Browsing Architecture by Supervisor "Blackwell, Adrian"
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New Ruins: The Decline and Regeneration of Council Housing
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-11)The thesis explores the emergence, decline, and regeneration of council housing in the United Kingdom, and specifically London. It presents a conception of housing as a commodity derived from Arjun Appadurai’s The Social ... -
Next Babylon: A Virtual Cartography of Utopia
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Migration is one of the defining issues of our time. Over the duration of writing this thesis, the total population of forcibly displaced people has increased from 65 million to more than 70 million people worldwide.[i] ... -
On [Re]building Downtown: Design Framework for the Core Area
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-22)Rapid condominium development in Toronto is consuming large areas of the ground plane in prominent corridors of the downtown core. This is the most popular development practice for Mixed-Use land use in Toronto. It is ... -
Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home from Jaffna, Sri Lanka to the Greater Toronto Area
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-21)Displacement is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space; however, the practice of housework and homemaking allows forcibly displaced people to reconstruct home elsewhere. Centring the context ... -
Practices of Furtive Commoning in the [Post]Apartheid, [Post]Colonial City of Cape Town, South Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)Contemporary neoliberal policies in Cape Town, South Africa repeat and perpetuate colonial and apartheid era patterns of socio-spatial segregation. These patterns result in the sustained quiet encroachment of informal ... -
The Production of Space for Entrepreneurship: State-Led Gentrification & Innovation along the ION Light Rail Transit Line in the Region of Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)The Region of Waterloo is rapidly transforming along the route of the ION Light Rail Transit Line as expansions in the innovation industry and investments in public space enhance a new linear core. As the transit line ... -
The Re-amortization Act: A Material Durational Agenda for Conservation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-12)With the urgency of the climate crisis, we need to begin thinking of new systems that properly value the existing embodied energy invested in Toronto’s built forms, challenging existing neoliberal patterns of development, ... -
Re-imagining the Compound: Regeneration of Block Urbanism in Seoul
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-19)South Korea is a country where the national landscape is dominated by endless horizon of high-rise apartment blocks. This is especially true in the capital city of Seoul, where about half of the country’s population currently ... -
Real Mixed Use: Combining Living and Production on Underused Historic Industrial Sites to Resist Gentrification
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)Changing economic conditions and production requirements have caused manufacturing and other secondary industries to move away from the urban core of mid-sized cities in Southern Ontario, such as London, Hamilton, and ... -
Rendering as Critical Reflection: On the visual production of architecture in China and the West
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)This thesis reflects on our thoughts and actions towards the proliferation and use of photorealistic rendering by the architectural profession in China and the West, both of which actively engage in this form of image ... -
RESILIENT GROUND: A Proposal for Re-Establishing Relationship Between People, Land and Water in Saigon/Ho-Chi-Minh City Amidst Urbanization and Flooding
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)The urban fabric of Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City, HCMC) is an intense and complex layering of planning and development. It has provoked my curiosity for a long time because of its pragmatic, informal, and ... -
Six Empty Shells: Contextualizing the Aspirations of Mexican Modernity Through the Tlatelolco Housing Complex.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-12)During the 1950’s, the Mexican federal government pursued an ambitious plan to modernize the country. With the growing apparatus of government and facing a demographic explosion, the capital, Mexico City, faced a critical ... -
Spaces for Economic Diversity
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-28)The discipline of architecture operates within the organizing structure of the economy and is directly influenced by its flows and cycles. The fabric of the city is often a product of profit-pursuing goals, resulting in ... -
Submechanophilia
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Twenty-three federal offshore oil platforms line the coast of Southern California for approximately 200 miles from Point Concepcion, Santa Barbara County to Huntington Beach, Oxford County. Installed from1968 to 1989, they ... -
Transit-Oriented-micro-Development: Small Marketplaces for Maryvale, Phoenix, Arizona
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-28)Phoenix, Arizona is consistently ranked as one of America’s fastest growing cities. This growth is attributed to pervasive suburban expansion. Since the Second World War, Phoenix’s population has increased by fourteen times ...