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Inter-Infra: On Data centers and Infrastructure
(2023-05-17)
Data centers stand as material structures of the digital world. Given the permeance and expanding necessity of digitalization, this thesis examines the notions of data centers as infrastructure and the contemplations ...
Home, Homing, Home-Escape: Achieving Sustainable Rural Tourism in Post-COVID Huyuan Town, China
(2024-01-24)
Rural tourism in China has gained unprecedented popularity among the urban middle-class, leading to a significant reduction in the permanent rural population and the gradual erosion of native rural culture. This thesis ...
ERASURE
(2024-01-24)
Despite technological advances in AR and VR, a clear dichotomy between virtual and real still dominates. Current augmented reality (AR) experiences—characterized by floating UIs and low-poly models—augment rather than merge ...
A Shell of a Good Time: A Design Framework for Oyster Sanctuaries and Playful Parks
(2024-01-24)
Oysters play a crucial role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems through their ability to filter water and provide habitat for various species. The Billion Oyster Project, a New York-based initiative, has been working ...
Sweating Building: A Study of Self-Cooling Hydrogels for Application in Adaptive Architecture
(2024-01-24)
Hydrogels that are responsive to changing environments could have applications in passive cooling and indoor air temperature control for buildings. Most of the current studies of these applications are still experimental ...
Body-ody-ody: A Formal Redress of Harlem
(2024-01-24)
Ornamentation (architectural decoration) is a deliberate act of shifting perspective, envisioning possibilities that recognize contingency. Formalism (embodied ornamentation enabled by today’s technology) gives architecture ...
At-Your-Service: Gas Station Futures in Post-Industrial USA
(2024-01-24)
This thesis explores the unrealized potential of service stations in shaping environmental progress, social infrastructure, and food equity in America. Leveraging architecture to tackle challenges like food system design ...
How to Tailor 50-Story Office
(2024-01-24)
The escalating office vacancy rates in urban environments have emerged as a prominent issue, significantly impacting both the real estate market and the urban landscape. It became visible that the pervasive presence of ...
Transitive Gestures: Everyday Structures at Play
(2024-01-24)
Transitive gestures describe the direct linkage between a space as outcome and the action as process through a physical form. In the case of mining, a mine prop not only mechanically supports the space of a mine, but also ...
Back to Basilica: A Triptych of Church Unbuilding
(2024-01-24)
Christian churches have accumulated disproportionate real and symbolic capital in America. A result of an outdated truce between Church and State, Christian monuments, however underused, are a protected discourse—too sacred ...