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    • Back to the Mountains: A Guesthouse for the Preservation of Vernacular Memory on Mount Tomorr in Albania 

      Metaj, Hyjnid (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 

      Arndt, Devin (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 

      Patel, Dhroov (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 

      Wu, Rufina (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 

      Di Giacomo, Joel Michael (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 

      van Overbeeke, Elisabeth (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 

      Yew, Winston (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 

      Elasmar, Tracey (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 ...
    • Between Indias 

      Panchapakesan, Charisma (University of Waterloo, 2011-01-10)
      Cultural identity today has become deterritorialized. As mass migration, mobility and interconnectivity between peoples and regions have increased, connections to geographical roots have loosened. People today are enmeshed ...
    • Between Technological Flesh and the Technological Field: A phenomenology of the domestic interior 

      Patterson, Duncan (University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)
      Swift and radical technological change necessitates a re-appraisal of the phenomenology of the house. Canonical phenomenology often has been technologically averse and the phenomenological appraisal of the house, as offered ...
    • Between the Temporal and the Eternal Falls the Shadow 

      Moussaoui, Raja (University of Waterloo, 2011-01-19)
      This thesis is composed of a number of fragments, each revealing an aspect of the dynamic, complex and reciprocal relationship that we form with architecture. Architecture is brought to life through the animation of ...
    • Beyond an Eyesore: Re-Imagining Scarborough’s Strip Malls as a Network of Public Spaces 

      Ahmed, Shahal (University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)
      This thesis celebrates the vitality and public life of the post war era strip malls located in Toronto’s inner suburb of Scarborough. These spaces are ritualistically utilitarian and informal social destinations due to ...
    • Beyond Genius Loci: An Analysis of Architectural Design Strategies of Place 

      Popovic, Stela (University of Waterloo, 2016-02-17)
      This thesis explores the contributive role of the genius locus, or “spirit of place”, in the identity of cities and the production of meaningful places. The research addresses the analysis of genius loci as historical ...
    • Beyond Shelters: An Urban Based Model to Alleviate Homelessness 

      Ghazi-Zadeh, Soheil (University of Waterloo, 2011-08-16)
        The historic connection between homelessness and severe economic depression has disappeared as a shortage of affordable decent housing prevails even during periods of strong economic growth. New factors such as the ...
    • Beyond the Minimum: A Durable Emergency Shelter 

      Child, Jason (University of Waterloo, 2013-04-17)
      The number of states requiring humanitarian assistance after a disaster has doubled every decade since 1960. Extreme weather like flooding and violent storms associated with climate change are predicted to continue to ...
    • Beyond Utility: Analyzing Unseen Infrastructures of Necromobility 

      YOUNG, STEPHANIE (University of Waterloo, 2023-04-06)
      The year 2020 was unprecedented on varying accounts but will undoubtedly be remembered by a global pandemic bringing the world to a shuddering halt. As nations scrambled to flatten the outbreak’s curve, the virus tested ...
    • Beyond Wayfinding : Sensory Focused Design for the Non-Sighted 

      Joseph, Ashwati Teresa (University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)
      While visually oriented architectural design has long been used to enhance the perceptions that shape the world of an existing ocular-centric norm, this has led to a less than satisfactory experience for users with ...
    • bicycle factory » a post-post-Fordist urban intervention 

      Yuan, Yajun (University of Waterloo, 2016-05-24)
      Cities were once filled with bicycles and factories—urban typologies now regarded as anachronistic elements of the landscape, as their relationship to the built environment evolved throughout the Industrial Revolution, ...
    • Block 1: Refiguring the Post-Industrial Ruin or Bridging Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Haldimand Tract 

      Hutchinson, Adrian (University of Waterloo, 2024-01-22)
      In an ever expanding and quickening world, heritage has become a vestige of authenticity, identity, and placemaking. In a settler colonial country its ties to ideas of inheritance, birthright, and patrimony, complicate ...
    • Bodies in Parallax: Reframing the Cultural Experience of Miami Beach 

      Azadeh, Amir (University of Waterloo, 2013-11-26)
      Parallax is integral to the conception of movement in modern architectural space. This research examines the role of architectural parallax in creating dynamic spaces that champion the primacy of perception to reinforce ...

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