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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 gentrification, rapid development, and prior neglect, Over-the-Rhine is quickly losing the rich history of its ...
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 amplified during the past decade. Suburban spatial form does not reflect the diverse needs of changing ...
Thickening the Threshold: designing for communities of convergence in contemporary Brazil
(2014-02-24)
Pilgrimage is an act of convergence wherein individual desires coalesce into spontaneous communities. The formation of these communities is facilitated by the liminal quality of pilgrimage: its threshold state between the everyday and the extraordinary. It is this "between-ness" of the threshold, its state between states, ...
Reclaiming the Void: The Humanization of the Space under the Freeway in Seattle's International District
(2014-02-24)
Elevated Freeways are perhaps the most monstrous type of infrastructure running through our urban fabric. Although they consume a great deal of resources in energy and land, most of them operate for a single purpose to carry massive amounts of vehicular traffic. The often hidden outcome of this technocracy is the space ...
Building Language: A Traditional Andean Language Center In Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, Peru
(2014-02-24)
This thesis conceives of language as the foundation of culture, and explores the creation of a Native Andean Language Center in Cuzco, Peru, as a means of combatting homogenization, pastiche, and social denigration in Peru's Sacred Valley. The establishment of a dedicated space of linguistic exploration has the opportunity ...
Within the Fold: A Cultural Center for Fitchburg, MA
(2014-02-24)
This thesis takes a position that rather than wiping the proverbial slate clean, or waxing preservation, the role of architecture is to serve not only as a catalyst, but act as a palimpsest for re-contextualizing industrial space and re-connecting it to the public element. This project tests a method of study for one site in ...
A Conversation Between Dance and Architecture
(2014-02-24)
This thesis uses dance as a tool to investigate the alleys of Pioneer Square in Seattle, Washington. This path brings about an architecture that explores a shift of perspective in the attitude of homelessness, shelter and art.
Urban Acupuncture & Dwelling Formability: Regeneration of Coastal Informal Settlements in Manila
(2014-02-24)
Slum communities are considered an eyesore in the urban landscape, yet 44% of Metro Manila's population is living in them. These settlements grafted on the fringes of the city core are fragmented, plugged away from the services of the city center. Slums are made up of the urban poor and have substandard housing in squalor ...
Humanizing Industry: A Training Ground for Advanced Manufacturing in Kent, WA
(2014-02-24)
Where industry was once the backbone of community, it has since been relegated to sprawling industrial zones, on the edges of community, divorced from the people who benefit from its labors. However, a certain renaissance in "making" is evident in the Maker's Revolution. The typical manufacturing facilities used today are not ...
Body and Spirit: Crafting an Architectural Language of Redemption
(2014-02-24)
Dwelling upon the earth is a matter of body and spirit. Failing to comprehend the implications of the body upon the spirit or the spirit upon the body will either desanctify the common life or ignore the weight of glory embedded in every individual. To dwell requires both, and architecture as an act of crafting spaces in which ...