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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, and stresses imposed on buildings. This thesis defines future-proofing, develops the Principles of ...
Revenge of the Lake: An Exploration of of Water, Sacrifice, and Regeneration in Mexico City
Mexico City is sinking quickly, in parts up to nine inches a year and in total thirty feet since its foundation in 1325. Mexico City was built on the lake bed of Lake Texcoco. The original inhabitants of the city, the Méxica, worked with the water and worshiped the water god, Tlaloc, often through sacrifice. The city then ...
Energy Commons: A Hypothetical Replacement for Urban Gas Stations in Seattle
While surviving as a monument to the power of car culture in the 20th century, today the gas station has become increasing obsolete in the face of growing cities and increasing environmental awareness. Alternative energy sources and different modes of transit such as walking, biking, car sharing, and public transit have grown ...
On Shaky Ground: An Earthquake Discovery Center for the Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest is home to several fault lines which pose a significant threat to a largely unprepared area. The region must address the challenge of designing a resilient architecture in an earthquake prone environment. Buildings should respond to their context to better connect people to their environments and react ...
Bicycle Touring Infrastructure: An Architectural Proposal for Sustainable Bicycle Tourism
America has had a century long obsession with automobiles. The United States has become synonymous with car travel and road trips. But climate change challenges us to rethink these relationships and consider alternative modes of travel and transit. Known as the place for innovation and reinvention, the time is ripe for the ...
Landscapes of Light: An Investigation of Light-driven Forms in Northern Climates and Cultures
This is a study of light: an investigation into the ability of light to not only illuminate, but also to awaken a deeper sense of the existence of the natural world. Universally, light is an essential aspect of life: it provides illumination, a core quality of human existence. Without illumination, we cannot visualize spatial ...
Systems of Sustenance: A Re-imagining of Seattle's Food and Food Waste Infrastructure
Cities around the world are facing parallel challenges in addressing the resource needs of growing populations while simultaneously trying to decrease their environmental impact. This is especially true with food. In Seattle, a city expected to see 20% growth in the next 20 years, food accounts for roughly half of the average ...
Dynamic Balance_school as living system
Currently, the scale and speed of human progress is disproportionate to live sustainably within the environment. This type of progress has forced us to choose between the continuation of human excess or the balance and rekindling between the human and natural world. Through an exploration into the ways that our environment ...
Regenerative Early Educational Facility for Underrepresented Children in Pratiksha Nagar, Mumbai
Children of all age, class, sex and region deserve an equal opportunity to good quality education. Research shows that investing in early education reaps long term socio-economic benefits for a country. This makes early education all the more important for sub-developed countries. Studies show that the primary reason for ...
Eco-grids for Resilient Communities
The amount of collected knowledge and information of a community’s resources is disproportionate to its implementation within existing and future development for resiliency in the face of disruption. Natural resource data collection and the technologies used for collection should be engineered to provide a community within ...