Browsing Architecture by Subject "Narrative"
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Architecture Saturated with Free-Thinking Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-08)This thesis explores the benefits and disadvantages for human occupants living within intelligent buildings and responsive environments that have developed the autonomy and the ability to make their own intelligent decisions ... -
Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)A person does not experience architecture as a purely physical construct. Lived space transcends mere materiality, as each individual experiences the world outside oneself through the unique filter of one’s own mind. In ... -
HORIZON
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-22)This thesis proposes the design of a space exploration vessel capable of sustaining a community of 2000 inhabitants that will leave Earth and never return. The unique mission criteria will allow for the in depth study of ... -
The Prosthetic Imagination: Meditations on Virtual Space and Experience of the Single Player Computer Role Playing Games
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-26)Today’s video game players sit in front of their screens immersing themselves within the fictional environment of the video game. They connect their physical self to the game-controller and their cerebral self to the ... -
A series
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)I have written a series of abstracts — an infinite string of summaries with formal and functional resemblances — none of which ended up in my thesis. The complication was that of practicality, none of the abstracts could ...