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Outside-In: A Hybrid Domestic Typology
(2024-01-24)
With the increasing phenomenon of global migration and cultural diffusion today, fundamental questions of integration and assimilation remain an ongoing theme in the United States. Immigration has emerged as a very decisive, ...
Aggregation of Allegories
(2024-01-24)
In our lives, certain geometric spaces hold profound meaning. For instance, a room with a sloped floor instantly evokes cinematic or theatrical connotations. We instinctively adjust our orientation, distinguishing between ...
Interlacing Latent Features: Synthesis of Past and Present in Architectural Design through Artificial Intelligence in a Case Study of Japanese Houses
(2024-04-08)
Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have shown great promise for expanding the conventional limits of human perception, thereby augmenting the architect's imagination and design agency. This thesis extrapolates global ...
Tactics of Disappearance, Hiding in Plain Sight
(2024-04-08)
“Pitching” is a complete, localized act that turns an idea into reality. When applied to space , it describes the quick and temporary transformation of a ground for sleeping. “A pitch” is also the meaningful distance between ...
Living Chinatown - Familiar Unfamiliar
(2023-05-24)
Over the last two centuries, San Francisco Chinatown’s resistance towards architectural change has resulted in the identity of the neighborhood becoming increasingly misaligned with the present – a place losing its sense ...
Home Away from Home: Senior Immigrants’ Culinary Nostalgia
(2024-02-05)
A group of senior immigrants in the United States, who left their home countries decades ago and have since established themselves here, often find themselves immersed in nostalgic moments, reliving their childhood memories. ...
“¡Azúcar!”: Fragments from a Land of Sugar
(2024-02-07)
The sugarcane-processing factory, or central, has long played a pivotal role in Cuba’s history. For the Cuban people, the production of sugar is more than just an export commodity. Sugar, and by proxy the central—its spatial ...
Photobiological Material Systems: Spectrally-Selective Surfaces for the Regulation of Indoor Alertness
(2024-02-20)
Color, light, and their interaction within the built environment have always been pertinent spatial and aesthetic factors that architects consider in their work; however, their study has been limited to a primarily perceptual ...
Learning from the Wreck: Reframing Sentimentality
(2024-02-28)
Cape Cod is characterized by a cyclical churning of land. Over timescales of decades, the Atlantic shifts, erodes, and redeposits the sandy sediment from which the Cape is almost entirely composed, rapidly reshaping its ...
The Third Typology: Architecture on the Bank of the Bengawan Solo
(2024-02-28)
Indonesia has a wide range of vernacular architectural styles known as rumah adat. However, the passage of time and colonialism has caused a decline in the traditional rumah adat. The architectural landscape of the post-1940s ...