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The city village : a design for public and semi-public places and paths in a residential and office community in Cambridge, Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
The City Village thesis maintains that the diverse activities of living and working can co-inhabit the same complex of buildings providing that this complex promotes community through the architecture of its form and ...
Continuity, stability and exchange : design transformations of/projections for a housing project in Lahore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
The role of planner is something that post industrial society has thrust upon architects in the twentieth century. Whereas previously they were limited mostly to the design of singular special buildings for the environment, ...
A corporate fitness center : an example for the reuse of the Empire Stores, Brooklyn, N.Y.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
The proliferation of over 500 fitness programs for the employees of American corporations marks a turning point for the way American corporations regard employee and corporate health. Typically, sports facilities were the ...
Habitable wall as a design strategy for enclave housing : a proposal for an urban residential architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
On self-help in a site and services project in Kenya
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
The concept of self-help in a site and services project is based on the assumption that given the security of land tenureship_, an owner-builder can manage the whole process of house implementation. Generally, in any ...
Professional practice and the middle ground : an understanding of order in participatory housing interventions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987)
This paper argues that the professional involved with participatory housing interventions needs a new way to practice. The improvement of housing demands a constructive dialogue in a working context that defies rigid ways ...
Aquatecture : underwater dwellings and sea born structures as paradigms of design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
There are many reasons for undertaking a work such as this. Among them are the benefits offered to society when we acknowledge the potential of submersible structures, The provision of habitable underwater space remains ...
A tissue, a building, Santiago de Chile : transformation of the images and elements of the language of space and form into the design of a promenade
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
This study explores a strategy for an urban intervention in Centro Poniente, Santiago de Chile. Centro Poniente represents an urban district that needs some sense of focus and orientation. The hypothesis is that such an ...
Residential California adobe : mud form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)
Northern California has a rich tradition of adobe architecture . Formed with earth, defined by site, climate and use, the adobe structures exemplify a building methodology in harmony with nature and the lifestyle of it's ...
A multiuse building for Vaasa, Finland : a design through change for continuity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
This design thesis presents an alternative way of introducing a new building into an existing urban setting. The visibility of change through time is one of a city's most valuable assets. However, the sense of continuity ...