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Architecture: Recent submissions
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(Un)canny Spaces: The Unbecoming of Everyday Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)Beginning in the late eighteenth century, socioeconomic changes due to rapid urbanization defined a clear demarcation between public and private realms. In opposition to the chaotic milieu of the cities, the notion of home ... -
Hidden Stories: Resurrecting the Garrison Creek through a Decentralized Storm-water Management System
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-11)This thesis examines the disconnect that is created when the urban infrastructure of cities absorbs its historic landscape. Toronto’s Garrison Creek is a typical example of such disconnection; where the historic creek was ... -
Architecture Saturated with Free-Thinking Machines
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-08)This thesis explores the benefits and disadvantages for human occupants living within intelligent buildings and responsive environments that have developed the autonomy and the ability to make their own intelligent decisions ... -
NO MAN'S LAND: deconstructing the company camp in Canada's Oil Sands
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-08)For nearly fifty years, commercial development in the Canadian Oil Sands has been the generator of a population explosion in northern Alberta. Oil sector workers seeking stable employment and high wages have been drawn ... -
Cultural Connectivity: Design as a method to facilitate cultural exchange within the Gerrard Bazaar
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)As immigrants choose to reside within the suburbs and the city undergoes rapid geographical change, Toronto’s ethnic enclaves are facing significant transformation in terms of their neighbourhood demographics, economic ... -
The Aleatoric Milieu: An Architectural Theory on Proxemics and Navigation Design
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)The Aleatoric Milieu is an architectural theory that combines the space people require to feel at ease and natural wayfinding. By investigating how buildings and cities naturally possess or have been observed to develop ... -
The Grange Hotel: Everyday Leisure in the Grange Neighbourhood
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)The modern metropolis offers a wide variety of experiences to enrich our everyday life. Beyond meeting our daily needs, such a rich and diverse city is a complex system of urban phenomena that also satisfies our need for ... -
Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)A person does not experience architecture as a purely physical construct. Lived space transcends mere materiality, as each individual experiences the world outside oneself through the unique filter of one’s own mind. In ... -
Living Beyond Subsistence
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)The residential tower is the setting for various manifestations of domestic environments. Every unit consists of a particular narrative of an individual within the larger collective. Yet this crucial microcosm that links ... -
Liminal Matter: Diffuse, Adaptive Environments for a Future Dundas Square
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-28)Emerging technologies challenge conventional approaches to the design of contemporary urban public space, both with regard to location and to organisational composition. With the arrival of compact, mobile and real-time ... -
Phantom Limb
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-13)The living interact with the dead. We live in a funerary landscape that surrounds us, that is inside us. We fold memories of the dead into the space of the living. We embrace death, even while we turn away from it. ... -
Open Territory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-03-05)Territory, as an incipient design setting, is progressively displacing conventional notions of site within design research and practice, and, with this, the design professions are increasingly exploring their agency as ... -
Cycle City: Generating a Cycling Culture in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-18)As Toronto’s population continues to grow, the city is faced with many new challenges related to the quality of urban life. Central to overcoming these challenges is a rethinking of urban mobility. As the region’s population ... -
Galt Agora: Vision for a Pedestrian Fabric in the City of Cambridge
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-17)The ongoing urban renewal occurring within the City of Cambridge, and its Galt city centre has been a long delayed process, yet it is a necessary one for the city and its inhabitants. A latent sense of disintegration within ... -
The Journey to the Other Side: Investigation into the Myth of Persephone
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-09)This thesis is an exploration of chthonian architecture, which offers qualities that guide its visitor to the gate of the unconscious mind, which has always been the starting point of the holy trip of self-discovery. This ... -
A House of No Importance: The rise and fall of Nasr City’s middle class extended family houses
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)Since its urban boom around the mid 1980s, the Cairene residential district of Nasr City has been the hub for a unique housing phenomenon. It has seen middle class professionals appropriating its apartment building typologies ... -
The Lady in Red: Spirit of the Historic Alleyways in the Ancient Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-23)THIS is a record of a place in flux, the hutongs of Beijing. It is a patchwork where the essence of place can be experienced. It is a journey of discovery. It is a document that, in the face of terms such as heritage and ... -
Adaptive Balconies: An Open Design System for Housing Tower Renewal at 545-565 Sherbourne Street, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)This investigation is based on the renovation and reconsideration of residential tower neighbourhoods, and speculates an open design system as an alterna- tive to current practices prevalent across the city of Toronto. The ... -
Making the City : A Document on Tactical Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)In the past decade city of Toronto has seen an unprecedented growth in its population. This surge on growth of the city poses questions about the quality of its future public and private spaces and its patterns of growth. In ... -
No Common Ground: Atlas of Resistance and Control During the 2010 Toronto G20 Summit
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)Architecture and legislation describe the spaces of the city, and the activities they contain. ‘Security’ can dislodge this public space. This is especially true during gatherings of global leaders within major cities. The ...