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Smart Aging: How Smart Materials in Architecture Can Respond to Changing User Needs
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-04)As smart materials and digital fabrication technologies advance in architecture, environments can increasingly respond and interact with their users. One area of interest is the development of habitats that respond and ... -
Socioculturally Focused Reclamation: Reimagining the Post-extraction Landscape of Giant Mine
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)Canada is a nation of extraction, a truism that predates its confederation and is as iconic as its fur trade. Though the modern reality of extraction differs widely from this historical archetype natural resources continue ... -
The Sockeye Special: Reimagining the Arbutus Corridor for a Resilient Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-22)An underutilized ribbon of land cuts through the urban fabric of Vancouver, British Columbia. Known as the Arbutus Corridor, it is the right of way for a rail line that once connected industry on opposite sides of the city. ... -
Sonority in Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-13)Situated between music and architecture, this thesis explores the notation, design, and performance of sound space. In the middle of the twentieth century, composers began to include spatial directives in their musical ... -
Space & Story: Constructing and Communicating Narrative Space in Dungeons and Dragons
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-12)Designing and communicating spaces is an ever-evolving practice and challenge for the architect who must translate individual and collective experiences of space both to those within the field of architecture, and those ... -
Space Between Lines: Diagrammatic Architecture and 3D Printing
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-21)All forms of communication require a medium to translate abstract thoughts from the mind to an observable and measurable artifact. Whether it is through body movement, vocalization, drawing, making, or multimedia, all ideas ... -
Spacebook: Networked Public Places in the Personalized Metropolis
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-06)Today’s society is more connected than ever; we have constant access to information, to communication, and to various forms of social media. Ubiquitous mobile computing has significantly changed the public realm in a way ... -
Spaces for Economic Diversity
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)The discipline of architecture operates within the organizing structure of the economy and is directly influenced by its flows and cycles. The fabric of the city is often a product of profit-pursuing goals, resulting in ... -
Spaces of Production: From the Industrial to the Virtual City
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-18)In the industrial city, capitalist ownership over the means of production: land, buildings, tools, technology and knowledge, enabled the centralization, control and exploitation of the working class. Monetary exchange, ... -
Spiking the Line: A Megaregional Growth Plan for the Windsor/Quebec Corridor
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)In a truly global context, the contemporary urban landscape is changing dramatically. The megaregion has emerged as the primary scale of economic development and the home of the world’s wealth, innovation and progress. ... -
Sprezzatura
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)This is a catalogue of seductive experiences in architecture. Seductive building creates enrichment and invitation for exploration. In my experience working with architectural design, many projects lack choreography. This ... -
The Squaring of the Circle: The Body According to Vitruvius – not daVinci
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-07)An excerpt from a literary work of Classical literature is rendered in a self-directed manner. The literary passage in question is a description that was given at the turn of the current era by the architect, Vitruvius, ... -
St. Catharines Terroir
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-21)This thesis is set in St. Catharines Ontario, a mid-sized city of 132,000 people, situated in the heart of the Niagara Region. Once a thriving manufacturing centre, St. Catharines has experienced two decades of traumatic ... -
States of Dependency: Infrastructures of the Common
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-01)The thesis States of Dependency is concerned with exploring architectures relationship to socio-political and ethnographic conflict within Jerusalem. As a city of incredible political and national importance to both Israelis ... -
Steeltown Distilled: Extracting Hamilton's Latent Energies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-10)For one hundred years, the mighty blast furnaces of Stelco have burned, melted, and forged the identity of Hamilton, Ontario, into the epitomic Steeltown of Canada. Now US Steel Canada, its recently announced closure has ... -
Step into the Void: A Study of Spatial Perception in Virtual Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-13)The introduction of virtual reality (VR) into the architectural profession offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience unbuilt designs at full scale. The premise of the technology is that it gives users the illusion ... -
Still Wandering: Tales from the Diaspora
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)As human beings, we are compelled to establish relationships and develop communities; we practice finding meaning in these things. However, no matter how much effort goes into their creation, and no matter how rich they ... -
Stochastic Lattice | A Generative Design Tool for Material Conscious Free Form Timber Surface Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)This thesis attempts to resolve the contradictory relationship between the ecological merits of wood construction and the significant material intensity of recent free form timber surface structures. The building industry ... -
Stone it was Stone it Remained: The Evolution of Architecture on the Azores island of Pico
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)The culture of building with volcanic stone on the Portuguese Azorean Island of Pico represents the resilience of human creativity. The original settlers of this isolated Atlantic Island were faced with an adverse ... -
Stories of House & Fire
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-12)For Gottfried Semper fire was the “first and most important, the moral element of architecture.” The symbol of the soul of the city and of the house, it has become a fundamental element in the rituals of urban and domestic ...