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On the Verge: Activating Public Space in the Periphery
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)This thesis examines the suburban verge’s latent potential as an alternative public space. It is located between the boundaries of private properties and public streets, where territorial boundaries and ownership are ... -
On Walking
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-03)Imagine the anatomy of architecture as a complex system, where the form is the result of generative processes, the material properties of the components, and their patterns of assembly. Within this paradigm, surface is ... -
On Yonge Street
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)Yonge Street is a unique urban resource for the City of Toronto. It acts as the central nervous system uniting local, suburban and out-of-town populations with both surface and underground networks. It has transformed to ... -
One Hand Occupies the Void
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-15)The interconnected nature of void and matter and form is implied in architecture, but rarely explicitly expressed. Since the void is neither form nor material, it is difficult to define, but it occupies a critical role in ... -
One Stone, Three Processes: A Material Culture Study on Queenston Limestone
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-19)Named after the Queenston Quarry, Queenston Limestone is Canada’s highest calibre of building stone for its durable building properties and aesthetics. The stone has been quarried in the St. David’s and Niagara region for ... -
Oneiric Hut
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)I set out to learn something basic about architecture, something foundational on which to situate the conceptual and rhetorical exercises played within the studio. In settings both academic and professional I had been ... -
Open Territory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-05)Territory, as an incipient design setting, is progressively displacing conventional notions of site within design research and practice, and, with this, the design professions are increasingly exploring their agency as ... -
Opportunity in Absence: Activating Vacant Space in The Temporary City
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-24)The vacant buildings in Cambridge await new uses as traditional commercial activity has shifted to the sprawl that defines the landscape between the city’s historic cores. Downtown businesses have been replaced by big-box ... -
Optimizing Structure: An Investigation into Lightweight Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)This thesis investigates how to reduce the raw materials invested in a building, specifically in the structural aspect of its construction, and in so doing decrease the embodied energy required to build a structure. Geometric ... -
The Other 90%: Infrastructural Components for the Masses, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with many dense cities in developing countries, are stifled by their rudimentary, undersized and poorly maintained waste, water and sanitation infrastructural systems. Port-au-Prince is a city ... -
The Other Place: Building A Retreat Of One's Own
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-17)How is one to ground themselves in an increasingly virtual and abstract world? The Other Place offers a complementary environment to daily life. Here one can establish the necessary critical distance from the conditions ... -
Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home from Jaffna, Sri Lanka to the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Displacement is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space; however, the practice of housework and homemaking allows forcibly displaced people to reconstruct home elsewhere. Centring the context ... -
Our Last Home: Designing for Care at the End of Life
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-15)In the last fifty years, hospice palliative care has changed the modern understanding of dying. Rather than focusing on death, it promotes the facilitation of optimizing life for patients whose conditions have worsened ... -
The Overnight City. Future Explorations of Density and Population Growth in a Diminishing World
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-25)Land is our planet’s scarcest resource. With all the combined advances in our civilizations and their respective technologies, we have yet as a society to fully understand our precarious situation ... -
Packing: An Architect's Guide
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-19)A study of packing constructs a critique of the everyday: a dialogue between chaos and order, surface and area, interior and exterior, gravity and lightness. In search of tangible expression of the spatial processes I ... -
Parametric Design: An Implementation of Bentley Systems Generative Components
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis addresses the need for flexible parametric design tools. It focuses on the implementation of a particular tool, Bentley Systems' Generative Components, by exploring features, strengths and weaknesses, and ... -
The Parametric Facade: Optimization in Architecture through a Synthesis of Design, Analysis and Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Modular building systems that use only prefabricated parts, sometimes known as building “kits”, first emerged in the 1830s and 1840s in the form of glass and iron roof systems for urban transportation and distribution ... -
Parkdale People's Palace: Rethinking a Heritage Church as Revitalized Social Infrastructure
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-22)In recent decades, Canada’s church buildings have been steadily declining in number and use due to the increasing secularization of society and the diminished role of Christianity in the country. Rather than demolishing ... -
The Parkdale Public Library is for Us
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-31)The Parkdale Public Library in Toronto is an illustration of what remains of democracy today. While government is deeming libraries irrelevant with their funding cuts, and privatized cafes are taking over as ‘public’ ... -
PART TEN: A Case for Increased Regulation of Relocatable Buildings in the Province of Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-04)Abstract: This thesis addresses the role that building regulations and codes have in shaping the way that the pre- fabricated building industry designs, manufactures and installs Relocatable Buildings (RB) used within ...