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Reclaiming Construction Waste: An interface for robotic stacking of irregular components in compression-only structures
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-22)Construction and demolition activities generate approximately one billion tons of waste every year in the world. While the majority of these materials can be either reused or recycled, they are often disposed of in landfills ... -
Reclaiming Water and the Right to the City in Los Angeles: Compton Commons
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-18)The greater Los Angeles urban area is home to nearly 19 million people, but has local water resources that can only support a population of approximately one million. Los Angeles has always depended upon a large proportion ... -
The Reclamation and Reoccupation of the Burloak Employment Lands: Towards a Sustainable Community
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-21)By examining the interconnected relationship between humanity and the environment we live in, this thesis aims to bring new sustainable design approaches to a toxic industrial area known as the Burloak Employment Lands in ... -
Recollecting Identity: Food, Culture, Space and Place in the Street Markets of Hong Kong
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-04)The research investigates the importance of culture and placemaking in defining food urbanism in Hong Kong with a culture at risk of disappearing. Considering current revitalization projects and the removal of local street ... -
Reconciling the Car and the City: A Vision of Productive Urban Mobility
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-26)The relationship between cars and cities is changing. The auto-centric development predominant in America in the 20th century is beginning to subside and disappear. It is being replaced by efforts to make cities more ... -
Reconnecting Sarajevo: The Bentbaša Spine
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Sarajevo’s Bentbaša, a bathing complex of natural and artificial pools on the Eastern edge of Sarajevo, sits on the brink of the Miljacka River. As a marker of the boundary between nature and the city, the site has been ... -
Reconquering Homeland
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-24)In a world plagued by refugee crisis, the urgency of addressing this persistent challenge remains a constant thread, especially as the root and stem of the crisis are yet to be fully understood and resolved. The complexities ... -
Reconstruction Site: Re-designing the disposable Expo
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Building, supported by the practice of architecture, is churning resources into waste at an alarming rate. Our method of construction has its inevitable conclusion in a pile of rubble. Lamentably, the natural resources we ... -
Recovering the Sense and Essence of Place: The Eastern Practice of Feng Shui and its Role in Western Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-08)The aim of this thesis is to understand, identify and test the fundamental qualities of feng shui so as to examine its applicability and relevance in western architectural design practice. While the word “feng shui” has ... -
Red Earth: Shaping the Igbo family compound
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-23)Like many other African indigenous peoples, the Igbo of Nigeria established multi-generational compound homes. Many of these family compounds remain in southeastern Nigeria’s rural communities, although not as originally ... -
Redefining the Classroom: Incorporating Sensory Cognizant Design Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-07)The perception of space is generated and understood by the multi-sensory orchestration of our five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. Through the heightening and/ or reduction of specific senses the mind generates ... -
Redeveloping the Avenues
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-17)The goal of this thesis is to investigate and propose housing that increases density while offering a better quality of life for citizens inhabiting Toronto’s Avenues. This thesis compares three different building prototypes, ... -
Redrawing the Lines: An Exercise of Boundaries and Urban Interspecies Belonging in Miyajima, Japan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Swarms of semi-wild, semi-tame Sika deer roam freely in both the primeval forested mountains and urbanized coastal town of Miyajima island. Rising deer populations and mass tourism has blurred the boundaries between human ... -
The Reflexive Urban Fabric: An Investigation of the Toronto Rail Corridor
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-12)The thesis The Reflexive Urban Fabric: An Investigation of Toronto’s Rail Corridor is concerned with architecture’s role in shaping infrastructural systems into designed composite networks that respond to local, social, ... -
Relational Urbanism: A Framework for Variability
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-07)In a context of rapid urbanization and increasingly standardized built environments, urbanism must find new methods of creating appropriate conditions for the variability of contemporary urban life. The city, understood ... -
Relinquish to Dust: A Centre for (w)Resting Grief in Toronto's Community
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-24)Currently, the spaces designated for death in the city of Toronto are separated from other programmes — in states that range from neglected, full, inactive or marginalized — while any new sites are pushed to the outskirts. ... -
Remembering the River: The Retrieval of Rome's Forgotten Relationship with the Tiber
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Ever since its founding, Rome has been vulnerable to the swelling waters of its Tiber River. This river was so important to the city that it was a defining character in Rome’s history for over two thousand years. However, ... -
Render Authenticity: Revisiting Intangible Heritage to Reflect on Historical Structure Network
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-06)Shakhari Bazar in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, was one of the first streets to be built in the region of South Asia, using the river network as major transportation route and home to invaluable artisans in the 17th century. It ... -
Rendering as Critical Reflection: On the visual production of architecture in China and the West
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)This thesis reflects on our thoughts and actions towards the proliferation and use of photorealistic rendering by the architectural profession in China and the West, both of which actively engage in this form of image ... -
Renewal of Southside Chicago: Systems - Thinking & Sustainable Urban Farming
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)The city of Chicago is one of the largest cities in the United States of America and has a long history as a manufacturing hub. However, over the last fifty years, its role as a manufacturing Centre has declined. This ...