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Mudzi Owala, Village of Light – Lessons from Malawi
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)This thesis explores my journey to a small corner of Africa, where I lived with and learned from the communities of rural Malawi. In particular, it examines the architectural lessons that emerged from my involvement in a ... -
Museum of Contemporary Art Gateway Sculpture Garden
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-20)This thesis comprises a design for a garden that serves as a gateway to the new cultural hub of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in the Junction Triangle, Toronto. This contribution aims to capitalize on the cultural ... -
My Other Eyes that See, My Other Ears that Hear
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-22)Disability is a part of the human condition and has existed since the beginning of time, yet the vast majority of people with disabilities are still expected to live in a built environment designed for what society has ... -
The N-Dimensional City: Establishing a Vitality Driven Framework for Volumetric Building Networks Through Parametric Design
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)The architectural concept of a city within a city, or a three-dimensional urban realm, aims to engage the public and bring the vitality of the city into the building. This concept often manifests in the form of grade-separated ... -
Nala: In Search of a Way
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-16)Bound within two units in a strip of industrial warehouses, the Hindu temple of my youth is a compromise of the ancient to the Canadian. A temple birthed by necessity, it exists in a state of purgatory, doomed to be abandoned ... -
A Nation of Imaginaries: Negotiating India’s Collective Identity through Mughal Miniatures
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)India is a nation of imaginaries. Through time, the subcontinent has been captivated by mystical and profane conceptions of collective identity which have inspired hope, fear, and belonging. Since 2014, the nation has been ... -
Natural Grieving, a Method of Preservation: Implementing Natural Burials in Ontario’s Greenbelt
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-10)We experience an incredible amount of emotion when death touches our lives. With death comes the complexity of loss and grief. The spaces of death, from the morgue, the funeral home to the cemetery, are significant components ... -
Nature Nurtures: Architectural Greenery Systems to Support Healing in Canadian Hospitals
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)How can living plant systems be combined with healthcare facility architecture to increase beneficial interactions with nature, while still maintaining healthcare standards of safety, efficiency, and control? Nature can ... -
The Nature of Healing: Living Architecture for Long Term Care & Rehabilitation Hospitals
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Healthcare interiors are perceived as stressful and isolating spaces; endured during times of vulnerability causing stress for patients, visitors and staff. This thesis examines studies, which prove that this psychological ... -
NATUS • CULTUS • CIVIS: A Holistic Community Plan for the Beausoleil First Nation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)Sustainability is not a contemporary concept, rather it was a guiding principle all cultures lived by to maintain balance with the natural world and more importantly survive. Evidently architecture was a tangible expression ... -
Navigating Loss
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-08)This thesis explores the realm of death and loss through architecture. I question how architecture can facilitate a healing process beyond customary spaces like a cemetery, memorial, or temple, and how the raw emotions ... -
Navigating through peaks and valleys: Public space and water infrastructure as intervention tools for urban regeneration in Kigali, Rwanda
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)Current methods of urban regeneration, more specifically as practiced in Rwanda, are totally devoid of socially inclusive approaches, and highly lack contextual adaptability. In the aftermath of the genocide of 1994, which ... -
När: Constructing a Sensory Concentration Space
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)När: Constructing a Sensory Concentration Space presents a work that contemplates, designs, and materialises the notion of public personal space. Modern society often leaves us alienated from ourselves. This thesis is an ... -
Necessary Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-03)While documenting the Old Spitalfields Market in London, UK prior to its renovation in 2006, I happened across a simple yet provocative statement- 'this will all be fields again'- inscribed into the existing pavement in ... -
Negotiating Boundaries, The Veil: The Appearance of the Invisible
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The chador is more than a matter of taste in clothing or a religious regulation; it is the incarnation of a belief, a culture, and a tradition. Intermingled with it are the profound emotions of the women who have been ... -
Neighborhood Redefined: Creating Culture in the Interstitial Spaces in New Town of Pardis, Iran
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)Low-cost housing developments forming “the new towns” adjacent to the metropolitan cities in Iran were aimed to accommodate low-income households. However, after a decade of occupancy, the inhabitants of these towns are ... -
Nest. Negotiating Experiences in Shared Thresholds
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-30)As architects, we cannot resist the opportunity to build good houses on generous budgets to accommodate happy families. We could use this opportunity, however, to reconfigure the detached single-family house for a group ... -
Net Positive Water
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)‘Net Positive Water’ explores the capability of domestic architecture to combat the developing urban water problem. Urban intensification is contributing to the volatility of urban waters and the breakdown of the urban ... -
A New Baptism: Reclaiming public space through Light, and Bathing Ritual for an abandoned church in Montréal
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-02)Québec’s historical attachment to Roman Catholicism is visible: there is still a great amount of church buildings throughout the province. However, changing attitudes in Québec (as in other regions around the world) are ... -
A New Metropolitan Cultural Ligament: Toronto Eglinton Crosstown LRT Prototypical Design Proposal
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-11)This thesis strives to establish a set of design guidelines for the upcoming Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit development in Toronto. The primary design goals are to promote an enjoyable travel experience to commuters, ...