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Datascapes: Revealing the Potential of Data to Design Neighborhoods for the Future
Data is everywhere. The contemporary built environment is managed and influenced by data both visible and hidden. A wealth of information is now collected and stored from every aspect of our daily lives. Architects and ... -
Deaf-First Architecture: An Educational Design Framework for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
The Deaf culture is one of, if not the only, people group with a culture and language that does not have a recognized building vernacular. Architecture has yet to respond to the needs of the deaf in a meaningful way. ... -
Delocalization: The Highway Apparatus
Delocalization examines a post “urban/city” condition of development along the highway corridor between Delhi and Chandigarh in India. It imagines the process of development as an emergence through the refrain of the local, ... -
The Depot: A New Intermodal Transit Facility in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
For over 100 years, railroad development has been resisted within Afghanistan even as foreign powers have vied for control. Due to current efforts driven by foreign investment, a seventy-five kilometer section of railroad ... -
[Design + Development] Architectural Agency through Real Estate Development
This thesis proposes that architects can have a greater impact on the built environment if they understand real estate development and assume the role of being their own client. The intent of this thesis is to explore the ... -
Design for 203X: Living Architecture for the Sustainable Transition
This thesis presents a vision of how residential architecture must change to address the challenges of climate change and housing affordability while accommodating growth. The investigation spans the past, present, and ... -
Design For Dignity: A Supportive Housing Community for Families and Youth
Homelessness is not a recent social and cultural phenomenon in the United States, and chances are it will not disappear anytime soon. Although chronic homelessness in middle-aged males is on the decline, families and ... -
Design for Reassembly: Facing the Demands of Housing by Imagining a Flexible Future
The construction of new housing is expected to double over the next decade and the methods by which we currently design and build new homes continues to contribute to a culture of waste. The pressures that our economies ... -
Designing for Disassembly in the Built Environment
This thesis explores opportunities for extending the life of a building and its components through Design for Disassembly (DfD). Our current way of constructing the built environment is “fixed” and difficult to change. ... -
Designing Happenstance: Spatial Agency + Appropriation in Architecture
Spatial agency is enacting the freedom to choose to do or not to do something in/with/on the world around you. It is the recognition that everyone has a part to play in making the world around them. Appropriation is the ... -
Designing Mixed-Income Communities: Comparing New Urbanism and Everyday Urbanism to Narratives and Lessons Learned from Three Design Teams of Three HOPE VI Projects
(2013-04-17)This thesis systematically examines linkages among deconcentration of poverty in US public housing programs, and the Everyday Urbanism and New Urbanism movements. A hybrid-urbanism concept appears to emerge from the research ... -
Designing with Patterns and Objects: A Methodology for Elevating Client Collaboration in the Design Process for Small and Medium Sized Projects
Architectural practice emerges through complex interactions among interested parties that can last the course of months or even years. These interactions can sometimes be overwhelming for clients of small & medium sized ... -
Developing Olmsted: Combatting Contemporary Health Problems through Century Old Design Ideas.
This thesis analyzes the health motives which influenced Olmsted when designing parks and park systems. It focuses on the influence that rapid industrialization and urbanization and the health issues that stemmed from these ... -
Dicho House
This thesis is an exploration in process as much as product. The process and origin of this thesis were deeply personal, the result aims to retain a sense of the genuine while also applying to the broader conversation of ... -
Digital Mass: A Transparent E-Waste Infrastructure for Seattle
The production of consumer electronics has accelerated over the last several decades due to rapidly advancing technologies. As a result, new electronics become obsolete almost the moment they leave the shelf, creating a ... -
Drought + Deluge: An Amphibious Neighborhood for Mexico City's Urban Poor
Mexico City’s water cycle is broken. Rain is falling but doesn’t make it underground to the aquifer of potable water, causing severe floods. Evapotranspiration is accelerated before water can be used by people, causing ... -
DWELLING, COMMUNITY, AND RESILIENCE: Reimagining Tomorrow in Port-Au-Prince
People throughout the world have a need and right to housing that is both comfortable and durable. Within a country, there is also a need for a strong architectural built infrastructure of services and support, but many ... -
Dynamic Balance_school as living system
Currently, the scale and speed of human progress is disproportionate to live sustainably within the environment. This type of progress has forced us to choose between the continuation of human excess or the balance and ... -
Dynamic Shading: An Analysis
(2013-07-23)Efficient use of energy is vital. Electric lighting contributes to a significant part of the total energy use in the US. Efficient use of daylighting offers a significant reduction in overall energy use. However, because ... -
EBOSS- Evolutionary Building Operations Systems Solver
An individual wakes up every morning and prepares themselves for the day by checking the daily forecast either through their phone or by the news. In response to either the hot or cold temperature, amount of precipitation, ...