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Modeling the resource consumption of Housing in New Orleans using System Dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This work uses Systems Dynamics as a methodology to analyze the resource requirements of New Orleans as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina. It examines the behavior of the city as a system of stocks, flows and time delays ...
On the waterfront : a 25 year study of the relative risk & return of Florida single-family waterfront and inland homes (1977-2002)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This study applies the classic capital markets risk/return relationship-the riskier the investment, the greater the expected return-to the single-family home market. Treating coastal waterfront property as a unique asset ...
CompactCities : analyzing the urban spatial structure in cities with growth restrictions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
A compact city form is one that espouses high intensity development within a restrictive geographic area. Its perceived benefits include (a) saving agricultural land (b) inducing shorter commute trips, thus less consumption ...
De-/Constructing situations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
My thesis is inhabited by reflections on interweaving the constructive and the destructive development of situations. During the last year, I experimented with the observation of circumstances and their subsequent ...
The rhetoric of architecture and the language of pleasure : the maison de plaisance in eighteen-century France
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis investigates the history of the petite maison (otherwise known as a little house) in eighteenth-century France. In particular, I focus on a popular libertine novella written in 1758 by Jean-Francois de Bastide ...
Embedding methods for massing and detail design in computer generated design of skyscrapers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis proposes a new digital system to construct the massing and details of skyscrapers. It extracts underlying rules and design conventions from significant projects in contemporary skyscraper design practice. These ...
Cineplastic : temporal paradox in the movement-image medium
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
It could be argued that the term 'digital' as a prefix to architecture is evidence that contemporary design practice is lost in time. Modernity's predilection of spatial constructs over temporal ones continues to cast a ...
Customized digital manufacturing : concept to construction methods across varying product scales
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Architectural design and construction is rapidly changing through the extensive adoption of digital design, manufacture and assembly tools. Customized assemblies are paired and recombined to create unique spatial enclosures. ...
Flexible urbanism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis seeks to find a new approach/method towards urbanization in existing low density neighborhoods in major metropolitan cities in the United States. The near South side of the city of Chicago (a city that carries ...
The M.I.T. Endicott House : a study in highest and best use
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Since the 1950's, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been in possession of the Endicott House, a 19-acre property and former family estate located in Dedham, MA. A highest and best use analysis was performed on ...