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Architecture: Recent submissions
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Dwellings for the Goryan: Re-crafting Bulgarian Post-Soviet Identity at the Site of the Friendship Monument
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-18)My interest begins in present day Bulgaria at the prominent site of a ruined Soviet monument which the country’s previous communist regime built in 1979. Their monuments expressed communist philosophy through their ... -
Co-Existing: Exploring Commercial Laneways in Downtown Toronto as a Network for Public Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)This thesis explores the opportunities that commercial laneways offer for integrating new public spaces into Downtown Toronto, in order to increase the amount of public space in the city core and improve social interaction ... -
A Living Room for Milton
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)Milton, Ontario is one of many smaller Canadian cities that has absorbed the sudden growth brought on by a combination of the lack of affordable housing prices and access to major employment lands in larger urban centres. ... -
The Essence of Objects and Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-16)Every substance in the universe has its own identity that defines what it is. The essence is the property that entity and object have by necessity, without which, it loses its nature. This research aims to explore the idea ... -
The Dionysian Temple of Toronto An Exploration of Nietzsche’s Affirmation of Life
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-14)This thesis investigates the life-affirming Dionysian philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and how its components can be translated into a Dionysian temple. Ever since Nietzsche’s pronouncement of the death of God, affirming ... -
The Temple Of Afrobeat(s): Re-Imagination of The New Afrika Shrine
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-14)Fela Kuti is very influential to the development of Nigerian music, as he is credited for the founding of Afrobeat, which in turn led to the establishment of Afrobeats, a collection of musical sub-genres of Nigerian and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
In the Shadow of an Oak Tree : A place to heal for women of Sarpol Zahab city
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)Natural disasters are unpredictable, terrible events that can change people’s lives in less than a minute, like the 7.3 earthquake that shook western Iran in November 2017. Sarpol Zahab, a small Kurdish city sited near ... -
Revitalizing The Sunset Strip: Learning from Rock 'n' Roll on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)Since the set-up of major motion-picture productions, Los Angeles County has been regarded as the entertainment capital, with West Hollywood at the forefront of the music industry. Beginning in the 1960s, a revitalized ... -
The Means of Relief: Transitional Housing in the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-26)The unfortunate paradox of the architectural profession is that it prides itself on being of service to the public, yet it is those most in need of an architect’s service that can least afford it. With conditions of ... -
Where Ravens Dream: Encountering Property in Relation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)This thesis asks a personal question that I have struggled with since before the Masters program: Is Architecture inherently an imposition on place? Through personal relation, reciprocity and dialogue with a particular ... -
in a good way: (Re)grounding Contextual Narratives on Turtle Island
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-21)Canada is a settler-colonial nation built on Indigenous lands. Architecture in this context is not a neutral practice. Together with urban planning, it has played a key role in the genocidal dispossession, displacement, ... -
The Newfoundland Root Cellar: Adapting Passive Strategies for the New Corner Store
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-02)Since the re-settlement programs and the cod moratorium in Newfoundland, rural residents have migrated en masse to urban areas. As they move to cities, their connection to food production is diminished as farms are abandoned ... -
We Belong With the Water: Mobility, temporal habitation, rituals, and other 'incidental' elements surrounding fish harvesting traditions of Indigenous communities in Southern Georgian Bay - A Graphic Novel
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-24)For over 200 years, the delineation of the land and subsequent colonial settlement throughout Canada has subjugated and removed Indigenous presence from the land. This includes their constructions, tools, and laws connected ... -
A Tale of Two Cities: Re-Imagining Tahrir Square’s Muggamaa Complex(e)
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-08)Cairo, Al Qahera, the city Victorious in Arabic, is being replaced by a new administrative capital 50 km away from its core in the middle of the desert . Known throughout history as the City of a Thousand Minarets, Cairo ... -
Re-Territorializing Park-Monument of The Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)The silhouettes of colossal Soviet monuments in Bulgaria shaped the landscape of the nation, both physically, and metaphorically. Many remain abandoned, some have been removed, a few modified, but their controversy remains ... -
(Post)Colonial Tectonics: reflections on relations in Indigenous spatial practice between the Beautiful Waters and Willow River
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)I find myself studying architecture in Cambridge, Ontario, a settler on lands stewarded by the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples for countless generations, on a tract following the Grand River (or Willow ... -
Farming the High Seas: An adaptive approach for the inhabitation of oceanic recirculation gyres
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Ocean management authorities predict that global fish stocks will be severely depleted by mid-century unless commercial fishing practices are greatly modified. This thesis considers aquatic architecture in general, and ...