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Browsing Architecture Masters Theses by Title
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Off the Grid: Survival Ideas for Sustainable Living
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Olympic Legacy:Flexible Architectural Strategies for Boston's 2024 Olympics Proposal
The Olympics present the perfect opportunity for host cities to show their value to the world. This opportunity introduces immeasurable pressure to create an impressive display of entertainment for the spectators. The ... -
Outward bound: developing strategies for the future of spaceports
Human desires to reach the cosmos stretch back to prehistory. Only in modern times has this become possible With the advent of an emerging private sector oriented toward space exploration and travel, it is essential to ... -
Perception and Function in Occupant-Space Relationship
(2012-09-14)How can architects improve the relationship between the occupant and the space in regards to offering the occupant and enjoyable experience, which also fulfills their needs and expectations of function? Among many design ... -
Planting Urban Buildings: Cooling and Connection in the Built Environment
Urban architectural design and construction is advancing toward greater symbiosis with the natural environment. A complex and promising trend situates plants on the building exterior, encouraging absorptive surfaces and ... -
A Poetic Martian Habitat
In August 2013, I learned that anyone from all around the world could register and volunteer to be a member of first Red Planet Colonist project. I wanted to register the same night, but when I checked the website the ... -
The promotion of ecological economics in Abrafo-Odumase Ghana, Africa
In the twenty-first century global economy communities either profit and thrive, or they do not. According to United Nation (UN) statistics, nearly 82 percent of the world’s population lives in a developing country moving ... -
Proposing a sustainable urban design by the introduction of a new multi-modal transportation system in the United States: A case study in Oxford, Ohio
Since the 20th century, considerable attention is paid in the United States to how sustainability applies in several mid-size American cities. Sustainable urban design leads to having a more convenient life, while improving ... -
Psychological and Physiological Rehabilitation: Restoration by Natural Environment
The environment presents the nonprofit sky’s gifts: sun, air, rain, view, even Terrain. It is an environment’s instrument that could be a gift or a design problem, so the genuineness is how to use this element right to ... -
Public transit systems and community planning: Reconnecting the city
How do you get from point A to point B within a city? The most obvious answer would seem to be to get in your car and simply drive there. This works for many commuters and seems to do well enough. But what if you don’t ... -
Pushing the envelope: A new methodology for facade attachment
One of the most fundamental aspects of architecture is the act of enclosure. In the built environment, the walls, roofs, and floors of a building become thresholds between physical realms, separating space and function, ... -
[Re]investing in education: enhancing education through design
Education, much like architecture, has the power to shape the ways in which we live and how we interact with the world around us. Through thoughtful architectural design, is it possible to design an environment that ... -
Rebranding Detroit: music, identity, and perception in the new post-industrial era
(2014)In post-industrial society, economic globalization has overpowered local culture. By establishing a mobilized task force to achieve top levels of efficiency, society has effectively reduced identity and spirit through ... -
Reclaim, remediate, & revitalize: environmental injustice in Detroit, MI
This thesis study investigates the effects of living in toxic communities and the relationship between humans and the natural environment. The industrial revolution brought many new forms into urban/industrial cities. ...