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Architecture: Recent submissions
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Capturing Atmospheric Moisture: Towards a Local Water Catchment at the Aral Sea
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-21)The desertification of the Aral Sea in Central Asia is an iconic example of the devastating local consequences of large-scale water diversion. Critical of the humanitarian consequences associated with trans-boundary water ... -
Energy and Matter: The design of a nature centre, tunnel, and neutrino observatory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)Neutrino physics proposes radical new conceptions of matter. Contemplating the extraordinary and mysterious nature of neutrinos in architectural terms, Energy and Matter considers the ideas and implications of this exciting ... -
"Don't Let Fear Take Over": The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-15)The Indian Residential School (IRS) system in Canada directly affected 150,000 Indigenous children who were taken to state-sponsored and church-run institutions to separate them from their families and cultures. During the ... -
Migrants, Urban Village, and An Open Community - A Case of Yangji, Guangzhou, China
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-12)Massive migration is one the most significant phenomena of China’s urbanization. In the thirty years since the "Reform and Open Up" policy began, Guangzhou, as the center of the Pearl River Delta, has experienced significant ... -
The Adventures of Goat
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-09)This is a story about a Goat, who is an Animated & a Talking Goat, unusually, for an Architect. There are also other Talking Animals, such as a Moose, a Butterfly by the name of Bill, a Beaver, and a Jackalope—the Jackalope ... -
Second Skin: Painting Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-08)This thesis is a creative and conceptual inquiry into the role of surface or skin in architectural theory and practice, and the nature of its relationship to architecture’s form, structure, and depth. The surface of ... -
Curating Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)The number and profile of exhibitions centred on architecture has increased dramatically in the past decade. Curating architecture can now be seen as a distinct field. In the current practice, architectural curation has ... -
Tales of a Flood
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-06)This thesis is a story of a flood as seen through the eyes of an architect. The narrative explores the relationship of the young architect with his physical surroundings, using the context of a city that goes through a ... -
Hunting For: Lessons on Architecture in Cree Territory
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)Canada’s subarctic region of James Bay, extending from the southeastern rim of the greater Hudson’s Bay, is seated at the interface of diametrically opposed climates, cultures, geologies, and ecologies. With the European ... -
The People's Cart "One Country, Two Systems; One Public Space, Two Ideologies; One Public Sphere, Two Perspectives"
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-16)In 1842, China signed a treaty that leased Hong Kong to Great Britain for 99 years as a result of China’s loss in the Opium War and its trading of tea for opium. This agreement changed the fate and destiny of the Chinese ... -
A series
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-12)I have written a series of abstracts — an infinite string of summaries with formal and functional resemblances — none of which ended up in my thesis. The complication was that of practicality, none of the abstracts could ... -
Bush Garden
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-22)To garden is to draw with the land. This tending is the primary act of culture: to perpetuate a people by negotiating with a place. Gardening impresses hope upon the land, measuring the bounds of sustenance. A boundary ... -
Contact and Continuity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-23)Wayfinding. Embodied Learning. Craft Culture. That material can harbour life inspires careful consideration of the craft of building. Building is the agency of architecture; material—its medium. The act of building ... -
The Creek That is Not: A Composite Park-way at the Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)A century after the burial of Garrison Creek, Toronto continues to experience urban floods and unpleasant sewer problems as a result of the unsettling creek. And as gentrification spreads westwards in the city, the ... -
a House to be Home
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Architecture exists in context. Buildings are designed for, and exist in, a place and time. The vast majority must adhere to a relative strict set of construction, regulatory, and cultural considerations; all of them are ... -
On The Precipice Of Change
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-18)Situated centrally, two blocks north of People’s Square, in Zhabei District of Shanghai, China, Sihang Warehouse is a place steeped in time. In 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War, when this building was still one of ... -
Algae Textile: A Lightweight Photobioreactor for Urban Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-17)By innovating the photobioreactor, the growth of algae can be deployed as a performative and ecological layer within contemporary building systems. Proposed is an algae textile: a building–integrated photobioreactor organized ... -
Rammed Earth: Adaptations to Urban Toronto.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)Rammed earth is an ancient and imperishable material-process. Traditionally associated with rural construction and underdeveloped settings, the material has begun to enter the modern vernacular. While its use is not yet ... -
Creating a Future for an Ancient Sustainable City, Yazd
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-11)Abstract Sustainable architecture attempts to find a way to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by improving the use of energy and the efficiency of material used. As new and more affordable technologies ... -
On the Border: Antagonistic Architectures | Evanescent Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-04)The Northern Pass | El Paso del Norte spills through the narrow Rio Grande Valley that separates the southern most extent of the Rocky Mountains from the Sierra Madres, dividing the bi-national metropolis of El Paso, Texas ...