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Subterranean Inscriptions
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis considers the condition of homelessness through its marginal position against society. Exteriority is often perceived as an abnormal state to be resolved through assimilation. To investigate it in its ... -
Interstitial Urbanity: Fragments of Place Within the Post-Modern City
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis introduces <em>Interstitial Urbanity</em> as a strategy for addressing issues of urbanity and place within New York's peripheral developments. Driven primarily by market forces, these developer led office and ... -
Architecture in a Northern Flood Plain
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The thesis is an exploration of strategies that could be utilised in creating sustainable urbanism, one in which the inhabitants retain a relationship with the environmental and geographic conditions of their place. ... -
Super GTA: Urban Implications of Ontario's Greenbelt
(University of Waterloo, 2006)In early 2005, increasing social and infrastructural costs associated with the rapidly expanding Greater Toronto Area [GTA] pressed the Province of Ontario to initiate a growth management strategy for the region. The ... -
A Path Home
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-06)With the shift in perspective from temporary to permanent residence in this country, Sikhs are caught in between two polar ends of homeland and diaspora. This thesis attempts to illuminate a third – a universal permanence ... -
Where Is The House You Will Build For Me?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)The adaptive reuse of secular buildings as churches signals a return to the fundamental belief that architecture is not necessary for Christian worship. Following are the stories and photographs of fifteen churches in the ... -
THE ISLINGTON GALLERY OF ART: An Architectural Implementation of the 'Third Place'
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)This thesis proposes turning a Toronto subway station into a gallery that will display temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Islington subway station, on the corner of Bloor Street West and Islington Avenue, will ... -
Instrumental Matrix: Regenerative Systems in Hamilton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Positioned at the metaphysical divide between civilization and wilderness, this thesis investigates the potential for symbiotic relationships among cultural, ecological and industrial systems in an effort to suggest ... -
With Chinese Characteristics: Documenting Patterns of Cultural Implantation, Intersection and Infiltration
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)This thesis explores the global traffic in culture and its effects on the urban environment. Two overlapping forces are documented: first the proliferation of Western models and cultural signifiers in China and second the ... -
Hollow Ground
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Friedrich Nietzsche classified all precepts which were imposed upon us by human intervention as idols; his aim was to instigate “a revaluation of all values”, through the irrefutable sounding out of these idols. Armed ... -
Building Collaboration, Building Community: A Home for Northern Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Building Collaboration, Building Community: A Home for Northern Learning explores the potential for architecture to support learning endeavors in the Canadian North. Informed by traditional approaches to northern learning ... -
Shamanic Sequences: Gateways between the Corporeal, Virtual and Spiritual Realms
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)This thesis explores the multi-dimensional aspects of space by engaging three primary “modes of knowing”: the corporeal, the virtual and the spiritual. The crossings of these modes are investigated through the development ... -
Site of Emerging Memory: Ritual of Recollection in Post-Communist Sofia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)Collective memory emerges within our physical realm through material and spatial manifestations that link personal and collective conceptions of the past and present. The role of the memorial, as the primary urban element ... -
Supportive Housing for Mental Health Recovery: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-31)This thesis responds to the lack of psychiatric and infrastructural support during the transition from inpatient to outpatient care, and proposes a supportive housing model for patient recovery. It establishes an ... -
Urban Agriculture: Redefining urban communities through local growing
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-10)Abstract: In our ever changing world we must constantly look to new ways and new means. Waiting until a change is necessary for our survival is dangerous and costly. Our environment and our communities do not need to be ... -
HEALING UNIVER(CITY)
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-19)Creating a sense of place; a meaningful urban landscape has been one of the great challenges of the contemporary built world. Urban fabric once molded and sanctified by religion, myth, and subtle forces, is presently ... -
The Economic Case for Sustainable Design
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-15)This thesis considers the potential of engaging the development community as a primary means of solving the environmental crisis. Specifically, it addresses how the principles of sustainable design can be incorporated into ... -
The Conscious Landscape: Reinterpreting and Reinhabiting the La Colle Falls Hydro Dam
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)The ruins of the La Colle Falls Hydro Dam encompass two very distinct topographies: the physical landscape of the vast Canadian Northwest, and the complex emotional terrain of the urban mythology of the city of Prince ... -
The Girl in the Wood Frock
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)A GIRL, forced to marry her father after he sees her playing in his dead wife’s wedding gown, runs away wearing five dresses. Four dresses are of silk and they are beautiful. The last dress is of wood. It is in this ... -
Sun, Shell, Mirror: Hiding Spaces in the Court of France
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-20)If privacy, and even secrecy, are critical components of the domestic interior, then what is the shape taken by the domestic architecture of people who must uphold high standards of individual transparency? Monarchs and ...