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Architecture: Recent submissions
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R.A.M: Remote Arctic Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-22)The modern world is defined by networks. One network, specifically, has become the core component in how our societies function; the Internet. While the Internet may seem ubiquitous, seamless, and imperceptible, it is only ... -
Forgotten Landscapes: Restoring our Rural Imagination
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-21)As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through technology and global trade, urban populations are more and more detached from the realities of our consumption and the cultivated land that supports us. These food ... -
50:50—Sovereignty, Price, Density, Efficiency: Housing-led Economic Urban Expansion in Hong Kong.
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-16)Hong Kong is an ideal laboratory in which to study relationships between economy and architecture. In this city, tremendous power is held by both the state and in private capital. Urban form may be read as a tangible ... -
Architecture/Education: Spatial Empowerment through Capacity Building
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-01)Architecture is too important to be left solely in the hands of architects, developers, and builders. All have the right to build, alter, and inhabit spaces that meet their needs and desires. For this condition to occur, ... -
Variations on a Theme of Deep Time: From Geology to Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-27)Through the lens of deep time, this thesis draws a comparison between geology and architecture, to create an architecture of simultaneity. Using Henri Bergson’s notion of the present containing all of the past within it, ... -
Healing Through Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Numerous studies show evidence of the body’s ability to “self-heal” when put into positive healing environments. This healing is enabled by the ability of the body to ‘tap into our internal pharmacies’ by activating the ... -
Vibratory Lines; Experiments in Expressivity
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-12)All matter is expressive. All matter, animate or inanimate, sentient or made, is filled with the infinite potential for difference and articulation. All things, all bodies, are equal. In this context of absolute ... -
Pulsing Territories, Perpetual Frontiers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-11)The construction of the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali in 1969 facilitated the birth of mass tourism on the island, as well as an increasing concentration of tourist-centered developments. As the tourism industry ... -
PART TEN: A Case for Increased Regulation of Relocatable Buildings in the Province of Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-04)Abstract: This thesis addresses the role that building regulations and codes have in shaping the way that the pre- fabricated building industry designs, manufactures and installs Relocatable Buildings (RB) used within ... -
After the City
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-10)This thesis is an anthology of stories, mappings, photographs, and thoughts about Detroit. It is an analysis of the post-metropolis, the most modern city in the world, and the events and convulsions that have brought it ... -
Beni Atlas': An interface for the informal city
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-16)A map is a chart or diagram that uses spatial relationships to communicate information. Through the medium of the map a desired goal can be impressed on people’s minds as a first step to changing the environment. The history ... -
Globalization, Multiculturalism and the Evolution of Suburban Toronto, Richmond Hill Iranian Community
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-15)Canadian cities and their built form will continue to evolve as they are affected, by trends in globalization and its consequent mobilization of populations in mass immigration. This thesis investigates the impact on the ... -
CORNWALL and the POST-INDUSTRIAL SEAWAY LANDSCAPE: Localized Agency After Absolute Authority
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-09)In the 1950s the Ontario city of Cornwall was the site of a massive industrial infrastructural project, the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway Project was a modernist dream intended to spur development of an industrial ... -
The Creek and the Garden:An insertion of Community Garden System in a Neighborhood Park along the Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-09)‘The Creek and the Garden’ is about actively preparing Toronto for the surge for gardening and food production within the city and developing a strategy to ensure the future’s growing need for urban food garden space. ... -
Being: At The Threshold
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)What does it mean to have a transcendent experience, and what does architecture have to do with it? What is ineffable space? Philosphers such as Martin Heidegger and Gaston Bachelard would argue that a true, meaningful ... -
Tempest Redux
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)I could write about what making a movie has to do with architecture, a question that has been posed to me countless times by family and friends who live happily outside of the architecture bubble. It’s a question that I ... -
The City Under the City: in/to the PATH
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Beneath the congested sidewalks of downtown Toronto is an expanding underground pedestrian network spanning thirty kilometres, the largest urban infrastructure of its kind. Branded as the PATH, it does not provide a clear ... -
DE—FENCE: The Child and The City
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-15)Every year, after the first heavy snowfall, the city blends together under a soft, white blanket. Curbs, carefully edged garden beds, sidewalks, and sewer grates are obscured and it appears as though no one has ever taken ... -
Too Much Time, Or Too Little
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-14)To Homo Faber (man as maker), the Promethean revolt against nature is an act of mastership. Guided by the ideals of utility and beauty, the world of making is always rooted in the transformation of means into ends. ... -
Optimizing Structure: An Investigation into Lightweight Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)This thesis investigates how to reduce the raw materials invested in a building, specifically in the structural aspect of its construction, and in so doing decrease the embodied energy required to build a structure. Geometric ...