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A Home for Urban Families: An Alternative Approach to Housing in Downtown Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)As prices of single family homes rapidly increase in Toronto, many families are faced with a challenging dilemma: move beyond the city’s peripheries to where house prices are lower, or remain within the city and attempt ... -
The Home is a Place for Living: Fifteen Conversations About Inhabitation, Adaptation, and the Rehabilitation of Toronto’s Post-War Apartment Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Toronto is home to one of North America’s largest stock of postwar residential towers, which house nearly a million people in over a thousand towers across the GTHA. Built throughout the postwar population and economic ... -
Home Reconfigured: Adaptability as a solution in Mumbai to help people stay in place
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)With the continuously rising employment, businesses, investments, and consequently migration, the housing prices of Mumbai have skyrocketed over the past few decades. The house bought on a mortgage, or rented at cheap rates ... -
A Home Then, A Home Now
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Hong Kong Canadians remember, inhabit, and imagine their homes to develop a process for positioning transnational belonging within the built environment. In response to discriminatory migration and ... -
HORIZON
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-22)This thesis proposes the design of a space exploration vessel capable of sustaining a community of 2000 inhabitants that will leave Earth and never return. The unique mission criteria will allow for the in depth study of ... -
Hospital
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)The former Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto was a sight in need of little description: beyond the fenced property, the building, recognizably a postwar hospital, uncaringly dismantled its red brick and regularly spaced ... -
The House of Matter
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)Everything falls apart, but some materials do it with a specific panache, and once design leaves paper to be built, no project is complete until it falls. As creatures subject to time, we identify with things in which we ... -
A House of No Importance: The rise and fall of Nasr City’s middle class extended family houses
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)Since its urban boom around the mid 1980s, the Cairene residential district of Nasr City has been the hub for a unique housing phenomenon. It has seen middle class professionals appropriating its apartment building typologies ... -
The House of Ontario: Restoring Meaning and Identity to Queen's Park
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)“It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed ... -
House of Reconciliation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-23)The signing of the Ta'if Agreement on October 22, 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the divisive and destructive Lebanese Civil War that had raged since 1975. The war was finally ended in March 1991, when the new ... -
The House of Uncommon Grounds
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-09)Demographically open public spaces provide valuable grounds for engaging diverse ideologies. While the rise of society and passive consumption of mass culture excludes “action” and “speech” from the public realm and threatens ... -
a House to be Home
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Architecture exists in context. Buildings are designed for, and exist in, a place and time. The vast majority must adhere to a relative strict set of construction, regulatory, and cultural considerations; all of them are ... -
House(Craft): Mobile Housing for a New Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-14)We have been called the “entitled” generation. We want to be your boss before we’ve stepped through the door. We grew up in the Internet Age; being told we were special, unique, and capable of anything we wanted. We are ... -
Housing for an Emerging Middle Class: Rethinking the Development of Military Bases in Metro Manila
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-20)A shortage of affordable housing in Metro Manila, Philippines, has become an issue for those who work in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. While this housing shortage has existed since World War 2, the ... -
Housing Urbanism_Living With Neighbours
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)My thesis explores how new social relationships can be reinforced by architectural spaces in residential projects in today’s complex, cross-cultural, political, and economic urban conditions. In Toronto, some newer types ... -
How Should We Live: An Alternative Process of Land Development for Chinese Villages
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-15)A class of migrant workers in China that have left their official rural residence in search of work and wealth in the more developed coastal cities have created a new process of urbanization. The ‘floating population’ ... -
Hunting For: Lessons on Architecture in Cree Territory
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)Canada’s subarctic region of James Bay, extending from the southeastern rim of the greater Hudson’s Bay, is seated at the interface of diametrically opposed climates, cultures, geologies, and ecologies. With the European ... -
Hurry Up and Wait: Spatial Strategies for Urban Stress Relief
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-21)In the midst of rising urban density and its projected impacts on infrastructures and city dwellers alike, the importance of understanding the effects of built space on our biology and mental well-being is becoming essential ... -
Hybrid Bivouac: High-Modulus Composite Membranes for Portable Shelters
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-27)This thesis explores an iterative modelling and fabrication process for fibre-based composites through the design of a lightweight, portable shelter for backpacking and mountaineering. Existing tent typologies compromise ... -
Hybrid Human Agency: A Teleodynamic Socio-Spatial Interaction Model for Emergent Human Agency Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-22)People relate with one another in space and through imagined and technologically mediated networks. This thesis is concerned with the relationship between these two types of social connections – spatial and network. ...