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Cultivating Workplace Well-being: A Living Office Renewal
Many contemporary tech industry office buildings are designed so that they isolate workers from nature. Exposure to nature is beneficial to human well-being, especially to social, psychological, and physical well-being. ... -
Cultural Exchange: A New Center for Seattle's Asian Immigrants
The city of Seattle is experiencing a rapid growth in its immigrant population, having increased 40 percent between 1990 and 2000. Today, immigrants make up 17.3 percent of the total population in comparison to the national ... -
Cultural Lifeboats: Distribution Network Facilities for Barrow, Alaska
Coastal Communities throughout the world are suffering from the effects of rising sea levels due to climate change and/or melting polar and glacier ice. This thesis focuses on an arctic community called Utqiagvik (Barrow), ... -
Cultural Threshold: Framing the Anthropocene
This thesis investigates humanity’s relationship to the natural world. With the recognition of the Anthropocene, humanity raises awareness to the scale of impact of resource extraction and consumption from the natural ... -
Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture
The chili pepper came to occupy global cuisine in variegated ways through performative negotiations of cultural differences. From the Inca royal garden, Moyas, a locus of power where doves feed on chilies to the swidden ... -
Culture of Energy: Rethinking the Inherent Value of Landscapes of Energy Extraction
(2013-04-17)This thesis proposes to transition the rapidly depleting Kern River Oil Field into a cultural, recreational, and productive resource that embraces the historic value and productive potential of the site. This project uses ... -
Curating the Interstice: Exploiting the Urban Gap Phenomenon in Kobe, Japan
(2013-04-17)This project is inspired by urban phenomena in Japan, particularly those conditions that result from a rapidly changing urban form. One of the most significant effects of this rapid rate of change is the presence of gaps ... -
Curation Experimentation: The Blurring of Art and Life Along Portland's North Park Blocks
(2013-07-25)The relationship between art and the public is continually being reshaped in contemporary culture by its context and modes of display. Over time art has become increasingly more accessible through the use of public ... -
Cybernetic Campus: University in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
This thesis explores concepts for the urban university in response to the growing use of automation and artificial intelligence in the current Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the anticipated loss of nearly half of all ... -
Cycle-graphic Landscapes: Experiencing Honolulu Through Its Harrowed Cycling Infrastructure
In many cities throughout the world, the bicycle has proven its merit as a viable mode of transportation. Even in an automobile dependent nation like the United States, bicycle commuting has become a growing trend within ... -
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 ...