Architecture: Recent submissions
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In the Absence of Water: An Eco-Distopian Scenario in Mexico City
Mexico City’s water narratives are unique to its place, yet simultaneously speak to the ubiquity of climate challenges in the Anthropocene. This design research explores the reciprocal relationships between water and the ... -
Textiles and Architecture | Woven into Dimensions of Temporality, Craft, Drapery, and Technology
Textiles play an important, but often unacknowledged role in architecture. They have been closely associated with flexibility, texture, weaving, impermanence, moldability, mobility, lightness, and wrapping. However, textiles ... -
The Impact of Biophilia in Elementary Schools: A Study of Student Health and Well-being
This design research thesis explores questions in design methodology, provides insights on how to conduct design research, and ultimately serves to ignite a productive conversation between designers, teachers, administrators, ... -
Manifesting Density
The following thesis is considered an urban design gesture with architectural elements thatredefines a city in need of revitalization. Tacoma’s history is one often showcased by the defiant work of the people who may have ... -
Meydan as Sahne Productions of Space and Expressions of Turkish Politics at Taksim Square (1950-1980)
This thesis analyses the spatial history of Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, focusing primarily on the years 1950 to 1980. As Taksim Square is a politically active urban space, the central argument of the thesis concerns ... -
Memory, Place, and Firefighting — Using a Typology of Floor Plans as a Wayfinding Tool in Smoke
Wayfinding within any environment is contingent on the dynamic interaction between perceptual and cognitive processes. The kind of wayfinding firefighters perform is purpose-driven and time-sensitive. What makes firefighters ... -
Convergence: The Gas Station and the Future of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
This thesis presents a future vision for the next iteration of the gas station. The gas station as it functions today is an important component of the U.S. infrastructure network. However, the current network is not resilient ... -
Metamodeling of Energy and Operational Carbon in Detached Accessory Dwelling Units
The rapidly escalating cost of housing has created a crisis in the United States that stems from a lack of housing supply, which is exacerbated by single-family zoning. While revising this policy is a needed course of ... -
Living Laboratory: A circular framework for North Seattle Community College
This thesis proposes North Seattle College as a living laboratory to explore the future of sustainable development at the district scale. Incorporating principles of circular cities, regenerative design, and the Water-Food-Energy ... -
Architecture on the Couch
This thesis explores architecture as an assemblage of realities. The rise in virtual and cybernetic technologies rapidly increases the convergence of multiple realities, revealing different ways of perceiving the environment. ... -
Enhancing Energy Efficiency with Insulation Materials in Taipei, Taiwan Residential Redevelopment
This thesis aims to identify insulation materials and building construction factors that can lower carbon dioxide (CO2) usage for residential redevelopment in Taipei and New Taipei, Taiwan. The growth in energy usage over ... -
Nourishing the City: Integrating Local Food Systems in Seattle's Central District
The agriculture industry is one of the main contributors to environmental degradation due to massive amounts of water and energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste. Meanwhile, food insecurity disproportionately ... -
Rhythms and Politics of Dwelling in the City: A Model for Collective Housing and Development in Birmingham, Alabama
This thesis explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of dwelling in the city using rhythm as a tool to critique politically and socially imposed patterns and the built environments they produce, as well as to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Polyphonic City: Crafting a new Lithuanian Identity in Wilno, Vilna, Vilnius
Lithuania is a fledgling nation built on 19th and 20th century conceptions of ethno-linguistic nationalism.Yet its capital, Vilnius, is a hybrid state of Polish, Jewish, Soviet, and Lithuanian heritage that challenges the ... -
I Am He Who Aches the Earth: An Architectural Retelling of Genesis
The story of Genesis serves as the creation myth for the major religions of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. It has been interpreted and reinterpreted as a universal origin tale of religion and humanity. This thesis is ... -
Sinking Cities; Adaptive Architecture for Rising Sea Levels
Though the Duwamish River has been through many significant changes since its glacialcreation thousands of years ago, it has remained a source of food, travel and trade for those residing in the Duwamish Valley and greater ... -
Pacific Food Center: Expanding Tacoma’s Food Bank System
This thesis proposes the design of a downtown food center complex as the next logical development of the food bank system of the City of Tacoma, Washington. The first part of the thesis examines the complex character of ... -
Office Typology for the Post-Covid Workforce
A thesis presented on the development of the office in America beginning with the early Twentieth Century to present. Emphasis is placed on the effect the global pandemic has had and will have on work environments and ...