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Occupant-Centric Daylight in Housing: Daylight Availability and Occupant Visual Comfort in Seattle Multi-Family Housing
Housing is one of the biggest challenges in Seattle. The design decisions for floor layout and configuration of living units impact the quantitative and qualitative character of daylighting and therefore, determine daylight availability and occupant visual comfort. The goal to increase daylight availability may conflict with ...
An Analysis of Urban Form and Canyon for Performative Daylighting Design
Urbanization and densification are generally posed as a dichotomy between economic vitality and access to sunlight, daylight, and views. Daylight provides the highest quality of light. Building façade design should allow adequate levels of daylight penetration, and reduce the need for artificial lighting. Previous research ...
The Vertical Archipelago
This thesis began with an interest in responding to the urgent need for housing in cities that are growing at unprecedented rates. An in-depth exploration of two architectural responses to similar housing shortages served as an excellent case study of how people perceived the future of living. The Million Homes Program and ...
RETHINKING NONPROFIT CONSTRUCTION METHODS: integrating equitable building practices on international projects.
In partnership with Seattle-based construction management firm, Construction for Change, this thesis seeks to develop guidelines for the organization’s international construction methods; honoring regional culture and context while promoting local economies. The research was completed in response to the current sum of ...
ALT Mercer: Rethinking the Development and Design of the Mercer Mega Block
There has been a shortage of housing across the United States that has led to the exponential increase of rent. Some of the leading challenges of building more housing is the high cost of construction and labor shortage, and as a result, has led developers to build luxury housing, almost exclusively, because it is the only ...
Ephemeral
Have you ever noticed that in most cities there are empty building lots, vacant land and underutilized sites everywhere? Empty lots are not only a wasted resource, they can be an attractive nuisance for a neighborhood, even if they have a future purpose and are just temporarily vacant. Making productive use of under-utilized ...
Robert George Reichert, Architect
Robert George Reichert, Seattle architect, practiced as a sole proprietor in the city from 1952 until his death in 1996. He learned both to design and to play the organ at a very young age, and developed strong ideas about the meaning of architecture, notions that would guide his practice throughout his career. He studied ...
Syncing with the Sky: Daylight-Driven Circadian Lighting Design
The use of daylight in the built environment is preferred to artificial sources as it provides visual comfort and satisfaction along with significant energy savings. Daylight is also the primary source for stimulus that establish a healthy day/night cycle, or circadian rhythm. With the discovery of photosensors within the eye ...
Just Space: Material and Phenomenal Alternatives to Cruel and Unfortunately-usual Architecture
Phenomena, such as light and sound, are often weaponized in putative systems. Either through overwhelming the body with stimuli or through sensory deprivation. Phenomena also make place and create indelible connections, and will act as an integral component in restorative justice. Materiality is typically used in putative ...
Living in the City through Female Fashion
This thesis analyzes an initial urban visit throughout the iconic French city of Paris, and uses the methodology of graphical collage to further unravel the individually derived “living” experience accumulated within the particular built environment. Using case studies created by photographers, graphic designers, and architects ...