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A living environment for aged people, through integration of properly designed housing and facilities into a thriving community
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"Living for the City:" : the political meaning of public housing residents' extraordinary struggle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)While the particularities of public housing residents' hardships often capture the attention of the national media, less recognized and understood is how public housing residents work to address the instabilities they ... -
Living in Arverne : rebuilding the experience of landscape
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)How do we approach the inhabitation of a landscape? Starting with an understanding of the ecological system, the design acts as an enabler to the landscape, both at the scale of the urban plan and at the scale of the ... -
Living in the shadow of Mauna Loa
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)One of Hawaii's most dangerous natural hazards is sitting in plain sight: Mauna Loa volcano. The mighty mountain makes up more than fifty percent of the island and is the largest volcano on Earth. Since 1843, when people ... -
Living information as a socially-mediated high school
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)(cont.) In this blurred area, a project/group-based curriculum can be developed to involve casual work areas that can fluctuate in size, based on the specifications of the project. Through the cultivation of this type of ... -
Living large : an alternative model for urban living
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)A house once symbolized the American dream-frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs, the single-family dwelling not only represented financial success but stability and hope for the future. However, as recent ... -
The living library : an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is combating climate change, deforestation, and loss of traditional knowledge by preserving their plants in the wild
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Farmacia Viva Indigena, the Living Indigenous Pharmacy, is five hectares of primary forest in the Amazon preserved as an intact library of indigenous plants, many of them medicinally useful, near the river village of Paoyhan ... -
Living materials for the deployment of genetically engineered organisms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The primary objective of this work is to establish an innovative and broad platform to engineer living materials and assemble them into functional devices. First, we assemble bacterial sensor communities into core-shell ... -
Living matter : biomaterials for design and architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)For over a decade, we have witnessed a new emphasis in digital architecture on modes of production and material-based approaches rather than on form, geometry, and representation alone. As a result, fabrication techniques ... -
A living monument for a rootless city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)The Chinese city of Shenzhen has transformed from a small village to a megacity in just three decades due to the nation's economic policies. Despite its economic success, the city struggles with a lack of identity. In this ... -
Living museum of the bay : Chesapeake Bay Aquarium
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)This thesis is the design of an aquarium in the industrial city of Newport News, Virginia The focus is a living museum that illustrates the diversity beauty and grandeur of a precious yet fragile estuary, the Chesapeake ... -
Living out west : shelter, neighbor and garden
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)In cluster housing each house becomes more than a single entity-it is connected to and a member of a community of dwellings. Their designs focus on both the formation of the "home" and the "neighborhood" in which they ... -
The living skyscraper : mapping the vertical neighborhood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The rise of the skyscraper was not driven by programmatic needs or artistic desires, but rather economic conditions coupled with turn-of-the-century technological innovations. As it evolved, systems matured to provide ... -
LIVING TINY
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Living Tiny is a thesis that explores the role of architecture as a tool for designing both the built environment as well as the social realm of living. In a rapidly urbanizing world, the current pattern of city development ... -
A living wage : strategies for implementation of the minimun wage : the case of the Indian beedi industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)92% of India's total workforce (approximately 320 million workers) is employed in the unorganized sector. Out of these, 4.4 million workers are employed by the beedi (indigenous cigarette) industry. Annually, this industry ... -
Living With Crisis: Family, Labor, and Environment in Flint, Michigan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)In 2014, residents of a small American city were exposed to dangerous levels of lead and bacteria in the drinking water supply and forced to grapple with long-term harm to their health and water infrastructure. The Flint ... -
Living with the dead
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis seeks to reimagine the space for the anonymous dead in New York City by proposing a new scenario for burial on Manhattan, which reconnects the alienated community and program to the heart of the city and other ... -
Living with the past : preservation and development in Japanese architecture and town planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)The study examines the architectural preservation program as it has developed over the past century in Japan, and demonstrates how relics of the past have been manipulated and re-interpreted by individuals and communities ... -
The living workplace : a conscious work environment for a small publishing company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)This thesis is about the oneness of working and living, and about the making of workplaces that support and encourage the idea that one's work can be an integral part of one's life. The opening position is that there is a ... -
Living α-olefin polymerization by cationic zirconium and hafnium complexes containing chelating diamidopyridine ligands
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
