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Architecture: Recent submissions
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Let the Child Be. Children, Play, & Space
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Childhood is a time of vulnerability, unknowns, and vast potential. Children’s environments should be sensitive to these qualities. This thesis is an investigation of outdoor play environments for children. Its focus is ... -
Port Place Reconsidered: Genius Loci and the Renewal of Port Dalhousie
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)Port Dalhousie, a neighbourhood of St. Catharines located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, has in recent years experienced an economic, cultural, and social decline. Once the northern terminus of the Welland Canal, ... -
Aural Landscape Composing an Urban Park
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)As a culture, the Western World has placed a negative stigma on noise, which has lead to the disregard of the urban soundscape. Researchers have been studying and theorizing ways of understanding the urban sound environment ... -
Darkness Encountered in Light
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)The old axiom that history is doomed to repeat itself seems to be true in the contemporary world. Ideologies of hate and division are having something of a resurgence, despite our common cries of ‘never again.’ We can trace ... -
When Nature Goes to School: A Green School Design for Milton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)It is generally agreed upon that environmental education has an important place in 21st century schools, as the need to educate the current and future generations of young people on how to live in a sustainable way grows ... -
For Every Line Casts A Shadow
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-08)The blank page represents a void, an open area of space that holds the potential for architecture. Through a process of drawing points, lines and planes, the void of the paper is cut to become an arrangement of curated, ... -
Six Empty Shells: Contextualizing the Aspirations of Mexican Modernity Through the Tlatelolco Housing Complex.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-12)During the 1950’s, the Mexican federal government pursued an ambitious plan to modernize the country. With the growing apparatus of government and facing a demographic explosion, the capital, Mexico City, faced a critical ... -
Prosthetic Landscapes: Reclaiming the Iraqi marshes
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-22)Hidden within the sands of the middle eastern desert, there lies a vast aging Petropolis, occupying territories in southern Iraq through the injection of infrastructure such as mechanical drills and mobile machinery. The ... -
Urban Room - Dynamic reinterpretation of Toronto’s urban voids
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-21)Over the past few decades, Toronto’s downtown core has experienced extreme and rapid intensification, seen through an exponential increase in both employees and residents. This growth has severely outpaced that of public ... -
GREY TO GREEN 13 GATES TO THE GREENBELT
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-21)The Greenbelt was created by the Government of Ontario in 2005 to protect working farms, wetlands, natural habitats, woods and river valleys that surround the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Its vast 8000 square kilometers ... -
Data, Debt & Daemons: Systemic Asymmetries on Spaceship Earth
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-17)Day by day, the rate at which we create new data increases exponentially. Our capacity to learn cannot keep up. We are tiny members of a vast universal network, incapable of discerning cause and effect. Instead, we develop ... -
Re-Imagining Concrete: A Material First Design Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-15)This thesis asks the question: “What if we began the creative process of design with material?” In an age where digital images dominate the design process, architecture’s main medium of expression remains through matter. ... -
In Transition,Re-contextualizing the Persian Garden Paradigm as a Platform for Persian Cultural Celebrations in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-02)Iranian communities constitute one of the largest settler ethnic groups in Toronto. Coming from diverse cultural backgrounds, Iranians become disconnected from their cultural norms and geographical roots following their ... -
Diving in: The Architecture of Urban Lake Swimming
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)In the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, the Lake Ontario waterfront along the Greater Toronto Area was packed with swimmers enjoying its waters. Today, on a hot summer’s day, one could find the ... -
VENICE OF LAGOS - Reviving the fishing culture in Makoko through Aquaponics
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Lagos, Nigeria is a rapidly growing mega-city that faces issues such as overpopulation, pollution, waste management, sanitation, poverty among a host of others. The coastal nature of Lagos causes the city to experience ... -
A Tool, A Room, A House, A Village: Urban Cottages for Domestic Crafting
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)When we craft objects, we become absorbed in work, intimately involved with the physical piece. These things populate our homes, carrying our imprint. Whether making or using our handiwork, our crafts bring us joy. However, ... -
PTAF Polygon Tessellation to Approximate Frame. A Method for the Design and Analysis of Complex Frames
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Complex frames are difficult to model because there are so many elements and redundant load paths. In order to explore the realm of complex frames, there needs to be a technique for approximate modelling to allow for rapid ... -
Obus: Intent and Inhabitation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)First proposed by Le Corbusier for the city of Algiers in 1932 but never built, the Plan Obus is Le Corbusier’s ultimate city planning project. The forerunner of the megastructures projects of the 1960s, it sits squarely ... -
The Journey to the Inner Peace of Your Heart-Modernization of traditional Chinese Buddhist temples
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)This thesis aims to explore the method of designing contemporary Chinese Buddhist temples in terms of investigating how Buddhist temples should develop without repeating traditional forms nor losing the sacred sensation. While ... -
The Story of the Hands: On Earth and Community
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)The phenomenon that the universalization of the urban (and rural) form has disadvantaged many Iranian cities and villages of a sense of place, culture, and identity, is not a very recent one. Neither is it a novel understanding ...