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Surface space : digital manufacturing techniques and emergent building material
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis explores tectonic possibilities of new material and forming techniques. The design process is catalyzed by experimenting different configurations of the material.This project attempts to develop inventive ways ...
Pulling back the curtain : revealing the production of performance in the Hawaiian Islands
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Harbors throughout the Hawaiian Islands serve as the dating a growing commercial cruise ship industry, foreign activity. They are also increasingly sites of controversy structures restrict local access and use of harbor ...
Proximity of body & mind : urban gym as a heterotopic domain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In the present urban space, where an individual is exposed to the conditions of heterogeneity and anonymity, a conventional Bodybuilding Gym opens up certain issues of emplacement of un/nder-spoken men's body and its ...
Micro architecture : architecture for daily social activities within Beijing's hutongs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis is an attempt to propose the alternative architectural strategy which derives from the Micro Urbanism in the micro-scale realm in the Asian main cities. Based on the Micro Urbanism, the project is to propose a ...
"GrizzlieTown" : public memory, urban competition, and the new Memphis Arena
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Many cities struggle to compete for revenue and the promise of future growth by building new entertainment complexes downtown, and in doing so make spatial compromises in the effort to get ahead. Urban Competition should ...
Pequossette Riverway : design visions for the urban river edge, Watertown, Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
The thesis of this project is to activate and connect both sides of the Charles River for the community of Watertown. As of today, there has been a great deal of work to improve the recreational path linking Boston and ...
Re-embedding the global soul
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis proposes to "re-embed" the "global nomad" into the context of an increasingly globalized world at the room scale. I define re-embedding as the "plugging in" of social relationships to local contexts and their ...
O! Canada? : a pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
While ninety percent of new buildings in Canada are built with light wood framing, the conventions of this construction method are seldom challenged, the economic systems behind their materials scarcely exposed, and the ...
Revealing Burlington : Vermont architecture on the edge
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This project explores building in the most urban environment of a state that identifies with its ruralness. The site, located at the top of a steep bluff in Burlington at the edge between the city's downtown core and its ...
Toward a shifting inhabitation, Kaho'olawe, Hawaii
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The island of Kaho'olawe is a desert island in the Romantic sense: it is unapproachable and unsettleable, yet always an object of desire. Waterless, used for military target practice, cleaned up, and being replanted, the ...