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Architecture: Recent submissions
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The Average Best Solution: A Generative Design Tool for Multi-Objective Optimization of Free-Form Diagrid Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)This research describes the generative modeling method implemented in an open-source program (Grasshopper) as a computational tool for performance evaluation and multi-objective optimization. It explores the initial steps ... -
Folly and Fire: A Space of Play in the Black Rock Desert
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)In Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, there is a city that appears for one week each year and then vanishes, leaving no trace of its existence except ruts in the dusty clay. The inhospitable, barren salt flat that the city is ... -
The Mountain and the Valley: A Planning and Conservation Approach for the Annapolis Valley
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-28)The Annapolis Valley Region is home to a rich and varied landscape. Agriculture, historic sites, the Bay of Fundy Shore, and the inland forests are just some of the aspects that together make up this unique region. ... -
Curation: Representation in the Reclamation of Sudbury, Ontario Landscapes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)An operating mine can last as many as several decades, though individual projects have an average lifespan between 15 and 20 years. (1) This is a relatively short amount of time, and may result in the misconception that ... -
ANIMA ÜRBEM
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-18)In 1916 the macrocosmic tensions of global conflict became focused on the microcosm of Berlin, Ontario. The nationalistic turmoil of the First World War incited a series of destructive events resulting in a schism within ... -
Johannesburg: the urban mediate
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-18)Object _ This thesis draws from the specific universality of Johannesburg to develop a theoretical framework that critically examines the opposing forces of its urbanization. In just 130 years the city of Johannesburg has ... -
Evocative Infrastructure: An Urban Cave at Yonge-Eglinton Station
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-15)The transition below grade demarcates a portal into a different realm. Underground architecture calls for a unique approach to design. This thesis is interested in looking at underground architecture through a phenomenological ... -
Constructing Our Environments: A Material Comparison
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-12)Our built environment is constantly adapting to changing factors: technology, the state of the economy, material resource availability, and, in turn, environmental conditions. The latter has gained notable importance in ... -
[un] Shaded Territories: a design for women empowerment in rural Pakistan.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-06)The separation between Pakistan and India in 1947 was a direct result of the struggle between two different religious groups in the region; Hindus, and Muslims. Of all the provinces split, Punjab was the only one province ... -
My Other Eyes that See, My Other Ears that Hear
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-22)Disability is a part of the human condition and has existed since the beginning of time, yet the vast majority of people with disabilities are still expected to live in a built environment designed for what society has ... -
Relinquish to Dust: A Centre for (w)Resting Grief in Toronto's Community
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-24)Currently, the spaces designated for death in the city of Toronto are separated from other programmes — in states that range from neglected, full, inactive or marginalized — while any new sites are pushed to the outskirts. ... -
Moments of Spiritual Engagement in Architecture: A Search for Awareness of Life and Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-19)In my encounter of Peter Zumthor’s Seniors’ Home and Kolumba Museum, I found architecture to affect well-being within the daily course of life. I saw the Seniors' Home contribute to the dwelling of the entire being of the ... -
An Itinerant Architect
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)An itinerant architect—one who learns, teaches, and practices architecture on the road—has the ability to improve spaces that would otherwise never reach their fullest potential. The profession of architecture as it stands ... -
Divided Cities & the In-Between
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)All cities set up a condition of disjunction as they are inherently manmade ‘built’ places separate from the natural wilderness they abut. The cities that emerge over time are then places held in tension between the kinetic ... -
The City Delimited
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-13)Positioning itself as an investigation into the affective capacity of transport, this thesis argues that the potential of a city is both composed and revealed through its systems of movement, contending that the sensorial ... -
NATUS • CULTUS • CIVIS: A Holistic Community Plan for the Beausoleil First Nation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)Sustainability is not a contemporary concept, rather it was a guiding principle all cultures lived by to maintain balance with the natural world and more importantly survive. Evidently architecture was a tangible expression ... -
Sympathetic Landscapes: an aesthetics for the Leslie Street Spit
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-24)The Leslie Street Spit is a five kilometre rubble breakwater on the eastern waterfront of Toronto. Built during the mid-twentieth-century as an infrastructural add-on to the existing Port Lands Industrial District, the ... -
Dear Paul: Still absurd, after all these years
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)I grew up in the suburbs, and perhaps I am embarrassed to admit it. But there is no use denying it. It’s written all over my face. Even though I have been away for nearly a decade, the residue of that past life still ... -
On Making
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)Grasping the wooden handle of a dozukime saw with both hands, I make a rip-cut into a block of eastern white pine, leaving behind a 1/64-inch wide kerf. I am cutting a dovetail: a wood joint developed over five-thousand ... -
Ab Condita
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Time and structure; expectation and construction; landscape and architecture; history and myth. The foundation is a joint which carries extraordinary potential to speak of the cultures that built it. This ...