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Arguments in the Streets Became More Frequent
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-23)Our contemporary societal condition is comprised of an involuntary association of humans to a system which prioritizes Authoritarianism, hierarchy, and capitalism. In other words this system supports a systemic or enforced ... -
Ariadne’s Thread: A Letter to Descartes
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-23)As Galileo peered through a lens to see the twinkle of the Jovian moons, and Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek did the same to study the tremulous basis of all life, so the fabric of threads we weave across time and space – the vast ... -
Art and the City - Building Community at Jane and Finch
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-30)In rapidly growing North American cities, large-scale urban developments struggle to create a distinctive sense of community. Responding to increasing trends of isolation, decentralization, cultural and artistic expressions, ... -
The Artifacts of No-Place
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-27)This thesis assembles within it a glimpse of ‘a life’. It traces a path of disillusion to dissolution in navigating a search for identity in an increasingly globalized world. Settling into the trajectory carved by ... -
Artisanal Studios for Gujarat, India : Reviving the Textile and Print Craft by design of architectural studios for rural artisans integrated in the urban fabric of Ahmedabad
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)The thesis aims to develop an architectural strategy as a comprehensive and creative platform for traditional artisans of Gujarat to strengthen and promote the rich textile and printing crafts through architecture design. ... -
Assembly: A Revaluation of Public Space in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis focuses on the problem of defining and designing public space in contemporary mass society. "Assembly" revaluates a cultural understanding of public space as the space of regulation, consumption and leisure, ... -
Assessing the Potential of Integrating the Health Impact Assessment in Normative Architectural Practice in Order to Promote Population Health and Health Equity in Design Decision-Making
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-07)Scientific research has demonstrated that the design of the built environment can negatively contribute not only to ‘mortality’ (life/death) outcomes in populations, but also to ‘morbidity’ (overall health and well-being) ... -
The Atlas of Legal Fictions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-13)The Jewish Eruv is a defined physical area that symbolically extends the ‘home,’ beyond its walls and into the community. Purposefully built to be undetectable to the untrained eye, Eruvin are present, yet hidden, in the ... -
Aural Landscape Composing an Urban Park
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)As a culture, the Western World has placed a negative stigma on noise, which has lead to the disregard of the urban soundscape. Researchers have been studying and theorizing ways of understanding the urban sound environment ... -
Autopsy: Redesigning Urban Transportation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)According to the United Nations’ report, State of World Population 2008, humankind has come to a turning point; more than 50% of the earth’s population now lives in urban centres. Along with considerations for housing, ... -
The Average Best Solution: A Generative Design Tool for Multi-Objective Optimization of Free-Form Diagrid Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)This research describes the generative modeling method implemented in an open-source program (Grasshopper) as a computational tool for performance evaluation and multi-objective optimization. It explores the initial steps ... -
Awakening Beauty: Meaning in Contemporary Catholic Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)A Catholic church is unique among other places of worship because the space of a church forms the central place for the sacramental life of the Church, as Body of Christ, while also being an expression of it. With the ... -
Back to the Mountains: A Guesthouse for the Preservation of Vernacular Memory on Mount Tomorr in Albania
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)For millennia, the mountains of Albania have been a repository of vernacular knowledge, and in difficult times, a place of refuge from the often-hostile urban world. However, since the fall of Communism in the early 1990s, ... -
Barriers to Change: Environmental Blockades as Radical Spatial Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-22)Space carries a fundamental role in the pursuit of societal change. Recently, the relationship between space and change has constantly been revealed, challenged, and advanced at diverse sites of resistance. Amidst a multitude ... -
The Becoming
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)A child wanders into a thicket of northern red oak and black raspberry to soothe the wounds of the past. The child is plagued with the malaise of the soul, otherwise know as major depressive disorder, and seeks to heal. ... -
Beijing Underground
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)This thesis investigates a unique type of migrant housing in Beijing: underground hostels retrofitted from civil air defence basements. The core of this study consists of field research conducted from 2005-2006. Personal ... -
Being: At The Threshold
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)What does it mean to have a transcendent experience, and what does architecture have to do with it? What is ineffable space? Philosphers such as Martin Heidegger and Gaston Bachelard would argue that a true, meaningful ... -
Beni Atlas': An interface for the informal city
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-16)A map is a chart or diagram that uses spatial relationships to communicate information. Through the medium of the map a desired goal can be impressed on people’s minds as a first step to changing the environment. The history ... -
Beta-Testing Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-29)In the field of architecture, designers traditionally show their building concepts for design analysis mainly through static renderings. The problem with static renderings is that they don’t show us how and if buildings ... -
Between Four Walls and City Streets: Urban Challenges and Domestic Adaptations
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)The practices of domesticity within the city have expanded the understanding of ‘home’ to encompass a broad range of spaces beyond the physical boundaries of the dwelling. The city itself, by means of its own inherent ...