UWSpace will be migrating to a new version of its software from July 29th to August 1st. UWSpace will be offline for all UW community members during this time.
Architecture: Recent submissions
Now showing items 581-600 of 799
-
A Giant's Quiet Decay: The Latency of Superior North
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)What happens after a place has been exploited, isolated, and neglected? What occurs when that place is bound – confined – by impenetrable voids of dereliction? Its core, slowing diffracting, with no opportunity to ... -
Evolving the Urban Dwelling
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)In examining the Canadian residential fabric, this thesis advocates for the design of urban dwellings which respond directly to a number of contemporary urban challenges. A number of these challenges stem from the largely ... -
Stochastic Lattice | A Generative Design Tool for Material Conscious Free Form Timber Surface Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)This thesis attempts to resolve the contradictory relationship between the ecological merits of wood construction and the significant material intensity of recent free form timber surface structures. The building industry ... -
A Riparian Portal
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-09)Modernization and its conveniences have obscured our relationship with the natural environment. We no longer have to personally interact with nature when consuming its resources. Consequently, we lack direct feedback ... -
Fertile Grounds: Cultivating an Identity Through Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-01)This thesis explores the contributive role of architecture to the prosperity of a place. The research addresses the challenges and opportunities that rural regions face today by analyzing the general factors of marginalized ... -
Urban Actuation: Public Space as a Catalyst for Urban Revitalization
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)The physical and social benefits of public space apparent to architects, landscape architects, and urban designers are endangered in many North American mid-size cities as residential, commercial and industrial development ... -
Architecture at Play: The Magic Circle and Flow in Video Game Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)Video games are a part of modern culture. As video game spaces begin to enter a new generation’s spatial lexicon, it is important for architects, curators of spatial design, to understand this new medium of space. This ... -
Skyfarming
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-15)Food production is unquestionably the most important industry to the well being of humanity. Unfortunately, it is also the industry that best exemplifies our species’ destructive impact on the rest of the Earth’s ecology. ... -
Projet-Aboiteaux-Project
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-21)This thesis is about the journey of an Acadian “architect” discovering the essence of his homeland in Caribou Harbour, Nova Scotia. This thesis is a way of contributing back to the Acadian community and honouring the Acadian ... -
unDressing Spectacle: An Architectural Discourse on the Event of Space
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-14)Woven within fashion and dress is the innate ability to create atmosphere and transformative experiences. Architecturally, the façade of a building acts as its skin, having responsibilities that exceed the functions of ... -
the Creative Destruction of Hamilton: a Cultural approach to the Urban Regeneration of a City in Economic Transition
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Charles Darwin proclaimed, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”. At the time, he probably did not fathom the ... -
The Parametric Facade: Optimization in Architecture through a Synthesis of Design, Analysis and Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)Modular building systems that use only prefabricated parts, sometimes known as building “kits”, first emerged in the 1830s and 1840s in the form of glass and iron roof systems for urban transportation and distribution ... -
Transformative Tenements; Strategies for urban renewal in Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)The hardened inner city community of trench town represents one of several impoverished communities that form the heart of the Jamaican capital city, Kingston. As wealth and influence have moved inland, off the coastal ... -
The Map is Not the Territory
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)Hi Donald, It just occurred to me that I might be finished with this fieldwork. I’m sitting at the side of the road looking over this fucked up landscape of cattle, golf carts, trees with turning leaves, being rained on, ... -
Dancing to the Desert: A Proposal for Self-Help Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Cities in Hot-Arid Climates
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)Natural hazards kill 82,500 people globally in a typical year, with earthquakes as the largest cause of death amongst all natural hazards in Central and Southern America, East Asia, Europe, and the Near East. Damages are ... -
The House of Matter
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)Everything falls apart, but some materials do it with a specific panache, and once design leaves paper to be built, no project is complete until it falls. As creatures subject to time, we identify with things in which we ... -
The Mongrel Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)Cities are concentrations of diverse populations that undergo continual transformation over time. This thesis deals with the question, how does the individual make place in a constantly changing environment? The entry point ... -
Too Much Information
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)This book begins with a mysterious illness in Florence and ends in the half-light of an American desert night. Notes are gathered, impressions taken, sketches made, and objects found, all leading to and from six buildings, ... -
Where the River Flows Fast
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-13)Kashechewan, a flood-prone remote First Nation in northern Ontario, is the focus of this thesis. It is an exploration into the factors that have contributed to the community’s decline and current state. By looking at how ... -
The Intermodal Metropolis: Spatial Protocols at the Convergence of Regional Mobility Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-12)Suburban Centres were established in the Toronto region as the population dispersed beyond the city’s borders. Intended as a set of delivery points for municipal services and concentrations of commercial and social program ...