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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 ... -
Georgetown STREAM Plant: STEAM Education in Context
The Georgetown Steam Plant, a 1906 Seattle City Light plant located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, is undergoing a transformation. This design thesis proposes a reprogramming of the now-defunct plant as a ... -
Glacial Indifference: The Failure and Future of Seattle
The future of Seattle is projected to be a bleak reality due to unhindered climate change and massive population growth. The buildable landmasses of Seattle will slowly become submerged leaving many residents to flee and ... -
GlareShade: a visual comfort based approach to adaptive shading systems
The thesis investigates design solutions for an adaptive shading system in high-rise office buildings. High density of occupants, variation in comfort levels corresponding with different activity types and individuals' ... -
Grange Halls in Washington State: A Critical Investigation of a Vernacular Building Type
(2013-11-14)The Grange, formally known as the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, is the oldest farm organization in the United States. At the local level, subordinate granges are typically organized among interested community members, ... -
A Graphic History: The Integration of Architecture and Graphic Design to Represent the Evolution of Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine Community
(2014-02-24)Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine is possibly the city's most historic neighborhood. From its German origins to its strong Appalachian and African-American culture, it has had a rich and diverse history. But with recent ... -
Growing Responsible Cities: An Ecological Design Approach to Bellingham’s Waterfront District
The city of Bellingham, WA is in the midst of redeveloping its waterfront from a former industrial pulp mill into a sustainable, mixed-use hub, reconnecting the city to its waterfront. This thesis focuses on the 37 acre ... -
Guerrilla Productivity: Gamification and Design-Related Touch Interfaces
In recent years, applications for touch screen devices have experienced tremendous growth and distribution. While some of the most widely-adopted applications offer game-based drawing experiences, tools designed specifically ... -
Harvesting Encounter: An Interpretive Research Center at Pack Forest
(2014-02-24)As environmentalists focus on the negative impacts of forestry and the built environment focuses on the sustainable qualities of a renewable resource, wood has become divorced from timber. Harvesting Encounter proposes an ... -
Healing Spaces: An Outpatient Primary Care Neighborhood Clinic
With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, millions of newly insured people have been catapulted into the health care system. This means that patients who formerly used emergency rooms for routine illnesses will now have ... -
Helmholtz Resonators in Open Office Acoustics
Acoustics is the only category in which a LEED-rated office building performs worse than a conventional office building. Exposed hard surfaces and lack of partitions cause easy propagation of conversational sounds between ... -
Hi-Lo : High - Tech Design to enhance Low - Tech execution
Variation, in the form of patterns in space and time, is fundamental to architecture, but produces complexity in design and construction processes. This complexity is usually managed by constraining variability within a ... -
Hidden Density: A Proposal for Single-Family Infill Housing
In the recent past, there has been a shift in user preferences toward walkable, urban neighborhoods. The highest housing prices are now found in dense metropolitan areas rather than wealthy suburbs and this trend is expected ...