Browsing Architecture by Title
Now showing items 85-104 of 512
-
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 ... -
Cathedrals of Power: Re-energizing Historic Power Systems
By providing a regional resource, electric power systems have provided urban environments unprecedented means for growth and expansion from the late 1800’s to 1930’s, as discussed by Thomas Hughes, in Networks of Power. ... -
CENTER FOR BIRD REHABILITATION AND PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNION BAY NATURAL AREA
Bird populations around the Puget Sound are increasingly threatened by habitat loss due to the urban development and growth of Seattle. Urban development not only destroys natural habitats, but also creates a new, lethal ... -
Changing Habits: a think tank for Catholic women religious
(2013-04-17)Part think tank, part headquarters, part social, and part political, this thesis exemplifies the evolving position of the church in today's fluctuating society. Many religious and lay people alike are not only open to ... -
Chimera Obscura: wayfinding vestiges in rural Iceland
University of Washington Abstract Chimera Obscura: wayfinding vestiges in rural Iceland Jena Maureen Restad Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Kimo Griggs, Associate Professor Architecture As tourists, we travel to learn, ... -
Choreographing Urban Habitation: Strategies for Enhancing Public Space in the City
The basis of this thesis is the perceived need for more spaces that generate human scale and facilitate opportunities for individual reflection and social interaction in the public realm of the city. It proposes the design ... -
Chronotopia: A Festival for a Pluralist Public Realm
As cities continue to densify and are driven by late capitalist motivations, the public realm is shrinking. In areas of the urban realm where privatization has historically made its marks, an exploration of permanent and ... -
Cloud Camp: Refuge Above Paradise
(2014-02-24)Due to the heavy use during peak climbing months and extreme climatic conditions of Camp Muir's Historic District this thesis proposal seeks to rejuvenate, re-design and provide an innovative and appropriate pre-fabricated ... -
Cloud Space: An Architecture of the Third Environment
While today’s society is becoming increasingly saturated by the technology of digital communication, there are few built traces of these complicated networks. Undetectable to the human eye and yet palpable in the impact ... -
CODE to MATTER - Integrating Industrial Robotic Arms: Reconciling the Rapid Advancement of Digital Potentials with a Tangible Physical Existence
In the context of digital fabrication in architecture, this thesis is an initial exploration into the use of a 6-axis industrial robotic arm in architectural design. Industrial robots are most commonly known for their use ... -
Cognition in Architecture: A Residential Design Prototype for the Autistic User
Creating a connection between a person and space by designing a space around the minds of its inhabitants is one of the most powerful things architecture can do. There is great potential to address the human mind and body ... -
Cohousing: A Spatial Embodiment of the Collective Ideal
Cultural narratives and art that are experienced and created are a way to understand how spaces are designed and how social relationships in private and public spaces are performed. This thesis argues that the ideals behind ... -
COLLABORATIVE LIVING 2.0: AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL OF LIVING IN THE SHARING CITY
The sharing economy is a new economic model of resource sharing and distribution. With an exponential growth in value in the past ten years, it is becoming a major part of the global economy. The impact of the sharing ... -
Collect, Blend, Disperse: A Hybrid Strategy for the Othello Neighborhood
(2012-08-10)This project aims at the idea of making unemployed minority youth and low-income families in the ethnically diverse Othello neighborhood to become self-sufficient and to become contributing members in their communities by ... -
Community Warmth: Returning a lost building type to the village and Nunakauyarmiut people of Toksook Bay, Ak
Restoring continuity to the built environment of Toksook Bay, Ak, by identifying a vital building type that is no longer found and whose program has not been absorbed by the current lexicon of architectural types. Imagining ... -
CommunityCare: An Outpatient Autoimmune Clinic
(2013-04-17)A diagnosis of a chronic illness, and specifically an Autoimmune disease, tends to marginalize and isolate what is a growing global affected population. After diagnosis, patients are typically sent to specialized clinics ... -
Concrete Nurse Logs: Spawning Biodiversity from Ballard’s Century-Old Locks
This thesis embraces the task of biodiversity conservation within the realm of architecture. In the midst of an anthropogenic mass extinction on Earth—the most menacing of the current environmental crises—it advocates for ... -
Configurable Space: Architectural Robotics at the Scale of Furniture
The subject of architectural robotics is an important contemporary issue that urges effort of investigation and understanding in a changing technological world. The Digital Revolution, which is the shift from analog and ...