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Fabrication + Adaptation: A System for Replacing Elementary School Portable Classrooms Throughout California
Thirty percent of California public school facilities are made of portable buildings. Portable classrooms are uninspiring and inadequate spaces for learning, reflective of a cultural indifference for the education of ... -
Floa-Dation
Plastic was a blessing as an invention. It has bought the world many conveniences and wonderful new experiences. However, it has built up to become a threat, not only to human beings but, more so to the other creatures on ... -
Floating Metropolis: Resilient Infrastructure to Preempt Tsunami Inundation
Tsunamis and storm surges are some of the most destructive forces facing coastal cities. With the current rise in sea level, combined with the potential catastrophic impact of natural disasters, coastal regions of these ... -
Flyshare 2020
Transportation termini link people to social wellbeing, economic prosperity and the natural and built environments of the world. Altering and managing trends in transportation presents a major challenge in contemporary ... -
Food For Thought: Social & Historic Value of the Mid-century Supermarket
The modern supermarket emerged in the mid-20th century, responding to the evolving needs of the rapidly changing social and urban landscape in post-war America. Now ingrained in our culture and community, the phenomenon ... -
Forest Fire Lookouts in the North Cascades: From Utilitarian Sentry to Writer's Refuge
(2014-04-30)Beginning in the early 1900s, forest fire lookouts were constructed atop mountains throughout the west in an effort to eradicate forest fires. Each summer, operators in the isolated spaces had the opportunity to become ... -
Forest-Driven Futures: A Center for Advancement of Sustainable Forestry
Forests across the world are in a state of remission. Healthy forest ecosystems play a critical role in maintaining stable environmental conditions; if today’s climate change problems are caused by too much carbon dioxide ... -
Fragments of Home
This thesis explores the meaning of Filipino identity through the architecture of the home in its many forms. With emphasis on the culture of the Philippines and its long colonial history, the thesis recognizes the complexity ... -
FRIES ARE NOT A VEGETABLE. Urban Farm High School Grows Its Lunch and Its Curriculum
Each school day, Seattle public school children are served a lunch that does not reflect the city’s access to fresh food, its progressive attitudes on sustainability, nor its successful thriving industries. However, changing ... -
From A to B: An algorithmic approach to circulation inside buildings
Circulation design is a challenging part of the architectural design process. Architects traditionally address these challenges based largely on rules of thumb, personal experience, and simple tools. The modern environment, ... -
From Grain Elevator to Creamery: Reconnecting to the Working Landscape in Silvana, Washington
(2014-02-24)Our largely urban population is disconnected from rural agricultural landscapes, which distorts our perception of where our food comes from. This results in unhealthy eating habits, and leads to huge energy consumption ... -
From Necropolis to Metropolis: Bringing Death Back into Urban Life
This thesis seeks to explore the changing attitudes towards death through the design of funerary architecture that is resting place, processing facility, and public amenity. A new hybrid typology combining aspects of the ... -
From Quillayute
The site for this thesis is located in La Push, Washington at the mouth of the Quillayute River. Home to the Quileute tribe, La Push maintains a unique and vibrant community and culture. In the last decade La push has ... -
Future Histories
This thesis began with a study of Harbor Island, to gain a better understanding of place, both as a spatial, as well as a temporal entity. Expanding our comprehension of time beyond the Anthropocene, has revealed the ... -
Future HIstories
This thesis began with a study of Harbor Island, to gain a better understanding of place, both as a spatial, as well as a temporal entity. Expanding our comprehension of time beyond the Anthropocene, has revealed the ... -
Future Kent: Community Design through Storytelling in the Suburbs
(2014-02-24)American suburbs are ubiquitous and complex places. They are dynamic and evolving, and popular conceptions of them don't necessarily match reality. Much of this evolution is due to dramatic demographic shifts that have ... -
Future Kent: Community Design Through Storytelling in the Suburbs
(2014-02-24)American suburbs are ubiquitous and complex places. They are dynamic and evolving, and popular conceptions of them don't necessarily match reality. Much of this evolution is due to dramatic demographic shifts that have ... -
Future-Proofing: Seeking Resilience in the Historic Built Environment
Abstract Future-proofing is the process of anticipating future events and developing methods of adaptation. This process includes mitigation of negative effects while taking advantage of positive effects of changes, shocks, ... -
Garbage Dump Expertise : Tracing the 'Common Man' Project in the works of Aditya Prakash
This written work examines the relationship of "the common man" or the citizen, to the city though a historical account of the work of Aditya Prakash - an Indian modernist, who was part of the Capital Project Team -lead ... -
Garbage Dump Expertise : Tracing the 'Common Man' Project in the works of Aditya Prakash
This written work examines the relationship of "the common man" or the citizen, to the city though a historical account of the work of Aditya Prakash - an Indian modernist, who was part of the Capital Project Team -lead ...