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Raze-or-Retrofit: Evaluation of Seattle's Commercial Building Stock for Energy Efficiency
(2012-08-10)Both my Architecture (M.Arch) and Planning (MUP) theses work around the rubric of the Architecture 2030 Challenge and the efforts of the Seattle 2030 District to meet it (2030DC - see http://www.2030district.org/seattle/ ... -
Re-Entangling The Urban Habitat: Exploring Housing Through An Architecture of Biodiversity
The last century has seen a dramatic decline in species populations and diversity across the globe. Today's methods of constructing cities and inhabiting regional landscapes has overwhelmed the homeostasis of Earth's life ... -
Re-Envisioning Rural Urban Development in Dali, China
In order to confront the country’s impressive rate of development, the Chinese government is planning to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed mega cities by the year 2025. Villages are to be demolished ... -
The Re-Exploration of Mine Site - A Solar Bathhouse and Passive Water Treatment System in the Desert
(2014-02-24)There are over five hundred thousand active and abandoned mine sites throughout the western United States, and it is projected that by the twenty-third century there will be over one hundred thousand square miles of ... -
Re-Frame: form-finding within the constraints of mutually supporting assemblies
This research is an investigation into the concept of the reciprocal frame as a means of generating sculptural architectural form within the limits of modular unit design. The development of expressive form involves a ... -
re-framing Fillmore East: Architecture and Music in the iPod City
(2013-07-23)Linked to the concept of the "performance", Architecture and Music serve to inform experiences of a given place. Often this culmination shifts to favor one art in this relatniship. Opening in 1968, the Fillmore East, a ... -
Re-imagining Energy on the Colville Reservation
Many abstract organizations and institutions influence our everyday behavior in modern life, making us less dependent and accountable to each other, and making it much more difficult for us to realize our collective goals. ... -
Re-Urbanizing Downtown Los Angeles: Micro Housing - Densifying the City's Core
(2014-02-24)As people start to move back from the suburbs to urban city centers, downtowns are beginning to become more dense and more expensive to live in. This growing density requires a responsible response by designers and cities ... -
re:Engineered: Exposing the the Architectural and Environmental Possibilities of New Structural Wood Composites
(University of Washington Graduate School, 2012)While wood is indisputably the most sustainable building material used in the Built Environment, very little of it is recycled at the end of a building’s life. Although both lumber quality and supply continue to decline ... -
Re:GEN An Alternative to Occupying Urban Space
Cities are growing at unprecedented rates. Simultaneously, society is beginning to experience physicality through a combined digital and social frame. We currently live within an economic and real estate system whose ... -
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Native indigenous history surrounds us, it is part of our creation story as the United States that has slowly been covered up, reinterpreted, and ultimately forgotten. How do we never forget; how can Native American ... -
Reactivation of a Post-Industrial Town through Adaptive Reuse
The thesis looks at a site in a small, post-industrial town in Fangzi, Weifang, Shandong, China, growing between the two World Wars, and is now facing a decrease in population. Along with the government movement and the ... -
Reading the Cosmic Landscape: An Observatory in the Nevada Desert
(2013-04-17)This thesis aims to restore value to the phenomenological experience of the desert through architecture, exploring the desert as a physical, cultural and experiential landscape that ideally lends itself to the study of ... -
Reading the “White Spatial Imaginary” in the Redevelopment of Yesler Terrace
This thesis considers the ways built environment practitioners, namely urban planners, architectural designers, and real estate developers, imagine the spaces they plan, design, and develop. In particular, it examines the ... -
Rebuilding a Nation: Cherokee Tribal Architecture, 1839-1907
The Cherokee Nation was forcibly relocated from their ancestral homeland in the American southeast to Indian Territory (in what is now the State of Oklahoma) in 1839. This thesis discusses the architectural history of the ... -
Recall A Chinese Traditional Residential Community -- “Hutong”
In the current modern Chinese society, especially in the city of Beijing, the traditional neighborhood development pattern of narrow alleys fronted by courtyard residences, referred to as “hutong” have lost their vitality, ... -
Reciprocity: Seattle's Housed Community Hosts a Network of Villages for Seattle's Unhoused Families
King County and the City of Seattle have been unable to reach their ten-year 2015 challenge to end homelessness; instead the rate of homelessness has increased 21% in the last year alone. Despite the difficulties in ... -
Reclaiming Altered Landscapes: The Bingham Canyon Mine Memorial
(2013-04-17)Open-Pit mining in America has created landscape alterations that are vast and permanent. These landscapes have created and erased entire communities in order to extract ore for human use. Despite their destructive character, ... -
Reclaiming Rocky Flats: Revealing Buried Cold War History
This thesis examines the reclamation of abandoned Cold War military infrastructure, where history has literally been buried by efforts to restore these sites to their original states. The contamination present at many of ... -
Reclaiming the Daylight Factory: The Significance of Versatility in the Preservation of Early Twentieth Century Concrete Frame Industrial Buildings in Dayton, Ohio
The daylight factory, a multi-story concrete frame industrial building that proliferated in the built environment in the early twentieth century, has become industrially obsolete. Despite this current status, the daylight ...