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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 ...
Reinvention through reuse : strategies for the adaptive reuse of large-scale buildings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
The practice of adaptive reuse has grown in popularity in the United States over the past few decades, with now about 90% of architect-commissioned work involving some interaction with an existing structure. While the ...
Taming Torridity New Housing Forms for Heat Resilience
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
Intervening on the contemporary US housing typology of the single-family home, this work imagines new building forms that foster resilience to extreme heat through social proximity, housing heterogeneity, and novel space ...
Co-Working in Seoul: Integrating Public Infrastructure into the Metaverse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
Hybrid working has now become the new normal. Besides working from home, there is an increasing demand for a space that is neither home nor the traditional office. While the home office has many benefits such as flexibility, ...
Nudging Permanence
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)
Across Berlin’s history, the street- as image, as space, as imaginary, as activity – has been, and continues to be, continuously appropriated and contested by stakeholders across the city - residents, owners, shopkeepers, ...