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Reinforcing community: an Asian cultural complex in an international context
(2014)February 2011, it was the time for the annual Chinese New Year Celebration in the local Cincinnati Chinese community again. This is also the first time I attend this event since I came to States. Sitting quietly at the ... -
Layer City: Redesign Skyscrapers
(2014-05-22)My thesis is dealing with the urban construction---skyscrapers,nowadays, the urban fabric is pronominally skyscraper driven in major cities. I started my paper from my own city experience. While the skyscraper in New York ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Contemporary Architecture in the Bahamas Viewed Through the Lens of Critical Regionalism
(2014-06-16)Critical Regionalism is a term that came about during the early 1980’s. It deals with designing architecture based on specific and unique characteristics of a region including geographical, economical, and cultural conditions. ... -
The City: A Place of Places Examining the Role of Place and Architecture Inside the Urban Fabric
(2014-06-16)The city is a composition of individuals. Every resident in a city builds their own place and is built by those places that surround them. It is this interaction of places that make the city unique; transforming the city ... -
Aquatecture: Designing Water Adaptable Architecture in Ko Kret, Thailand as a Flood Solution
(2014-06-16)This paper will address a new approach towards architecture reflecting on the consequences of the city’s land based building practice in ecology that is predominantly water based. There is a need for opportunities to work ... -
My Home Among the Hills: Revitalizing Placemaking and Identity in West Virginia
(2014-06-16)This paper will explore the current model of museums as a civic institution, their current role in society and why a reevaluation of contemporary civic institutional design is needed; especially in rural regions. Critiques ... -
Finding Home: Opportunities for Placemaking in Albuquerque, New Mexico
(2014-06-16)This paper examines the process of placemaking. It examines the differences between placemaking strategies in single family detached houses and multiple residential buildings, i.e. apartments, condominiums, townhomes, etc. ... -
Towards a Closed-loop Community: Creating a Sustainable Seed in the Urban Environment
(2014-06-16)In the coming years resource stress and waste management will continue to become two of the world’s biggest issues. If order to conserve resources and reduce waste that our cities produce I believe that we will need to ... -
Manifesting Movement
Are you stressed? What makes us so stressed? With my proposed research I hope to find how we can use the study of human movement through built space and sensory environments to shape an architecture that can help relieve ... -
Transforming ghost-boxes: From abandonment to engaging community individuality
Since the 1960s, big-box stores have defined retail shopping for American suburbs. However, these megastores are becoming abandoned at alarming rates due to economic decline and expansion. Large retailers, such as Wal-Mart, ... -
Seeking public space: Architecture, democracy and citizenship in Turkey
Architecture is fundamentally a political activity. What makes living interesting is the environment that changes constantly, and politics is not only the essence of this alternating environment, but also it is the ... -
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 ... -
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 ...