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2019: A Space Odyssey. An Architectural Science Fiction Parody Poem (and also a thesis).
Yes, but abstract investigations are no less productive. Should we live on Mars? Absurd questions inspire absurd responses. Architects don’t make buildings, we envision the future and find ways to bring others along. Satire ... -
The 21st Century Learning Environment
(2013-04-17)The design of future schools and learning environments will be influenced by advances in information and communication technology and the pedagogical responses to the freedoms that it provides. Understanding the physical ... -
A Cabin in the City: searching for refuge in the dense urban fabric
The pioneer cabin was originally a modest dwelling protecting its inhabitants from the wilderness in which they lived. Over the years it has evolved to become a symbol of simplicity and solitude in American culture. As the ... -
A City Divided: Rethinking the Role of the Transit Station in Metro Atlanta
Atlanta’s public transit system, known by the acronym MARTA, has been underused by Atlantans since its inception and has gained a city-wide reputation for being unreliable and unsafe. This stigma, rooted in social divisions ... -
A City Full of Holes: Exploration and Experimentation in the Terrain Vague
A City Full of Holes explores the design potential of the unintentional spaces within the urban landscape left over by city planning, architecture and civil engineering. Through a tactical engagement with the built environment ... -
A Community In Motion: A Multimodal Transit and Waterfront Activity Center at the University of Washington
This thesis is an examination of the current systems of mass transit in the city of Seattle and the relationship these systems form with surrounding communities. As urban centers continue to grow, they are increasingly ... -
A Comparative Analysis of LCA Tools: Studying the Façade of a Campus Lab Building
By the advancement of sustainable design methods, life cycle assessment (LCA) is becoming a significant part of sustainable practices. To have reliable assessment results the strengths and weaknesses of the assessment tools ... -
A Feasibility Study: Exploring Design Using BIM-based Virtual Reality
The use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been a growing trend in the architecture industry because it dramatically improves workflow, collaboration, data visualization and production costs. However, BIM has some ... -
A Humanizing Nature: Multifamily Housing Through the Lens of Human Experience
This thesis explores issues that affect the human experience of nature within cities in a way that permeates daily life and restores the fundamental relationships that have shaped the humanity for thousands of years. In ... -
A Pause in the Mountain and City: Re-Imagining Tea Drinking in Guangzhou, China
The thesis seeks to develop an architectural form that helps create an awareness of the historic relationship between the Baiyun mountains and Guangzhou city. Their physical connection has existed since the city’s foundation. ... -
A Sham Delight Has No Exchange Value: Henri Lefebvre and the evolution of Bernard Tschumi's early architectural theory
University of Washington Abstract A SHAM DELIGHT HAS NO EXCHANGE VALUE Henri Lefebvre and the evolution of Bernard Tschumi’s early architectural theory Britt Bandel Jeske Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate ... -
A Shared Human Currency: Craft and Conviviality
This thesis explores how we can more meaningfully engage with the world by making useful things with our hands out of natural materials. As we do this more and more, it makes plain the adjacency of our abuse of the natural ... -
Above | Below | Between
Architecture transforms time and space at the intersection of the geologic and the human. Human existence in the natural environment constitutes such a small swath of both space and time that our very presence amounts to ... -
Above/Between: Urban Housing in a City of Voids
The contemporary megacity is shaped by transportation infrastructure and characterized by continuous outward expansion, a pattern of development that has left behind spatial voids within more central urban areas. New ... -
Acoustic Spatial Design Methodology and its Application in Health Environments
Hospital design too often overlooks the need for acoustic tempering; as a result, patients experience longer recovery times and hospital staff experience high rates of hypertension, leading to excessive turnover and greater ... -
Acoustically Sensitive Large Assembly Spaces at School: An Elementary School Retrofit and Expansion
This thesis argues for prioritizing the acoustic dimension of design and embracing an attitude of “acoustic delight” rather than “do no harm.” The thesis investigates three approaches to shaping the acoustic experience of ... -
Activating modernist public space - Deconstructing the urban plaza
(2014-02-24)The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious ... -
Activating the Vertical City: An Office Building in Chengdu, China
In recent years, China has built more skyscrapers than any other country has in the world. The skyscrapers create an overpowering “vertical city” that could be anywhere. These tall structures stack all their major functions ... -
Adapting to the Heat: Integrating Healthcare, Communities + the Built Environment in Gao, Mali
(2012-05-31)After three consecutive years of insufficient rainfall and a decade of higher temperatures, West Africa is facing high urbanization rates due to lack of food and water, the result from the extreme climate. The Tamasheq, a ... -
adaptive mixology: a direction for transforming Chicago's shuttered schools
This thesis project explores the potential of a mixed-use education program that utilizes the old school building. The closed school program will be reimplemented back into the building but reflecting upon 21st century ...