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In search of hidden landscapes and new surfaces : fields and filters of architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Serigraphy is an art print process which consists of a stencil technique. It is assembled through a series of layers containing fields of colors, which are superimposed in a single surface to create an image. Serigraphy ...
Energy and first costs analysis of displacement and mixing ventilation systems for U.S. buildings and climates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
In the past two decades, displacement ventilation has been increasingly used in Scandinavia and Western Europe to improve indoor air quality and to save energy. By using a detailed computer simulation method, this study ...
Data synthesis : a comprehensive visual approach to material selection in architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
The condition of information overload has become a common problem facing contemporary designers. This has resulted in a critical need for the development of "intelligent decision support" systems. One such system would ...
Reading contamination : an environmental education center at the Wells G&H Superfund Site
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This thesis proposes and architectural and programmatic methodology which makes legible the processes and consequences of site contamination. This methodology is chiefly demonstrated through a plan for the site which emerges ...
Travelling memorial
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Media laboratory extension
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Buildings, serve in the real world, inevitably acquire or become involved in new proposals of meanings all the time. Their identities and expressions are constantly under scrutiny in the tide of changes. This thesis, through ...
Moving design for lives sans terre
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
How may design address the contemporary conditions of movement, relocation, and change? Today, 25 million Americans currently consider themselves to be free agents. That is, one out of six Americans have abandoned traditional ...