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Fair game : learning from La Salada
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis seeks to expand the potential role of urban design for informal places under the process of formalization. More specifically, it examines the spatial principles that comprise the successful cultural and economic ...
Computing drawing : programming a vintage pen plotter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The drawn artifact and the act of drawing are uniquely suited for design thinking. Specifically, drawings that were traditionally crafted "by hand" are prone to qualities that promote a productive multiplicity of ...
Field container as a regional strategy for revitalizing the Los Angeles River
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis is the study of the Los Angeles River as a multi-layered field with urban condensers that revitalize the river, connect and revitalize the municipal districts bordering the river, and restructure the region to ...
Design - Make : the translation of design intention to fabrication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The process of making innovative buildings is stifled by our current methodology of communicating design information. Advances in new techniques, technologies, methods, materials and knowledge for both designers and ...
Tactility and architecture : Peter Zumthor's Thermal baths in Vals and the hybridization of the two motifs of tactility-materiality and movement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Tactility holds a unique position in modem architectural discourse. Oftentimes, it has been evoked "as an alternative to two-dimensional vision. However, the notion of tactility sometimes denotes ambiguous and often ...
Structural analysis and assessment of Guastavino vaulting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis studies the behavior and pathologies of the masonry tile structures built by the R. Guastavino Company in order to provide recommendations on their analysis and assessment. Structural analyses of two specific ...
Disaster debris management and recovery of housing stock in San Francisco, CA
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis investigates the potential effects of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in San Francisco City, particularly the implications on San Francisco's residential housing stock and impacts on the construction and demolition ...
[a]sorted selection : improving building performance and diversity using a new form of interactive evolutionary algorithm
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
There have been numerous studies demonstrating the use of optimization in architecture, yet it has not been adopted in the field, especially in the early stages of design. As buildings become more complex, the use of ...
Redefining historical Bukhara : professional architectural vision of the national heritage in late Soviet Uzbekistan (1965 - 1991)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis focuses on how Bukhara's architectural heritage was interpreted and redefined by local architectural professionals between 1965 and 1991, a period characterized by heightened interest in architectural heritage ...
Higher occupancy humanism : the trade-offs for encouraging middle income housing in a global city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
In high density urban areas where the land acquisition and construction cost components are significant relative to total development costs, the market typically supplies a high-income housing product in order to justify ...