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Halftone Dissonance
(2022-06-08)
This thesis aims to induce a public conversation in the public sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic public health policies and social isolation altered the way people interact, while consumer culture has increased and shifted. ...
Harnessing Dynamics: Exploring Scale & Coastal Infrastructure in the Arctic
(2022-04-01)
Infrastructure is crucial for survival in extreme environments. However, it is often built with little consideration for its environmental context or the broader needs of the community it serves. In the Arctic, small coastal ...
Planning for Urban Satisfaction
(2022-06-08)
This paper aims to examine the strengths and weaknesses of social media platforms and proposes a vision for a better platform to invite bottom-up citizen participation in data-driven urban planning for urban satisfaction. ...
Rest Stop Vending Machine, California (2033)
(2022-05-18)
In the federal highway rest stop there are parking spots, picnic benches, a shade structure or two, and an irrigated lawn. There is also a vending machine. Vending machines are, by law, the only commercial activity allowed ...
MORE THAN BAMBOO SCAFFOLDING
(2022-05-24)
Over densification, scarce building plots and overuse of curtain walls are critical social problems in Hong Kong. My provocation of bamboo scaffolding in such a context aims to provide an additional layer of space with ...
Hanok, Stacked: An Alternative Urban Housing for the New Family
(2022-04-01)
Around the world the concept and the demographics of ‘family’ have been changing. Especially in the developed countries, the 4-person heterosexual nuclear family ideal has begun to break down with increasing interests in ...
The Sovereign Table: Embedding Knowledge Infrastructure within a Tribal Homeland
(2022-05-23)
As climate change exacerbates the consequences of Western land and resource mismanagement, landscape architects are increasingly soliciting traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). This thesis calls landscape architects to ...
Identities of Past and Present: Conservation and its Consequences
(2022-05-25)
This thesis explores the concept of “Radical Indigenism,” outlined by Julia Watson, as a critique of traditional notions of cultural heritage and preservation in landscape architecture. To investigate this concept, the ...
Latent Morphologies: Encoding Architectural Features and Decoding Their Structure through Artificial Intelligence
(2022-06-08)
With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, new methodologies have been introduced to the architectural discipline, expanding the current possibilities of design processes. Specifically, generative models created a paradigm ...
A Pool in the City
(2022-04-01)
American municipal pools exist in cities, often surrounded by car-centric spaces such as freeways, parking lots, big-box stores, and industrial sites. They have traditionally employed a typology of “maximum building, minimal ...