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Some applications of three-dimensional input
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
Three-dimensional, six degree of freedom input is explored in an interactive computer graphics environment. A particular device, the ROPAMS of Polhemus Navigational Sciences, Inc. is an accurate, unencumbering device based ...
Space coast : notes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
Urban temporal storage : re-thinking the public domain using interstitial space in NYC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis aims to rethink the notion of public space and civic duty in the city. By using interstitial, underused spaces, without disputing present urban and legal status, the thesis wants to accomodate services for the ...
Assembling smallness : the American Small Industries Exhibition, Ceylon 1961
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The American Small Industries Exhibition was the first instance during the Cold War wherein the USA assembled a solo exhibit outside the framework of an established trade fair. It toured three nonaligned nations between ...
An educator in the landscape : a new identity for American wilderness architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis dispenses with the traditional, now nostalgic, "rustic" style typically associated with the American wilderness, in favor of proposing a new identity - that of Educator in the Landscape. By blending bio-technology ...
Mitigating floods : reconstructing Lives : rehabilitating Thatta
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Pakistan was struck by floods in July 2010, the effects of which left 20.36 million people affected and 1.9 million homes damaged or destroyed'. In the province of Sindh in Pakistan, most of the affected population of the ...
New methods for measuring spectral bi-directional transmission and reflection using digital cameras
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Advanced fenestration systems are increasingly being used to distribute solar radiation purposefully in buildings. Distribution of visible light and near infrared radiation can be optimized to enhance daylighting and reduce ...
A generative grammar for 2D manufacturing of 3D objects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Much of the current research in Design and Computation for Architecture proposes to automate the production of construction information as a means of freeing architects from the sticky and inconvenient contingencies of ...
Dross : re-genesis of diverse matter : a design post-praxis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The word "dross" refers to matter that is foreign, worn out and impure, such as the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals. Based on a perception of material impurity, this thesis encompasses the generative ...
Urban envelopes : an architecture of adjacency and difference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In a contemporary world of rapidly dwindling resources and the sprawling consumption of landscape, it is important to look at the role of boundary, spatial differentiation and the value of spatial diversity while recognizing ...