: Reclaiming the Commons
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-03)Architecture is an act of agency, and a technology that can be learned by anyone for their own purpose. It evolved as a system of organization and a protective shell for our fragile bodies, a vast, complex technology that ... -
Hants County, 45º6’10”N 63º44’2”W
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)How can regionalism and modern building practices synthesize to develop a localized building culture? While regionally conscientious modern architecture demands efficiency, sustainable resource equilibrium may be the ... -
Happiness within the Uncanny: Revitalizing the Street Level in Hong Kong's New Town
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Hong Kong is the physical embodiment of neoliberalism at all levels of society, and the city itself is seen as a domain for private corporations to generate profit, creating spaces that are purely functional and generic. ... -
Healing Through Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Numerous studies show evidence of the body’s ability to “self-heal” when put into positive healing environments. This healing is enabled by the ability of the body to ‘tap into our internal pharmacies’ by activating the ...