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Architecture: Recent submissions
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MALLOCALYPSE: the loss of great space
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)The contemporary North American believes that you can purchase happiness. We search in boxes labeled new and improved, looking for products that are forever bigger, stronger, and faster. We want these things because they ... -
Medina: Reviving Place Identity through Public Space
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Medina, as the second holy city for Muslims around the world and a place where the Prophet (peace be upon him) lived and is buried, has a distinctive identity. On the contrary, however, the central part of the city, the ... -
On Resurfacing: A Case for a Cultural Renaissance
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Globalization and the advancement of technology have made the world smaller. Boundaries that define nations and nationalities have blurred and the resulting sense of displacement has undermined assumptions of identity and ... -
(de)militarized zone: faction space as borderline landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Tension has been the most significant and constant factor in the relationship between North and South Korea over the past sixty years. The differences in the political systems and the economic disparity between the two ... -
Detroit Neighbourhood Stabilization: Burdens Become Assets
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Detroit is just one example of a post-industrial city that has been struggling with the decline of the American industrial economy. In the past 100 years, Detroit city has gone from one of the largest and most promising ... -
The Other 90%: Infrastructural Components for the Masses, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with many dense cities in developing countries, are stifled by their rudimentary, undersized and poorly maintained waste, water and sanitation infrastructural systems. Port-au-Prince is a city ... -
The Future of Food in Suburbia
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)This thesis addresses resilience for the future of Canadian suburbs, through the lens of buildings and food, particularly against the backdrop of peak oil and climate change. Food access is an integral part of how a city ... -
A Contemplation on the Ideal Built Environment of Ethical Tourism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)This thesis gives an overview and seeks to establish a framework for creating the built environments that would support an ethical and environmentally aware global counterculture in travel and tourism. It seeks to advocate ... -
Oh The Places We'll Go: The Game of Children's Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)Play is inarguably an important part of human development. Through play, children as young as three years of age learn social skills and values that will form the foundation of their development in to adult life. Children ... -
Lost River: The Artefacts of Toronto's Garrison Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)Once the founding site of the city of Toronto and its second largest watercourse, the Garrison Creek and its original landscape of dense forest and deep ravines have disappeared beneath an aggressive process of development ... -
Walmart 2.0
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Processes of industry and economic exchange have significantly and continually defined the underlying structure and formal characteristics of the American city. Contemporary ‘distributed’ systems of economy and industry ... -
The House of Ontario: Restoring Meaning and Identity to Queen's Park
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)“It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed ... -
Echoes of Industry: Reinterpreting Artifacts of the Lachine Canal
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once the cradle of Canadian industry, is now riddled with industrial ruins, testaments to its productive past. Since the canal’s closing in the 1970’s, different attempts were made to reinterpret ... -
Journey to the Centre of the Shield
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)The land of deep water lies in Ontario’s north, atop the boundless rock of the Shield. It holds the secret of an island once blossoming with copper ore. Here primordial elements dance in the ancient landscape and invite ... -
Tomorrow's Airport Today: A Holistic Approach to Modern Terminal Design
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)Modern airport terminal design approaches the needs of passengers on a primarily logistical level. Over time, genuine interest in passenger comfort and satisfaction has become diluted in the face of an increasingly efficiency ... -
In The Fields: the Fun Palace, Co-creation, and the Digital City
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-14)In 1963, architect Cedric Price, theatre producer Joan Littlewood, and cybernetician Gordon Pask proposed a new kind of leisure centre called the Fun Palace. Though never built, the project continues to influence architecture ... -
The House of Uncommon Grounds
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-09)Demographically open public spaces provide valuable grounds for engaging diverse ideologies. While the rise of society and passive consumption of mass culture excludes “action” and “speech” from the public realm and threatens ... -
Contesting Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)After Israel’s triumphant victory over its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War, the State immediately began a policy of territorial seizure in the newly occupied areas. Tracing these seizure practices, their supporting ... -
Death in the City: The St. Lawrence Funeral Centre
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)In contemporary North America, death is contained within a network of cemeteries, crematoria and funeral homes. Death-space and its associative funeral rituals are both sacred and abject resulting in marginalization that ... -
Raising Islands
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)In an era of dawning anthropogenic climate change, people of atoll nations face grievous threats to their future. Rising sea levels, warming oceans, and changing weather patterns conspire with economic isolation, rapidly ...