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Architecture Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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Itinerancy and shelter in the 21st century: exploring dignified living solutions for unsheltered communities
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the numbers of homeless individuals has been on the rise since 2017, increasing 2% between 2019 and 2020 alone (“State of Homelessness: 2021 Edition). With statistics ... -
Symbiosis: Revitalizing Houma tribal identity through community cultural spaces
Earth’s climate has altered over time. There have been seven glacial advance and retreat cycles in the last 650,000 years, with the abrupt conclusion of the last ice age marking the start of the con temporary climate era ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Rust belt revitilization: retrofitting communities through transit oriented development
The American Railway system increased rapidly in the late and early 19th century altering the dynamics of surrounding cities and their role in urbanism. Railways, a product of the Industrial Revolution, fundamentally ... -
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 ... -
Intersections In The Architecture Surface: The Facade as an Interface for Ecological Development
Intersections In The Architecture Surface is an extensive inquiry into the facade and transitional interior/exterior thresholds that control the ecological conditions of the built environment and how we interact with ... -
The void in between urban neighborhood: the urban context of Dhaka
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and one of the most crowded cities on earth, is almost three times as dense as Manhattan. The city’s edge is constantly evolving to respond to the never-ending needs. In this thesis, I ... -
Redefining architectural solutions for mental health: Issue 001 : leveraging biophilic design
The connection between architectural design and mental health is significant, yet largely goes unrecognized. Although hospitals are capable of helping treat mental health, an argument can be made that, in many cases, these ... -
Herspace: redefining urban retail space for women
The thesis ‘HERspace’ examines the intersection of gender equity and bazaar/retail architecture in the postcolonial world, with a particular focus on women's right to commercial spaces. Drawing on the works of postcolonial ... -
Exploring the future of ecology and missing middle housing in a dispersed metropolis
As complex beings we are striving for improvement and change. Idealists planned for Garden or Radiant cities to alleviate the filth and disease of crowded industrial cities. Development spurred by the automobile created ... -
The implications of mass timber in high-rise buildings with a focus on innovative hotel design
In the 21st century, the focus of architecture has moved toward sustainability. Sustainability has become a fundamental aspect of each architecture design and there are several certificates including LEED or Passive House ... -
Navigation through space: designing a recreational center with the principle of neuroscience
Neuroscience is a field that explores the nervous system, while NeuroArchitecture is a relatively new branch that examines how environments and places impact our physiological responses. Our neural responses to our ... -
Tokyo voids: Extending Tokyo's public realm through it's forgotten voids
Despite global population growth, Japan's population is experiencing a decrease in population, contractions in part due to low birth rates, aging majority, and high life expectancy. As such, 10% of homes in Japan lay ... -
Riverscape metropark: Educating the public about the aquatic environment
Most of the buildings people encounter simply reside in their environment with no way of being able to tell its story. They are placed in a complex landscape to fulfill a role for humanity-a passive state of being at ... -
Changing views: Exploring pathways in the Motor City
Pathways have informed movement and experience for a hundred years. Those pathways implied how we live, travel and the establishment of place. New modes of transportation shifted how people move, creating the need for ... -
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 ... -
Regenerating the "Model City"
The post World War II era is famous for the Baby Boomer generation and the birth of suburbia, both of which caused a major demographic shift at the time. The impact of these shifts is still felt today as the population ... -
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 ... -
Neighborhood rebuilding centers: imagining a more cooperative future for urban rust belt neighborhoods
Cohousing and coliving are two housing forms that aim to address loneliness and encourage better social connection through shared common spaces and intentional community design. These housing concepts have not yet taken ...