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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. ...
100-Day Exhibition: Labor, Robots, and Corridors
(2021-05-21)
This thesis proposes a weird, giant, and cycling memorial spectacle with the introduction of a new sort of labor in the format of a 100-day exhibition. The robotic machines replaced the enslaved persons to run a closed ...
John Andrews's Laconic Legacy
(2021-05-20)
John Hamilton Andrews (1933–) is the quintessential knockabout Australian; terse and straight-forward, his affable personality won him the respect of his American peers and mentors, but his laconic sensibility would ...
Spherical deployable shield for robot arm
(2021-05-18)
This thesis focuses on the construction of deployable shields for robot arms in extraterrestrial situations that protect them from possible threats by minimizing the area of the robot's end-effector that is exposed to ...
Building Characters
(2021-05-27)
Building Characters arrive at City Hall Park from all boroughs of New York City, some on foot, some by bus, some by car, and others by train. Like leviathans in the mist, they materialize at the Park's gates. They muscle ...
The Unspoken Narratives of the Empty Quarter
(2021-05-18)
The desert, commonly understood as a barren and infertile landscape, is not empty. This thesis reads the desert landscape as an archive full of social, economic, and political narratives using the Empty Quarter as a case ...
Liquid Pedagogy
(2021-05-20)
Liquid Pedagogy is a critical reflection on pedagogy and the discipline of architecture which historically is shaped by but also has shaped the learning spaces in architecture schools. The thesis is materialized in a design ...
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 ...
Design in the Convívio: Making Space for Landscape in Self-Built Communities
(2021-05-19)
This thesis examines the roles in which a landscape architect can operate respectfully within dense, self-constructed communities. Piloting a design process within the context of the “convívio” -- a socially rich but ...
Biologically inspired compliant building façade systems with tunable heat transfer capabilities
(2023-02-06)
Energy consumption for building thermoregulation is a major contributor to the environmental impact of
our built environment. Building envelope systems that actively tune their heat transfer rate in response to
environmental ...