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R.A.M: Remote Arctic Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-22)The modern world is defined by networks. One network, specifically, has become the core component in how our societies function; the Internet. While the Internet may seem ubiquitous, seamless, and imperceptible, it is only ... -
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 ... -
Rammed Earth: Adaptations to Urban Toronto.
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)Rammed earth is an ancient and imperishable material-process. Traditionally associated with rural construction and underdeveloped settings, the material has begun to enter the modern vernacular. While its use is not yet ... -
(Re)Connect: Architecture and the Senses
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)I live in a society where a state of multi-tasking and over-stimulation is common. I am inundated with excessive information and seemingly addicted to distraction. My love affair with hi speed digital devices devours all ... -
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 Concrete: A Material First Design Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-15)This thesis asks the question: “What if we began the creative process of design with material?” In an age where digital images dominate the design process, architecture’s main medium of expression remains through matter. ... -
Re-Imagining Healthy Aging within an Intergenerational Community
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-19)There has been a demographic shift resulting in an increasing number of older people than younger people in the demographic pyramid. As a result, there is a strain on the number of resources available, such as senior ... -
Re-Imagining Indoor Gardening Systems: Ceramic Light Fixtures as Food Growing Typologies
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-29)In recent years, many Canadians have shown interest in growing their own food at home as a form of recreational hobby, to address concerns of self-sufficiency, and to encourage greater environmental sustainability. However, ... -
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 ... -
Re-Occupying the Archipelago: The Potential of Unified Governance in the Thousand Islands Region through Application of the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)This thesis explores the potential Indigenization of governance in the Thousand Islands region through integration of Haudenosaunee political philosophy to better inform methods by which local governing bodies make decisions ... -
Re-storying Dammed Waters: Towards Kichisippi Pimisi (American Eel) Recovery in Algonquin Provincial Park
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-29)Since time immemorial, the migrations of Pimisi (American Eel, Anguilla rostrata) to the Kichisippi (Ottawa River) Watershed have woven together a vast web of interdependencies. Dam operations along these waters have driven ... -
Re-Territorializing Park-Monument of The Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)The silhouettes of colossal Soviet monuments in Bulgaria shaped the landscape of the nation, both physically, and metaphorically. Many remain abandoned, some have been removed, a few modified, but their controversy remains ... -
Re-Visioning Sustainable Urban Housing in2020, the year of perfect vision
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-17)Civilization’s vantage point has shifted with advances in technology from an eye-level view of the horizon to a bird’s eye view from a plane, to a planet-wide view from space. This relatively new global view is now the ... -
Re-wilding the Neighborhood: Discovering Ecological Harmony Through Design with Habitats Along the Oak Ridges Trail
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-19)This thesis is a reflection on the impacts of suburban sprawl on ecosystem health and biodiversity in York Region, using a design proposal to repopulate pollinator habitat within the fabric of an existing neighborhood. The ... -
Re:Generation – A Model For Age-Inclusive Care
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)The Canadian population is aging. Seniors are becoming the fastest growing age group as a result of the aging of the baby boom generation, and a lowered fertility rate and an increase in life expectancy in the millennial ... -
Re:Linking Lachine
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-01)Since the undertaking of urban planning as a prescriptive discipline, landscape projects have demonstrated their ability to integrate valuable cultural spaces with the construction of complex infrastructural systems, ... -
The Reading Room: Revitalizing Andrew Carnegie's Vision for the Public Library
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)At the turn of the 20th century, Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in America, was transforming society through the endowment of thousands of free public library buildings to communities around the world. Carnegie conceived ... -
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 ... -
Reanimation: Redefining the Urban Network in St James Town, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)Urban intensification in the city of Toronto during the 1960s draws from the essential idea – “Tower in the Park”, a concept that we now recognize as pervasively problematic. These neighbourhoods are flooded with criticism ... -
REBUILDING OUR WATERS: An alternative view of Ontario cottage country through models of community engagement and shared environmental stewardship.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Cottaging is a ‘summer-home’ tradition for many Canadian families and plays an important role in Ontario’s cultural and provincial identity. The North-Hastings – East Haliburton area is a popular cottage destination; however ...