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One degree removed : the last carnival of Venice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Development, including urban and architectural, has been driven by the idea of progress aimed at economic and technological growth, which, in turn has been leaving waste in its wake. Waste has thus become the subjects of ...
Into the abstract
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
"Must we not then renounce the object altogether, throw it to the winds and instead lay bare the purely abstract?" - Vasily Kandinsky, 1911 Abstraction is a form of contemplation. It is a means to produce new, while honoring ...
Sichuan fog -- architecture and moisture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis is sited in Chongqing city, the "Fog Capital" of China. Surrounded by the nearby mountains of the Sichuan Basin, the city experiences year-long cloudiness as a result of temperature inversion caused by the ...
Komorebi : embedding dappled sunlight in the built environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Humans are increasingly disconnected from nature. Urbanization, resource exploitation, and changes in ways of living have diminished people's access to nature. Exposure to nature is beneficial to human beings in many ...
MISSION 2066 : a national park for the Antrhopocene
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In 2020, facing the incontrovertible evidence that American protected lands are experiencing rapid climate change well above the national average, the National Park Service releases Mission 2066. The master plan acts as a ...
Responses to the everyday reliefs from the private
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In pursuit of an architecture of the everyday, this investigation applies fascinations with and imaginations of the ordinary to architecture's possibilities for relief in today's increasingly privatized notion of the public. ...
Weathering the storms : new suburban typology for coastal cities through a case study on Winthrop, MA
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Climate change is intensifying natural events around the world. As the sea level rises, coastal cities are becoming more vulnerable to storm surges and flooding. This is especially problematic in the U.S. where the population ...
From seed to sale
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The history of cultivating cannabis can be traced back to at least the 3rd millennium BCE, as evidence suggests it was consumed for psychoactive effects at least 2,500 years ago in the Pamir Mountains in central Asia. ...
Tremulous lines : the alternative history of a site of exception
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
By the end of World War II, there were 7 standing border walls in the world. By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were another 15 walls. Since its destruction, another 20,000km of walls have been erected to ...
Objects of home : a place for architecture in the making of street-homes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Objects of Home re-imagines a home without walls, without roofs without doors, scattered throughout Rome - connected by patterns of use and coincidence. Immersed in a city that is not so anonymous to those who know it, ...