Browsing Architecture by Subject "nature"
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The Architectural Parables of C.S. Lewis: The World Between Tangible and Transcendent
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-23)Beloved and renown writer, C.S. Lewis, sees the world beyond its material construction and that its meaning is rooted in its spiritual significance. Beyond the curtain of physicality lies divine reality that transcends ... -
The Becoming
(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. ... -
Fitness of Play: A Prototype for a Holistic Activity Space at Toronto’s Riverdale Park
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-10)The value of personal well-being and execution of fitness varies between individuals as the constant transformation of societal ideologies around fitness continually impact the macro perception. This in turn leaves the ... -
A Giant's Quiet Decay: The Latency of Superior North
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)What happens after a place has been exploited, isolated, and neglected? What occurs when that place is bound – confined – by impenetrable voids of dereliction? Its core, slowing diffracting, with no opportunity to ... -
Healthcare and the Environment: A Holistic Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-18)There is an increasing need for a local comprehensive cancer treatment centre that caters primarily to children. This design proposes a paediatric facility that will be located in Waterloo Region to meet the needs of the ... -
Mediation: Resonating between the Organic and Inorganic
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)This thesis emerges from the desire of unity between the intuitive and empirical expressions of nature. It argues for a greater understanding of 'patterns' inherent in nature and advocates for the need to see things as a ... -
A New Wilderness Lookout: Reimagining the Fire Lookout for Ecological Stewardship and Community Engagement
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)Canada is steward to 10% of the worlds’ forests. They play a global role in producing oxygen and sequestering carbon. Nationally timber is a major industry that is an integral part of Canada’s economic strategies. Climate ... -
The Psychology of Nature: Our Dwellings, Well-being, and Evolutionary Preferences
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Nature has always played a significant role in the human experience. Throughout prehistory, our early ancestors experienced life through a purely natural world. As an evolutionary mechanism aiding their survival and ... -
(Re)Connect: Architecture and the Senses
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)I live in a society where a state of multi-tasking and over-stimulation is common. I am inundated with excessive information and seemingly addicted to distraction. My love affair with hi speed digital devices devours all ... -
Seeking Renewal: The Value of Nature and Pausing in Shifting our Focus Inward
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-10)We live in a society that is overly fixated on our outer conditions and stimuli rather than our inner state, which is seen through one of the behaviours this outward focus produces, busyness. So often we choose filling ... -
The Wilderness
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)This thesis is a critical cultural investigation into the meaning of wilderness. It is based on the premise that as a constructed, imaginary landscape wilderness is an expression of cultural impulses. It suggests that the ...