The synergy of Additive Manufacturing and Computational Geometry has the potential to radically expand the “design space” of solutions available to designers. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is capable of fabricating objects that are highly complex both in geometry and material properties. However, the introduction of any new ...

The house is one of the purest forms of cultural reflection and it is the place where the design can have the most influence on people’s life and daily practice. Thus the proposal for this thesis will look at exploring and introducing a different form of housing to the Saudi urban fabric. This form will be different than the ...

While thin shell structures could offer efficient solutions to modern design problems, designer familiarity with the strengths and limitations of the form have declined in recent years. Thin shell structures are seeing a resurgence of interest due to modern fabrication techniques, but are hampered by the difficulty of balancing ...

This thesis embraces the task of biodiversity conservation within the realm of architecture. In the midst of an anthropogenic mass extinction on Earth—the most menacing of the current environmental crises—it advocates for the prioritization of biodiversity conservation in any design project. A bold articulation of the attitude ...

Digital media and tools are now integral to architectural education and the design process. Nevertheless, much of the pedagogy related to digital media is grounded in, and relies upon, traditional design educational approaches. The relationship of the practice of architecture to digital technology is in constant flux. Recently, ...

While today’s society is becoming increasingly saturated by the technology of digital communication, there are few built traces of these complicated networks. Undetectable to the human eye and yet palpable in the impact of electronic devices on human existence, these overlapping networks of flowing information form a “third” ...

The recent wave of developments and research in the field of deep learning and artificial intelligence is causing the border between the intuitive and deterministic domains to be redrawn. Amidst all the excitement surrounding this field, there are several prototypes being made, most of which are narrow, single purpose ...

Transportation termini link people to social wellbeing, economic prosperity and the natural and built environments of the world. Altering and managing trends in transportation presents a major challenge in contemporary cities and will require the collaboration of stakeholders at local, regional, national and international ...

This thesis systematically examines linkages among deconcentration of poverty in US public housing programs, and the Everyday Urbanism and New Urbanism movements. A hybrid-urbanism concept appears to emerge from the research findings. This thesis demonstrates, in particular, that these concepts and theories have guided many ...

Architecture is inhabited by bodies. Yet, it is not always a concern for architects to study body-space dynamics as an integral part of the design process. This experimental and theoretically driven project seeks to explore the ways in which the body informs a work of design. More specifically, it suggests that architectural ...