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  • 100% petroleum house 
    Costanza, David (David Nicholas) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    I am designing a Case Study House to be sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell which utilizes the by-product of oil extraction, petroleum gas, to produce a zero waste, 100% petroleum based house. The motivation of the Case Study ...
  • The 19th-century American country house : a prototype for multi-family housing. 
    Parker, Rodney Douglas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
  • 24x7 Make Mart : the future nexus of innovation 
    Lee, Chia Chieh (Chia Chieh Jessica) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    There is a total of more than 9700 convenient stores in Taiwan. In Taipei, the capital of the country, there is 1 convenient store in every 400 meters, which is equivalent to one convenient store in every 5 minutes. This ...
  • 3D architecture form synthesizer 
    Wang, Yufei, 1972- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
    The synthesis of forms is an interesting problem which has faced designers for years. So far, the only solution to this problem is to use the imagination of designers. Even though computers have been used in representing ...
  • A 3-D display head-set for personalized computing 
    Callahan, Mark A (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
    This thesis covers the design and implementation of a binocular display head-set akin to Dr . Ivan E. Sutherland's head-mounted display, but using several new technologies and new techniques in computer graphics: small ...
  • 3 - DJ : sampling as design 
    Patel, Sayjel Vijay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
    3D Sampling is introduced as a new spatial craft that can be applied to architectural design, akin to how sampling is applied in the field of electronic music. Through the development of 3-DJ, a prototype design software, ...
  • The 4-dimensional masonry construction 
    Davis, Lara K. (Lara Katherine) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    This design-research thesis - The 4-Dimensional Masonry Construction - presents innovation in the design and construction of thin-shell tile vaulted structures. The core research contributions of this thesis are: #1 Testing ...
  • A 500-bed suburban general hospital 
    Stubbs, Sidney W (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961)
  • 6,000 years of copper smelting : Center for the Study of Copper Smelting in Ancient Societies 
    Steinberg, Marc J. (Marc Jonathan), 1969- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
    In 1959 professor of archeology Beno Rothenberg began investigating the production of copper in the Sinai desert and Aravah region of southern Israel. He discovered over 650 previously unknown ancient copper mining and ...
  • 800mm luxury : pencil tower phenomenon in Hong Kong, China 
    Yam, Hiu Lan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    150m2 - 40m2 - 60m3. Pencil Towers are slender pencil-like apartment buildings. They are commonly found in high-dense Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Focusing on Hong Kong as the context of research, ...
  • About face, computergraphic synthesis and manipulation of facial imagery 
    Weil, Peggy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
    A technique of pictorially synthesizing facial imagery using optical videodiscs under computer control is described. Search, selection and averaging processes are performed on a catalogue of whole faces and facial features ...
  • About meaning/quality of place in the built environment : a return to reason 
    Reed, Ronald Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)
    It is the opinion of this writer that the success or failure of a "place" or space as defined by architectural or urban design terms is linked not only to its physical boundaries and the reality of its elements and their ...
  • About snails, Franciscans, homelessness, and the city : a contribution to the culture of "college thinking" 
    Stocker, Florian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
    Four fragments constitute the focus of analysis of this study; at the same time they are used as objects in the experimental set up of the thesis. This set up investigates the possibilities of a collage as a model for a ...
  • Above reproach 
    Wit, Andrew John (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    As global populations continue toward higher levels of urban densification, sprawl has caused the United States to reach an un-sustainability low level of population density. The past six decades of sub-urbanization have ...
  • Absolutely positively satisfied : what asset management can learn form the quality revolution 
    Segal, Andrew Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
  • Absurd machine : project on the National Mall 
    Ansari, Amna (Amna K.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    America's symbols of governance, such as the ubiquitous state capitols and state capitol malls, are classically inspired European architecture and planning of reason and nature, adopted in America by Jefferson in 18th ...
  • Accessibility values in metropolitan locational patterns 
    Barr, MacDonald (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957)
  • Accommodating existing settlements in large scale development : recommendations for Sha Tin New Town Hong Kong 
    Richardson, James Rutherford (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-03-01)
  • Acid ecologies : or the secret lives of Spanish tomatoes/ 
    Roth, Curtis (Curtis A.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis seeks to unpack the nature of ecology within architecture, not as a neutral science, but a legitimizing construct, building a future and transforming the ethics of the present towards very deliberate ideological ...
  • Active shapes : introducing guidelines for designing kinetic architectural structures 
    El-Zanfaly, Dina E (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    This thesis proposes guidelines for designing kinetic architectural structures, in which rules based on shape grammars, are used for motion capturing and design. There is an increasing demand for adaptive architecture that ...
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