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Architecture: Recent submissions
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Immensity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)This thesis is concerned with the moments, places, and circumstances in which the great magnitude of the world is felt. I live within the vast space of the spherical earth and the infinite space of the universe, however, ... -
Shelf Space & Reading Room - A Spatial History of the New York Public Library
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)The New York Public Library's Central Building, constructed just over a century ago, is in the midst of a major renovation. The Library's trustees have asked the architects at Foster + Partners to imagine the space currently ... -
Casting the Dollhouse
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-09)The Dollhouse is a model of domestic life; its material framework, spatiality, passage, function and aesthetic describe the architectural construction of a domestic ideal. Yet, the dollhouse is not simply an architectural ... -
The Residue of Flight: Investigations Into the Life of Matter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-23)This thesis is a journey that unfolds alongside the transformations of a river during springtime. Moods and movements captured by Ted Hughes in his poem Stump Pool in April inspire a series of explorations that set out to ... -
ENFRAMED.
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Contemporary architectural discourse commonly invokes the term framing. Derivative phrases contrived in education and practise are seemingly inexhaustible: framing the view, framing space, framing an idea, frame of ... -
Bodies in Parallax: Reframing the Cultural Experience of Miami Beach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-26)Parallax is integral to the conception of movement in modern architectural space. This research examines the role of architectural parallax in creating dynamic spaces that champion the primacy of perception to reinforce ... -
Ariadne’s Thread: A Letter to Descartes
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-23)As Galileo peered through a lens to see the twinkle of the Jovian moons, and Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek did the same to study the tremulous basis of all life, so the fabric of threads we weave across time and space – the vast ... -
Pilot Project: Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Rural Development
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-20)The outport is in the midst of great change. Twenty years since the moratorium on cod fishing, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is experiencing rapid economic development in another industrial resource boom. While ... -
The Second Line
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)A political boundary divided the City of Shenzhen in 1978. The southern portion is designated as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), while the northern region remains a part of hinterland China. The divide creates a geographical ... -
Land, Water, Waste and Air: Resource and Promise in the Informal City
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Striving for subsistence, the growing population of Caracas has radically transformed the city in the course of the past fifty years. The inability of the city to respond to the accelerated growth that resulted from mass ... -
Brick: A Story of Construction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Brick. A simple object, but one that has been a base unit of architecture for over 6000 years. It carries connotations of labour, of energy, of the fundamental desire of humanity to give form to the substance of the Earth. ... -
Emphasize the Gap! Towards a Žižekian Definition of Critical-Emancipatory Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-22)Confronted with issues, whose (socioeconomic) causes cannot be resolved through the modification of the built environment, architectural interventions may often inadvertently aid the reproduction of the problems they seek ... -
Thriving on the New Décarie Expressway: Reconciling Trenched Urban Expressways with the City
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)During the 1960s large trenched expressways were introduced into our urban centres to accommodate the booming vehicular traffic. These expressways were built on an enormous scale, often traversing entire cities. Unfortunately, ... -
Relational Urbanism: A Framework for Variability
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-07)In a context of rapid urbanization and increasingly standardized built environments, urbanism must find new methods of creating appropriate conditions for the variability of contemporary urban life. The city, understood ... -
Green
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-06)We insist upon “green space”, but the term’s vague cast brings little into focus. In this thesis I search out what it is that we look for in green space. I consider some ways, within our North American context, that we ... -
A New Baptism: Reclaiming public space through Light, and Bathing Ritual for an abandoned church in Montréal
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-02)Québec’s historical attachment to Roman Catholicism is visible: there is still a great amount of church buildings throughout the province. However, changing attitudes in Québec (as in other regions around the world) are ... -
(Re)Connect: Architecture and the Senses
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)I live in a society where a state of multi-tasking and over-stimulation is common. I am inundated with excessive information and seemingly addicted to distraction. My love affair with hi speed digital devices devours all ... -
Net Positive Water
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)‘Net Positive Water’ explores the capability of domestic architecture to combat the developing urban water problem. Urban intensification is contributing to the volatility of urban waters and the breakdown of the urban ... -
A Place in the Grass
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)We reached the edge of that forgotten dock and jumped, arms raised, into knee-deep grass. We wore rubber boots, and carried a camera strung to a kite. The dock was the unfinished fragment of a bridge. After crossing a dried ... -
Rethinking Bibi-Heybat: Birth, death, rebirth of Baku's oil field
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Large urban parks are extensive landscapes that are integral to the fabric of the cities in which they are situated. They offer diverse recreational outdoor spaces to fulfill experiential needs and to help consolidate the ...