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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 ... -
Hants County, 45º6’10”N 63º44’2”W
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-22)How can regionalism and modern building practices synthesize to develop a localized building culture? While regionally conscientious modern architecture demands efficiency, sustainable resource equilibrium may be the ... -
Happiness within the Uncanny: Revitalizing the Street Level in Hong Kong's New Town
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Hong Kong is the physical embodiment of neoliberalism at all levels of society, and the city itself is seen as a domain for private corporations to generate profit, creating spaces that are purely functional and generic. ... -
Healing Through Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Numerous studies show evidence of the body’s ability to “self-heal” when put into positive healing environments. This healing is enabled by the ability of the body to ‘tap into our internal pharmacies’ by activating the ... -
HEALING UNIVER(CITY)
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-19)Creating a sense of place; a meaningful urban landscape has been one of the great challenges of the contemporary built world. Urban fabric once molded and sanctified by religion, myth, and subtle forces, is presently ... -
Healthcare and the Environment: A Holistic Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-18)There is an increasing need for a local comprehensive cancer treatment centre that caters primarily to children. This design proposes a paediatric facility that will be located in Waterloo Region to meet the needs of the ... -
Henrik Latrope
(University of Waterloo, 2018-03-20)This is a parody on Albert Camus’ The Fall, and it satirizes Contemporary Architecture’s Dystopic Marginalizations. It takes place one fateful night between a frustrated middle-aged architect, Henrik Latrope, and his ... -
Heterotopia of Spectacles: Toronto International Film Festival in the Entertainment District
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)The Toronto International Film Festival Group (tiff.) is the latest addition to an existing array of spectacles offered in Entertainment District of Toronto. Spectacles remove us from reality, surprise us, connect us with ... -
Hidden Stories: Resurrecting the Garrison Creek through a Decentralized Storm-water Management System
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-11)This thesis examines the disconnect that is created when the urban infrastructure of cities absorbs its historic landscape. Toronto’s Garrison Creek is a typical example of such disconnection; where the historic creek was ... -
History of failure
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-16)The ability to project a virtual vision on the world and give it physical form sets the human apart. By shaping his surroundings at will, the human holds considerable power not only on the environment, but -on fellow humans ... -
Holes & Notches: Creating a Framework to Promote Agency for the Elderly in Baeksa Village
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-03)The demographic landscape of developed countries around the world is rapidly shifting. Populations are increasingly aging yet birthrates are declining. These changes are particularly pronounced in South Korea, where by ... -
Hollow Ground
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-23)Friedrich Nietzsche classified all precepts which were imposed upon us by human intervention as idols; his aim was to instigate “a revaluation of all values”, through the irrefutable sounding out of these idols. Armed ... -
Home Away Home: Student housing as a catalyst for student and community well-being in Cambridge
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)In 2004, the University of Waterloo School of Architecture (UWSA) was relocated to Cambridge, Ontario, establishing a new satellite campus 31 km away from the main campus in Waterloo, Ontario. This move aimed to invigorate ... -
A Home for Urban Families: An Alternative Approach to Housing in Downtown Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)As prices of single family homes rapidly increase in Toronto, many families are faced with a challenging dilemma: move beyond the city’s peripheries to where house prices are lower, or remain within the city and attempt ... -
The Home is a Place for Living: Fifteen Conversations About Inhabitation, Adaptation, and the Rehabilitation of Toronto’s Post-War Apartment Buildings
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)Toronto is home to one of North America’s largest stock of postwar residential towers, which house nearly a million people in over a thousand towers across the GTHA. Built throughout the postwar population and economic ... -
Home Reconfigured: Adaptability as a solution in Mumbai to help people stay in place
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)With the continuously rising employment, businesses, investments, and consequently migration, the housing prices of Mumbai have skyrocketed over the past few decades. The house bought on a mortgage, or rented at cheap rates ... -
A Home Then, A Home Now
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)This thesis explores how Hong Kong Canadians remember, inhabit, and imagine their homes to develop a process for positioning transnational belonging within the built environment. In response to discriminatory migration and ... -
HORIZON
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-22)This thesis proposes the design of a space exploration vessel capable of sustaining a community of 2000 inhabitants that will leave Earth and never return. The unique mission criteria will allow for the in depth study of ... -
Hospital
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)The former Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto was a sight in need of little description: beyond the fenced property, the building, recognizably a postwar hospital, uncaringly dismantled its red brick and regularly spaced ... -
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 ...