“A series” by Chanel Dehond was recently featured on SUPER//ARCHITECTS, a platform for students, professors and critical thinkers to engage in dialogue. We encourage everyone to get their work out there and send your studio designs, personal projects and thesis work to BRIDGE at submit@waterlooarchitecture.com and to SUPER//ARCHITECTS.
Simeon Rivier’s thesis proposes a new design vision for the Cornwall Canal Lands, developing a strategy applicable to all post-industrial communities along the St. Lawrence River border. The project utilizes three very specific frameworks in expanded roles; the existing infrastructure as a network, the post-industrial requirement of environmental regeneration, and interpersonal interactions to re-establish strong waterfront communities. Defence will take place on June 3, 2015 at 10:00 AM in ARC 2008
Lise van Overbeeke’s thesis “BeniAtlas’: An interface for the informal city” establishes a mapping framework for the community of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo to unite data from bottom-up and top down sources and enable communication and partnership between different actors in the community. Her thesis defence takes place on Wednesday June 3, 2015 at 10:00 AM in the Main Lecture Hall.
Kurt Kraler’s essay “The Spectacularization of Urban Development on the Las Vegas Strip,” recently published in Planning Forum Volume 16, extends from his thesis research exploring the unique economic and spatial legislature which has produced the distinct urban form of the Las Vegas.
Srinidhi Sridhar’s thesis entitled The Creek and The Garden speculations on the insertion of Community Garden System into neighborhood parks along the Garrison Creek. The thesis defence will take place on Tuesday June 2nd at 1:00PM in ARC 2003.
Christina Chan’s thesis identifies Toronto’s PATH system as a non-place, a collection of private spaces in the city. She explores the possibility of unifying its fragments with minimal architectural incisions that would surgically mend the system with the objective of achieving effective utilization of the PATH by a full spectrum of people. Her defence is this Friday, May 8, 2015 at 10 :00 AM in ARC 2026.
Sundus Shaikh’s thesis analyzes the evolving conditions of the Gerrard Bazaar as a prototypical declining ethnic enclave and generates a manual of design guidelines which promote new networks of “cultural exchange” for the gentrifying neighbourhood. She defends her thesis on Friday May 1, 2015 at 12:30 PM in ARC 2003
“Halfway between reality and fantasy, that’s where the Grange Hotel is found.” Dan Kwak’s thesis entitled The Grange Hotel diagnoses urban leisure through a subliminal layer of imaginative absurdity within the existing local environment. His defence is on Friday May 1, 2015 at 3:00PM in ARC Loft.
Kyle Jensen will defend is thesis entitled “Optimizing Structure: An Investigation into Lightweight Structures” on Tuesday April 21, 2015 at 6:00 PM Lawrence Cummings Lecture Theatre (ARC 1001). His research which explores the potential for tensile structures to reduce a building’s embodied energy and improve sustainable architectural practices.
Tristan van Leur’s thesis “Public Place networks in Privately-Owned Space” employs networking online spaces will reactivate and redefine the public realm. His design proposition,Spacebook, is a spatial social network situated within the POPS, that uses the abilities of network and data-driven technologies to affect the physical environment.