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Browsing Architecture Masters Theses by Title
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Daylighting as Media: From Illusion in Chinese Gardens to Space in Modern Architecture
(2014-06-16)The intention of this thesis is to evaluate whether daylighting can be a media leading traditional concepts into today’s architectural design. Daylighting as a media not only an essential visual element in consisting ... -
Designing a green middle school as a 3-dimensional textbook: a thesis
The Teaching Green Building (TGB) initiative is gaining traction as a method to include the users of a building in conversations about environmental issues by means of the building's architectural design. If built ... -
Designing Fire Stations for the Health & Wellness of Firefighters & Their Communities
Fire departments are making procedural and cultural changes due to the results of research regarding the health effects of carcinogens and firefighters' behavioral health but, where is the change in fire station design? ... -
Designing for and from digital narratives
What would it look like if architecture more deeply valued the perspectives of the average people whose lives unfold upon it every day? Architecture exists within a public environment and in urban areas, the effect of both ... -
A different type of resilience:A paradigm shift for small post-industrial communities
Resilience is a term often used in design to refer to natural disaster relief through architectural practices. Yet, a new form of resilience could potentially serve as a paradigm shift for those cities and town seeking ... -
Disobsolesence: an approach to obsolete industrial sites within the rust belt
The rust belt region of the United States, a once prosperous industrial epicenter for the world, suffered from rampant disinvestment, deindustrialization, and a shrinking population since its height in the postwar period. ... -
Driving towards the future: developing the autonomous-electric vehicles identity and its impact on architecture
For over a hundred years, the internal combustion engine has been the primary method powering our vehicles. Initially perfected in Germany and France, American Henry Ford would bring the automobile to the masses with the ... -
Ecology and place in homesteading principles
Homestead, as a dictionary definition, consists of a dwelling and property where a family resides. However, the fundamental principles of sustainability, stewardship and engagement with the land plays an important ... -
Economic Development as a Precursor to Community Development
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Empowered networks: exploring digital equity & spatial subversion in the rohingya refugee settlements
This thesis aims to re-investigate effective placemaking in the humanitarian context, particularly in the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It will explore the impact of design in promoting digital equity within ... -
Empowering the architect to achieve sustainability
On their current trajectory, the paths of sustainability and economics are set to collide. An architect needs to be the salesperson, rather than an advocate, of net-positive design. In order for sustainability to succeed, ... -
Empowering Women of Bangladesh in the Garment Industry
Women’s empowerment is an important aspect of the social, political and economic life of developing countries. Globally, women’s economic and political empowerment performance has changed through education and labor, but ... -
Entangled Stewardship: Examining Contaminated Landscapes at the American Periphery
Beyond many American City cores exist a series of land uses characterized by waste, former infrastructures, homogeneous development, and ecologically entangled spaces of the American economy and productivity. This is ... -
Environmental Healing Through the Use of Nature and the Built Space
Integrative medicine and nature-based healing are effective ways to help those who are suffering medically to recover faster and more efficiently by utilizing the built, natural, and medical environments. Nature-based ... -
Evaluating cross cultural courtyard housing for social well being in Manhattan, New York
My inspiration towards working on housing living community emerged from the environment where I grew up in Bangladesh. I lived in a neighborhood where people avoided community places and lived alone. Housing affects both ... -
Experience Choreographed Through Light: Exploring the Emotive Nature of Daylighting
(2014-06-16)Winston Churchill once said, “First we shape our buildings, thereafter, they shape us”. This speaks both to how we design a building, and to the effect that design has on us. The challenge that is presented to us as ... -
Exploring brownfields: Revitalization with wetlands and golf courses
The idea of building a golf course near natural wildlife and complex ecosystems can be a controversial topic to the general public. Many believe that the chemicals used to balance the turf grass systems on the courses ...