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The reconsidered river : strategies for connections in post-industrial Buffalo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis sets out to connect two isolated neighborhoods within the post-industrial city of Buffalo, NY. The design strategy capitalizes on existing opportunities in Silo City, a neighborhood of abandoned grain elevators ...
People's Wall : reconstructing a new city wall for the modern city of Beijing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
"If the Warsaw community is to be reborn, if its core is to be constituted by former Warsawians, then they have to be given back, their old rebuilt Warsaw to some extent, so that they can see in it the same city, though ...
Conversation on saving a historical community : a participatory renewal and preservation platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
What if stakeholders, architects, and developers/bureaucrats could be in a conversation about preservation? Community heritage in China is in great danger because of the lack of authority, financial support, knowledge of ...
Library of wonder : the story of me, books, and libraries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In 2008, we tore all our books from the past three years into pieces. It was a celebration of graduating from high school and longing for a new life. Yes, we hated books. We were forced to stay in the classroom 10 hours ...
Spaces between places
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In a fast-forwarded Brooklyn, the over-building of luxury towers leads to a real estate bubble burst. Waterfront rents stagnate, and entire buildings sit abandoned. In a city defined by divisions, a social movement emerges. ...
The ecology of truth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
The spaces we inhabit influence the way we experience our surroundings, but this causal relationship is much weaker than designers and architects like to imagine. The Ecology of Truth investigates these weak effects as a ...
Vertical neighborhoods : a residential high-rise design exploration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
Courtroom characters, architectural actors : a play in several acts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis takes aim at several agendas within architectural discourse. On one hand it is a demonstration of the architectural understanding of mask. The mask, as both an object of formal and figural qualities as well as ...
Engaging public voice in big data society : an on-line participatory design experiment.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Should the design of architecture be solely in control by architects? Should we trust the public to let them design with us? These are the core discussion revolves around participatory design, a design approach involves ...
New norc city/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
People in cities in select parts of the world are on the cusp of a paradigm never before experienced by previous generations. The demographic-economic paradox tells us there is an inverse correlation found between wealth ...