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Urban temporal storage : re-thinking the public domain using interstitial space in NYC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis aims to rethink the notion of public space and civic duty in the city. By using interstitial, underused spaces, without disputing present urban and legal status, the thesis wants to accomodate services for the ...
An educator in the landscape : a new identity for American wilderness architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis dispenses with the traditional, now nostalgic, "rustic" style typically associated with the American wilderness, in favor of proposing a new identity - that of Educator in the Landscape. By blending bio-technology ...
Urban envelopes : an architecture of adjacency and difference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In a contemporary world of rapidly dwindling resources and the sprawling consumption of landscape, it is important to look at the role of boundary, spatial differentiation and the value of spatial diversity while recognizing ...
Hosting wellness : devices for healing the body
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In today's global economy, expenditure on the promotion of health is steadily rising across continents. With many nations spending over 10% of their GDP on public health, we are now seeing many medical practices achieving ...
Back to school : the alternate ground of integration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis embraces the leftover spaces along the back alleyways and turns them into fronts. It proposes inhabitation of spaces below,above and in-between the warehouses through strategic and programmatically specific ...
Future perfect : reintegrating housing and production in the Berlin Block/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The beginning of the 21st century has been marked by an apparently ubiquitous state of crisis, which transcends national boundaries and is reshaping global relationships. Financial meltdowns, the lack of affordable housing, ...
Tempus fugit : music and the ephemeral in architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
I am interested in the relationship between solidity and transparency, between permanence and ephemerality, in the context of the modern city. This thesis is an exploration of transience and of social and phenomenal exchange, ...
From artifact to site : understanding the canal in the city of gardens
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The words 'garden' and 'infrastructure' express the power of culture over nature. In celebration of its history of Mughal gardens and waterworks, Lahore has been construed in local imaginations as "the city of gardens". ...
Form elements of houses : investigating the collective form of detached houses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
This thesis focuses on the collective form of detached houses. A result of the American phenomenon of detached, single family, freestanding houses being the standard type. Through an observation of eight environments of ...
Built to last : designing for a referential continuity in the built environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
This thesis is about exploring a way of understanding, designing and building architecture which acknowledges that we are a part of a world which is always changing and becoming, without denying or forgetting the past, and ...