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Architecture Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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Building Memories
Buildings matter because they are the symbols and the repositions of memory. Our lives are entangled with memories. Memory is the brain’s ability to store, retain or recall experiences during years. Remembering is the ... -
Rethinking the Retail Experience - From Technology to Social Engagement
The expression “going shopping” suggests an activity that supports people's need to be social. Participating in the retail experience allows for that need to be fulfilled. Shopping provides movement in a community and ... -
Addressing Homelessness as a means of Preserving the Urban Fabric
In 1772, Clarksburg, West Virginia, was a well known Appalachian city. Before the Great Depression, Clarksburg had a booming economy from coal and glass production. By the 21st Century, Clarksburg was a forgotten memory ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Architectural Spaces Promoting Active Learning and Progressive Educational Delivery for the Primary School Student
Education in the United States is failing the next generation. Students today advance through their education without the skills or passion for learning they will need to be marketable in their careers. And, our current ... -
Urban Green Space Rejuvenation – The Use of Regenerative Landscape Design ThroughBiophilia to Connect Humans back to Nature.
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction, stated American biologist and author” E. O. Wilson. The natural world has been altered over the past years, resulting in a ... -
Adapting to Climate Change through Architecture
An environmental crisis is unfolding around us. Our climate is continuously changing in dramatic rates. This paper explores the impact of climate change on the built environment, with the intent to find solutions for how ... -
Adaptive Design in Urban Flooding Conditions Case of Dar Es Salaam
Flooding hazards in urban areas is a worldwide problem. This is influenced by rapid urbanization, overpopulation, and the demand for a settlement that has exceeded the local housing stock. This leads to people living in ... -
The Intersection between Autonomous Vehicle and Built Environment
Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles are likely to replace the conventional vehicle in the near future throughout the world, however, the response and adaptation to this new change will vary in different countries ... -
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 ... -
Changing Our Food-Culture with Gastronomy and Architecture
Food, a necessity of life, brings cultures together and boosts tourism and communities across the world. Gastronomy, in this essay, is understood as how we think about, and engage food. We have lost our way in how we see ... -
Rethinking Shakhari Bazar: A Unique Urban Settlement of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shakhari Bazar is a three-hundred-year-old significant human settlement in the city of Dhaka, which as established during the Mughal period and later part of the British period. The Shakhari community, originating as a ... -
Influence of Technology on Atmosphere and Experience of Built Spaces
Technological advancements and its inexorable penetration in our ubiquitous life are constantly affecting our everyday experiences and behavioral patterns. Technology has a profound impact on nearly all aspects of contemporary ... -
Sustainable Integration Framework to Connect Displaced Communities with Host Nations
The term “displaced” refers to an individual or group of individuals who are forced from their home place because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. Hence, displaced people have had to leave their homes to another ... -
Reinstating Rohingya: Architecture for the wellbeing of humanity
Rohingya refugees are currently residing in the southeast side of Bangladesh, which is near Myanmar border. There have been numerous Rohingya refugees living in that area for a while, and over the time their number ... -
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 ... -
Virtual design: Improving architecture through immersive creation
Mixed reality devices in today’s world have only just begun emerging from the origins in the video game and entertainment industry. As these devices advance, their usefulness grows across other aspects of our lives, and ... -
Reimagining rail travel in the United States
The increase of congestion in American cities is creating a slower and more expensive commute for the average American passenger in major cities. Convenience and speed are incredibly important to the average American ... -
Libraries as a facilitator of community engagement in the urban environment
Libraries are essential elements to the life of our communities as they provide many assets to community members and act as catalysts for civic engagement. Tightened government budgets in the United States have threatened ...