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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 ... -
Built Environment that Enhances Children's All-round Development-Vidyalaya
India is one among the ten fastest growing economies in the world but suffers in terms of literacy contributing to 34% of the worlds illiterate population. In India English is the primary language for government, business ... -
Creating Conducive Environments for Dar Es Salaam's Street Children Through Archiecture
How can architecture be part of a solution to the difficult lives of street children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania? In Dar es Salaam, street children exist in poverty without family support, education, or technical skills. ... -
Architecture of repose: Creating moments for retreat and intimacy
The fast-paced nature of contemporary culture acts as a catalyst for anxiety due to overstimulation. This paper explores how the built environment can be designed in order to bring people from a state of overstimulation ... -
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Baseball, Education, and the Community
Professional baseball is one of the most affluent American sports. However, cities that house Minor League stadiums receive relatively small benefits, despite the huge investment, risk, and financial strain stadiums impose ... -
Beyond Mechanical Limits: Cohousing and Permaculture
This research aims to achieve two objectives. The first objective is to minimize and eliminate building contributions to climate change starting from a domestic prototype. The second is to increase the role of architecture ... -
Kairos :Progressiveness Encouraged through Architecture
Progressiveness is defined as gradual betterment; especially: the progressive, or continually improving, development of humankind. Humans have a subconscious desire for progressiveness; this is best exhibited in the modern ... -
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 ... -
Integrating Islamic Cultural Identity Preservation in the Urban Fabric of the United States
The post-displacement phase of Islamic migrants in the urban fabric of the United States as a democratic country creates a bicultural identity. Muslims have been concerned about their identity preservation in 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...