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Architecture: Recent submissions
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Delandfill: Reclaiming Ontario's Closed Landfill Sites
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)There are over one thousand closed ‘small’ landfills in Ontario, each with differing circumstances and potential problems. This project proposes a method of addressing such dormant sites in situ, based upon a case study ... -
Public Spaces of Tehran; Official Repression, Subversive Alternative
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-21)The idea of democracy, in Western societies is inseparable from the public space. As an accessible space for all, public space provides a realm for everyday activities, social interaction, communication, and the practice ... -
Towards a Sustainable Future: Courtyard in Contemporary Beijing
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-15)China has become one of the world’s economic engines. One major driving force is the rapid urbanization. Such fast development results in resource and energy depletion, pollution and environmental deterioration. The ... -
Hack: Reclaiming the Commons
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-03)Architecture is an act of agency, and a technology that can be learned by anyone for their own purpose. It evolved as a system of organization and a protective shell for our fragile bodies, a vast, complex technology that ... -
Dreams of Slaughter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)A descent into the ravine is a step through a tear in urbanity. The terrain vague is a foil to the capitalist city; against a demand for order, specificity, and integration, it is disorienting, banal, erratic. Operating ... -
An Undivided Landscape: Dissolving Apartheid buffer zones in Johannesburg, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-01)Progressive spatial segregation of Whites from other ethnic races in South Africa started in 1886. Apartheid rulers evicted three and a half million Blacks, Coloureds and Indians from white urban and residential areas ... -
Oneiric Hut
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)I set out to learn something basic about architecture, something foundational on which to situate the conceptual and rhetorical exercises played within the studio. In settings both academic and professional I had been ... -
REvision 2020: Redefining Public Works in New York City’s Sixth Borough
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-29)On March 14, 2011 the Bloomberg Administration unveiled New York City’s 10-year comprehensive waterfront plan entitled, “Vision 2020.” Though the document follows a long line of waterfront revitalization proposals, it ... -
Pros+Tithenai // In Addition to Place
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-26)The human being may no longer be reduced to the bounds of organic matter. An organism – a life form constructed from interdependent components that maintain various vital processes – may now reach beyond the limits of ... -
Moving Against the Grid: The Pursuit of Public Life during Apartheid, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-24)The reality of cities is that, no matter how designed, controlled, or planned they are, people will do as they like. They will find ways to live and move through them that suit their purposes, even if this means going ... -
Learning from Chinatown
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)In Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour approach the city without preconceived opinions because they believe there is something to be learned from every aspect of the built ... -
Beyond the Minimum: A Durable Emergency Shelter
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-17)The number of states requiring humanitarian assistance after a disaster has doubled every decade since 1960. Extreme weather like flooding and violent storms associated with climate change are predicted to continue to ... -
How Should We Live: An Alternative Process of Land Development for Chinese Villages
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-15)A class of migrant workers in China that have left their official rural residence in search of work and wealth in the more developed coastal cities have created a new process of urbanization. The ‘floating population’ ... -
A Revetment
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-05)Historically, in Iran, ornament was an integral part of architecture and considered a valuable part of built form. However, in time the use of ornament suffered from the decline of figural articulation in architecture, and ... -
The Tomato Palace; Empathy, Practice, & Design
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-05)Empathy is the capacity to move beyond the confining sense of ‘I’ and experience the world through others. Like laughter, it does not exist in isolation by its very nature it is an act of human connection. This thesis ... -
Decolonizing Architecture: Vieques as a Symbol for a Post-Colonized Puerto Rico
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)Puerto Rico has been a United States territory since 1898. Since then, our identity and culture has been threatened by the impositions of the colonizer. The so-called “identity crisis” caused by the relationship with the ... -
Nuna-Regionalism: A Vision of Iqaluit Regionalism
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)The recent demographic shift, sparked by a combination of political and environmental forces, towards urbanization in the Canadian Arctic has uprooted a tie to the land that largely defines Inuit cultural identity. The ... -
Grid + Ghost
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-21)The thesis begins with a notion to design a school of architecture in Saskatchewan. The context, at first, appears overwhelmingly basic: an agricultural grid superimposed on a horizontal plain, under an endless sky. This ... -
Our Last Home: Designing for Care at the End of Life
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-15)In the last fifty years, hospice palliative care has changed the modern understanding of dying. Rather than focusing on death, it promotes the facilitation of optimizing life for patients whose conditions have worsened ... -
AERO|ASTRO Architecture: the hybridizing frontier of emergent industries
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Architectural designers often need to strike an uneasy balance between idealism and reality. Under most circumstances, architects are restricted by clients, budgets, and available technologies. However, divorced from ...