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Disturbance grounds : an inquiry into non-equilibrium architectural states
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Fundamentally, this project pursues the concept of construction from destructive forces. It presents architectural opportunity at the physical scale of the mega-city and the time scale of the geological, advocating for a ...
A city hall for Delhi and New Delhi (India)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960)
Cow-op : living and learning from our food
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
How many of us actually know what we are eating? Our relationship with food is one of consumption. We see food, we eat food. Our current food life cycle model delivers meals directly to our plates with little or no oversight. ...
Vertical Village : towards a new typology of high-density low-income urban housing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Apocalyptic global urbanization is old news. For generations statistically supported oracles have warned against the rising tide of rapid urban growth, one must only casually search the keywords "urban slum" on Goggle to ...
Finance & architecture : a tragic love story
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Our markets are volatile. Our economy is unstable. Our future is unknown. This thesis investigates the architecture of financial institutions within in the current context of complete failure and abstraction. Historically, ...
Soft boundaries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Textiles have always played a critical role in the spaces we inhabit. Although textiles are often in opposition to what we consider to be architecture. Architecture is permanent, grounded, fixed; textiles are temporary, ...
Urban Playhouse : a Chinese communal drama in seven acts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The thesis examines the social-political issues resulting from the immense expansion of mundane housing developments in China under a totalitarian state. Initially influenced by the Soviet Union in the 1950s, the four to ...
Entrepreneurial Tech-Ed. : using technology to fuel income generation education in rural Ghana/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis investigates how decentralization of development occurs through merging small-scale technology hubs into the rural West African fabric by integrating with the secondary school system. This model redefines the ...
Store House : unpacking the American dream
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Since 1950 the average US home has grown from 1100 square feet to over 2600 square feet. During this same period the average family size shrunk by a person, meaning that per capita residential square footage has more than ...
Interstitial DenCity : an architectural apparatus of political mediations in Chinese urban villages
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Since the 1979 Economic Reform, the Chinese government's authoritarian interference with land use development to serve developers and its own interests has led to incongruent development between industrialization and ...