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Architecture: Recent submissions
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Reanimation: Redefining the Urban Network in St James Town, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)Urban intensification in the city of Toronto during the 1960s draws from the essential idea – “Tower in the Park”, a concept that we now recognize as pervasively problematic. These neighbourhoods are flooded with criticism ... -
Unsettling Ground: Studies on Building and Fluid Geology in Arviat, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Ground in the Canadian Arctic is continuously being shaped by the dramatic seasonal cycles of the environment, extreme weather and deep geological processes of glaciation and retreat. The stability of Northern ground is ... -
Breaking Through the Monopoly City: A Game of Urban Agriculture Played Through Fissures in Industrial Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Games have been used throughout the world’s cultures to teach and influence ideas of urban space and planning while also arguing that in the future of sustainable cities architectural development of urban land should ... -
Incremental Urban Intensification: Managing the Re-Urbanization of Toronto's Avenues
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-13)This thesis proposes facilitating the re-urbanization of Toronto’s avenues to support the future growth of Toronto. The current guidelines for avenues buildings set out in the Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study is not ... -
Courtyard Urbanism : A Model for North American Cities?
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-26)The courtyard has endured as one of the most widespread architectural forms, transcending regional, historical and cultural boundaries to mediate open and closed, inside and outside, social constraints and environmental ... -
Step into the Void: A Study of Spatial Perception in Virtual Reality
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-13)The introduction of virtual reality (VR) into the architectural profession offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience unbuilt designs at full scale. The premise of the technology is that it gives users the illusion ... -
The Squaring of the Circle: The Body According to Vitruvius – not daVinci
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-07)An excerpt from a literary work of Classical literature is rendered in a self-directed manner. The literary passage in question is a description that was given at the turn of the current era by the architect, Vitruvius, ... -
The Detail, Photographed: Reimagining the Monument
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-04)Architectural monuments lie scattered in small communities throughout Ontario, hidden by the everyday, masked by the sub-urban streets. The sub-urban streets where I lived felt impersonal and unnatural, with cookie-cutter ... -
DECLAMATION: Embracing the Arid State in the Hetch Hetchy Water System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-24)Land reclamation is a form of land management, common in the American Southwest, that seeks to alter arid landscapes through a fabricated re-balancing of the hydrological ledger: taking water from one location, sometimes ... -
The Nature of Healing: Living Architecture for Long Term Care & Rehabilitation Hospitals
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Healthcare interiors are perceived as stressful and isolating spaces; endured during times of vulnerability causing stress for patients, visitors and staff. This thesis examines studies, which prove that this psychological ... -
PRELOADING : A Transformative Approach to Flood Preparation and Relief
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)For islands and coastal cities, the body of water that nourishes the land can easily become a leading source of threat. Natural disasters are mostly unpredictable and often have devastating impact on life and property. ... -
Anxious Ornament: Ornament in Contemporary Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)There is a fundamental conflict between the urge to ornament and the contemporary time. The phenomenon of contemporary ornament in the timeframe of early 1990s to present day is explored in the context of the modernist ... -
Geographies of Urban Filth
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)This thesis studies how our cultural understanding of dirt and cleanliness are bound to issues of class and race and how they are manifested within urban and spatial design. Boundaries are formed between clean and dirty, ... -
Wasted Water: Returning to the Fishpond Latrine Amidst Modernity, Pollution, and Stigma
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Since 1990, Vietnam has made significant efforts to eradicate open defecation in rural areas. With modernized systems and increasing severity of pollution within its rural provinces, local practices for managing human waste ... -
Reconnecting Sarajevo: The Bentbaša Spine
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Sarajevo’s Bentbaša, a bathing complex of natural and artificial pools on the Eastern edge of Sarajevo, sits on the brink of the Miljacka River. As a marker of the boundary between nature and the city, the site has been ... -
Learning From the Past: Recreating Historic Persian Gardens in Downtown Tehran
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-22)Persian Garden is a cultural, historical and physical phenomenon in the land of Iran. One of the main purposes of creating these gardens was to provide space for leisure and meditation. “Pairi Daeza” from which we have ... -
It's Terminal: Architecture of Obsolescence
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-17)There’s always been one here. There’s the one that’s here now, there’s the one that it replaced, and there’s also the first one that didn’t last so long. One hundred and sixty odd years there’s been one here, in this place. ... -
Displace and Urbanized: Or Why We Build
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-11)I embarked on this research with the aim to study the relationship between the city and the flood, understanding the waterfront as some blurred edge where wild and human forces mix. My hope was to propose a design strategy ... -
90 Minutes with the Machine
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)Cremation, or the incineration of human remains, unites two fundamental elements of human existence: fire and death. This unity is today facilitated by the cremator, a machine that burns bodies as efficiently as modern ... -
The Importance of Place: A Role for the Built Environment in the Etiology and Treatment of Problematic Substance Use
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Faced with the growing North American drug crisis, and in light of the history of ineffective or even harmful approaches to treating problematic substance use, it is time to examine the problem from a new angle. There is ...