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Bot+Bot: Multi-Robot Collaboration in Architecture
The use of robots in architecture and construction has gained importance in the last few years. They offer the possibility to change the way we build, expand the design ideas and possibilities, and add more automation on ... -
Breathing City: Food Hub Design in Othello Neighborhood of Seattle
This thesis investigates the planning and design strategies that architects can use to reduce the waste and pollution generated by human activities, as well as produce new energy. This project designs with the flow of food, ... -
A Bridge to the Mississippi: A Transportation Museum on the St. Louis Riverfront
(2014-02-24)St. Louis, like many riverfront cities around the world, has become isolated from the river upon which it was founded, the Mississippi. This thesis proposes a new riverfront transportation museum for St. Louis, as a means ... -
Bridging the Past and Future, Mitigating the conflicts between cultural identity and contemporary needs in Yuliang , China
Because of the rapid urbanization in China, especially after the 1980s, lots of historical villages are facing the threat of abandonment or demolition. Many remaining villages are still waiting for appropriate preservation ... -
Bringing the Farm to the Table: Reinventing the Slaughterhouse for Seattle
(2013-04-17)This thesis posits a new prototype for the slaughterhouse, a model that houses the utilitarian functions of slaughtering and processing and reveals those functions to the community by providing informal and formal education. ... -
Bringing the Neighbor Back to the 'Hood: A Creative Re-Appropriation of Vacant Land on Detroit's Eastside
(2013-04-17)The loss of place and devastation of a community is an all-too-common reality in many post-industrial cities like Detroit. The attempts of numerous top-down development projects have been largely unsuccessful in addressing ... -
Brundlund Slotspark: A Proposal for a Culture Park in Aabenraa, Denmark
This thesis proposes a culture park in Aabenraa, a small city in the south of Denmark. Today Aabenraa faces many challenges: a high relocation rate, competition from big cities, and cultural institutions that need to be ... -
Building as a Pedagogy, Rural School on Ridge of Loess Plateau
New schools in rural China often-time are driven by blind pursuit of modernity and executed by methods that diminish human dignity, erode human well-being, disconnect human with nature, local community and cultural tradition. ... -
Building Better Schools: A New Model for Autism Inclusion in Seattle
A growing number of children in the United States are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and receive education within mainstream public schools. While research indicates that most special education classrooms ... -
Building Community, Building Capacity: Revitalization Through Reuse
(2012-09-13)This thesis proposes the redevelopment of a supermarket site at the center of the Rainier Beach Urban Village at the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and South Henderson Street in Seattle Washington, reusing the existing ... -
Building Futures: Framework for the Contemporary Native School
Building Futures is a response to the social, cultural, and environmental challenges facing Native tribes of the Southwest, with the goal of addressing adverse impacts on Native youth and their schools. The proposal argues ... -
Building in Craft: A Community Founded and Sustained with Industry
This thesis integrates research of factory-based production and design and building with heavy-timber into the composition of a production facility that serves as a generator and resource for a neighborhood. The “factory”, ... -
Building Language: A Traditional Andean Language Center In Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, Peru
(2014-02-24)This thesis conceives of language as the foundation of culture, and explores the creation of a Native Andean Language Center in Cuzco, Peru, as a means of combatting homogenization, pastiche, and social denigration in ... -
Building Out of Place
The Skagit River Delta is defined by agrarian culture and farming’s relationship to the land. However, history shows the recurrence of extreme flooding, and campaigns of consolidation have embedded a pattern of separation: ... -
Built Lens: Designing Environmental Engagement on Flathead Lake
(2014-04-30)This thesis explores the capacity of the built environment to serve as a lens in mediating man's relationship with the relatively un-built environment at a site located on Flathead Lake. Our presence on Flathead Lake in ... -
Burning Village: Deployable, Scalable, Open Source Camp Infrastructure for Burning Man
Burning Man Camps are wildly variable, highly unpredictable, and extremely individualized, temporary autonomous communities existing within the larger decentralized network that is Burning Man. However, this chaotic network ... -
(by)Metrics (by)Design: Building for Endurance
(2013-04-17)University of Washington Master's Thesis Abstract (by)Metrics (by)Design: Building for Endurance David Ronald Fish Chair of Supervisory Committee: Asst. Professor Kathrina Simonen, Chair Department of Architecture College ... -
Castles In Air - A Burke Avenue Story
In the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, dwelling, a state of peace in one’s surrounding, is not simply facilitated by, but rather, contingent on architecture itself. Heidegger, though, plainly states that not all architecture ... -
Catalytic Parking: Creating new possibilities in an integrated suburban parking garage
Parking garages are ubiquitous and indispensable to modern suburban life, yet they are one of the most unpopular and criticized building types. Though important places of arrival and departure, movement and transition, ... -
Catalytic Urbanism: Encouraging Urban Vitality in Spokane, Washington Through Modular Development
(2013-04-17)By the early 1960's Spokane, Washington's downtown, which had ballooned rapidly with railroad expansion, was faced with a downtown core that was underutilized, dilapidated, and blighted. In a citywide effort to restore the ...