StoryCube Pictures (by AN Meyer)

StoryCube (by AN Meyer)

With my storycube, I wanted to examine proportion and repetition, often seen in subtle, mundane ways, and in turn exploring their connection to the UW campus. Medieval cathedrals were built by architects whose designs conformed to the proportional system of musical harmony, “There must be no decorations, only proportion”.
And although there are no choirs performed [...]

StoryCube – Overhill

The assignment offers several tempting directions. The physicality of the paper cube itself establishes a resonance with the physicality of the geometrically squared room within which the cube assignment was given. In winter, in Canada, the physicality of space is an interior one. Taking pictures selectively of the room’s interior discovers a variety of flat [...]

STORY CUBE: Trapped at UW

While photographing the campus, I found the architecture to be very static, repetitive and dismissal. This caused me to reflect on the social atmosphere I felt that I had experienced, over my years at UW. Although the university is intended to be a place of growth, innovation and inspiration, it has actually felt almost like [...]

Paths

My story cube demonstrates one of the various paths that i take when i am walking to or from my classes.  It is a series of pictures of the buildings that i see on the way home from Tuesday and Thursday morning class.  Each picture also demonstrates the different options for paths there are to take  to [...]

Previsualization

This cube contains spaces which in my opinion have been underutilized, neglected or simply abused by insensitive use of materials (asphalt in particular). To me the campus is in many ways a city or at least functions like a city. Production, reproduction, proximity, form of government, capitalization, and place are all fundamental properties of a [...]

Catherine Telford-Keogh’s Story Cube

Thinking about my experience of the campus at the University of Waterloo, I cannot think of the campus as a whole, but rather the specific spaces in which I have placed a mark or spaces that have marked me. My story cube is a compilation of spaces that I will never forget once leaving the [...]

Story Cube – the underused environment

CubeOriginally uploaded by waiming1My impression towards the university environment, architecture, and open spaces is uninspiring and fragmented, as shown in the patchwork execution of the photos on the Cube. Given the haphazard layout of different functionalist buildings and public spaces, the built environment on campus is in lack of a sense of unity, nor is [...]

Cube: Vicky Huang

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Originally uploaded by secondk28

My cube is focusing on student’s reaction and characteristic. Instead of the buildings, streets, or lights, I see people stress out for studying and having coffee. My cube explores the evidence of stresses and worries from the students on campus. On the other side of my cube explores the rules or [...]

Story Cube – Andrew Guaglio

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Originally uploaded by andrewguaglio

My story cube focuses on the variety of weathering processes that affect the buildings on campus. Each side depicts the results of a different type of weathering on the materials that make up the buildings and walkways. Some examples include the chemical weathering of concrete due the leaching of [...]

A Search For History

At first I had three main ideas for the storycubes regarding sharing my view of waterloo. I first came up with the idea of taking pictures that illustrated a typical day for me. But instead I wanted to illustrate or more so educate students of the history of the University of Waterloo. [...]

Story Cube – Leslie-Anne Purdy

Story Cube – UW Campus, Circular Design
Originally uploaded by la_purdy

I noticed as I walked around campus this week that a lot of our buildings have an element of circular or semi-circular design. So I decided to sit in these circular spaces and think about the purpose of this design. The commonality that I found between [...]

Story Cube: Christina Gatchene

My story cube is a study of the distribution of patterns and materials, and their function and significance toward the University of Waterloo campus. There’s five photos included in the cube which show some sources of pattern and repitition. These examples of patterning don’t serve any significant functional purpose, but simply draw the viewers eye [...]

“One Waterloo”

One Waterloo
Originally uploaded by rvangurp
For my StoryCube, I chose to focus on the positive and negative aspects of the university’s architecture and planning, in order to contribute to a discussion about how the built aspects of the campus either aid or are an impediment to the establishment of a unified socio-cultural and academic environment.
Two particular [...]

Storycube: by Katie Thiel

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Originally uploaded by katiethiel

Heather’s Story Cube

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Originally uploaded by heather voituk

When I think of U of W, the first thing that comes to mind is acquiring knowledge. For my story cube, I decided to present the places that I have found to be great study areas. I began by taking two photos of the Dana Porter library. I often study in [...]

Rachael’s Story Cube

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Originally uploaded by artrachael

For my story cube I chose to focus on aspects of our campus that sometimes go unnoticed and forgotten, when we think of the buildings on our campus. I chose to photograph areas that have encompassed the natural environment that surrounds us; these areas allow us to study, think and just [...]

Final Cube

Final Cube
Originally uploaded by czvannelli

Image for Student as an Educator

Campus Space by Jen Stanfel

I designed my story cube to reflect the changes UW has made and continues to make on campus space. As the university grows, the campus space we have now is used to fit an increasing number of people and activities, and buildings to house these people and activities. Walkers have at present, mostly, a pleasant, [...]

StoryCube – Kristina Rogers

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Originally uploaded by kristinarogers

My StoryCube looks at the edges of the University campus. On two sides of the cube I have shown how these edges can be a defined space. Through the photos on the four other sides I am showing how these edges get blurred. At what point is one on campus or off [...]

Katie Gatenby storycube

My cube focuses on the patterns and relationships in the geometric shapes of the buildings and art works around campus. Most people don’t notice the details, some which are quite obvious, until they are separated from the whole and pointed out to them. The cube shows the relationships of one building to another, [...]

Story Cube by Rebecca MacDonald

Author Jerry Mander, defined our modern spaces as artificial environments that deprive the senses. My cube explores the artificial environment created by the University of Waterloo. The Grad House is the only remaining reference to the Mennonite farms that the University is built on. The B2 Green, the large green space separating the math building [...]

StoryCube- Amy Lyons

Because I live a 40 minute drive away from the University of Waterloo, mobility, in the sense of getting to school and around campus, is a large part of my day. For this reason I chose to document instances of mobility, such as underground tunnels, walkways and directional signs on my StoryCube. These images incorporate [...]

Story Cube – Colin Carney

My cube is an examination of our building’s air infrastructure. I have focused the images on two key elements concerning air flow in ECH. On three sides, visible at once, the cube shows intake pathways which are responsible for gathering air, inhaling as it were. When flipped, the cube shows three of the exhaust pathways that appear on the [...]

Student as an Educator

The interaction between students and their specific use of the campus is an interesting one. With my Story Cube, I wish to explore the student as an educator and facilitator of change within the university community and among their peers. In a time where social justice and environmental concerns are becoming increasingly important, there is [...]