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Preserving the Himalayan culture : a Himalayan heritage memorial in Nepal
(1999)The idea of going into the Himalayas for a thesis project stemmed from my fondness of the history of mountaineering and interests in architecture as a testimony of cultural adaptation and transformation. The desire of ... -
The relationship between old and new in a cultural landscape : Portuguese cultural center for the performing arts
(2000)This thesis investigates the relationship between a modern society and a traditional society within a cultural landscape. The investigation focuses on culture, economics, and site as aspect of cultural identity of the ... -
Image Based Rendering: Using High Dynamic Range Photographs to Light Architectural Scenes
(2008)Three‐dimensional digital models are becoming more and more common in the architectural profession as communication tools. Whether used in place of physical models or to supplement them, the digital model provides ... -
Considerations of Lighting Influencing Design: A Community Center For Fremont
(2008)In order to conceptualize an architectural design, one must consider lighting and perception. Humans are visual creatures; the main perception of an architectural space is heavily influenced by light. Light defines ... -
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 ... -
Lightbox: Dynamic Daylighting in a Portable Gallery System
(2012-05-31)This thesis explores the qualities of daylight in a portable gallery environment by suggesting alternatives for how light interacts with art. Daylight is manipulated through a dynamic shading system to generate multiple ... -
Adrift on the Pequod, Space out of Time: A Trappist Monastery off the Coast of Santa Barbara
(2012-05-31)This thesis proposes a Trappist monastery on an abandoned oil rig in the year 2087. Its starting point is a set of dialectics drawn from the character of its landscape and program: sea/sky, earthly/spiritual, space/time, ... -
Overcoming Resistance to Density and Desegregation in Seattle: Developing a Model for High-Density Integrative Transit Oriented Development
(2012-05-31)Since the civil rights activism of the late 1960s, Seattle has moved toward greater equity along racial lines, but a variety of factors are still holding the city back from full integration. Socioeconomic constructs based ... -
Cracking One Open: Building Inside Out, A Cooperative Distillery In Georgetown.
(2012-05-31)This thesis involves the design of a cooperative distillery on the former site of the Rainier Cold Storage building, which was originally part of the large complex of buildings comprising the Seattle Brewing & Malting ... -
Lost Lake Park: Perceiving Site History through a Recreation Landscape on Lake Union
(2012-05-31)This thesis project is an adaptation of a site on one of Seattle's former working waterfronts, Lake Union. Located on the lake's eastern shore, the site was recently vacated, providing an opportunity to create a path and ... -
Native Spaces | Native Actions | Native Traditions: an Outdoor Eduction Campus for the Seattle Public Schools
(2012-05-31)Progressive education is bringing students back in contact with nature, and the result has been higher test scores, greater respect for the environment, and fewer behavioral problems. Precedence for outdoor education ... -
Waterfront Connections: A Dynamic Learning Environment for Downtown Seattle
(2012-05-31)Schools are being re-imagined as dynamic experiences where the larger built environment in which they are located are just as influential on what is learned as are the structured lessons. Students are active learners who ... -
Alternate Occupancy | Increasing Urban Density Through Reuse of Existing Parking Garages
(2012-05-31)The stand-alone parking garage exemplifies the twentieth century paradigm of the American city's reliance on car-centric infrastructure and encouragement of suburban sprawl. Over the past 100 years, streets have transitioned ... -
Pixelated Urbanism: A Mixed-Use Strategy for Urban Density and Neighborhood Development
(2012-05-31)Pixelated Urbanism is a strategy for dense urban living through new forms of mixed-use buildings that connect users and programs on a small scale (pixels) to create compact, vertical environments. Pixelated Urbanism moves ... -
Intermodal Theater of Movement : A High Speed Rail Hub for Seattle
(2012-05-31)The freedom to move from place to place has become an essential part of modern life. Demand for public transportation will increase as costs associated with driving rise, traffic becomes congested, and people become ... -
New eyes on waste - transforming waste materials in new building design
(2012-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to explore how architects can strengthen the interaction between the design process and available existing resources, in order to shortcut material flows and educate the public the underutilized ... -
Intermodal Transit Hub: Improving the Transfer Environment at the Li Shui Bridge Transportation Node in Beijing
(2012-05-31)Recently Beijing has become the most important transportation hub in China and in the East Asian region. As larger and larger population moved into the capital city, together with an enormous car growth, traffic congestion ... -
Isolated Ecologies : A strategy for the reintegration of McNeil Island
(2012-05-31)This thesis argues for the value of isolation as a spatial strategy. In examining the situation of the contemporary prison, we find an institution swarming with contradictions. Relegated to the periphery of our urban ... -
The Tradition of Making: An Urban Craft and Cultural Center in Seattle's Pioneer Square
(2012-05-31)In the wake of the industrial revolution, and in the information age that has followed, the fundamental notion of man as maker has been stifled in favor of convenience and profitability. Just as industrialization gave birth ... -
Architecture Occupation A sky community culture center in traditional district, Guangzhou
(2012-05-31)Guangzhou is a city with profound historical and cultural heritage in southern China. Along with the rapid population increase and development, the new cultural centers of the city have been built as the city landmark ...