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Design infrastructure for large organizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
How may design address the conditions of change and creativity in today's workplace environment? Increasingly there is the recognition that in order to develop effective workplaces, the design not only needs to respond to ...
Suggestions for new vertical public space of the future city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
People's physical patterns are composed of continuity and congestion in their space, which are created as a life realm by movements of people. Perhaps their history, present living, and future are reminded of regrets, ...
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 ...
The inter-relationship of nature and built form in an urban context
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
How does one mediate between nature and the city as development continues to arise out of necessity? What is the significance of the connection between nature and city and how can they be articulated? What is the relationship ...
Computational design of a theater complex for Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The design of a theater complex for Boston is used as a test case for the more integrated use of computers in the design process. In architecture digital media remain mostly tools for efficiency and productivity rather ...
A re-connection : modeling built works after natural systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The constructed world is full of built works that consume energy and emit unusable waste. This is fostered by the act of 'masking' the true situation and the lack of embedded feedback, associated with the destructive ...
Urban Relay : circulation morphology [accelerator city]
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Generally, in the contemporary cities vertical buildings are conceived and implemented as subdivided volumes that set up highly regularized modes of inhabitation. This condition limits the possibility for more complex and ...
Rethinking the modern : imagining the future of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The thesis seeks to explore the implications of the emergence of the digital media as a new art form on the museum space. The museum as an institution has faced some ideological and philosophical contradictions in recent ...
Urban oasis : the central market redevelopment of Hong Kong
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
In the ultra-urban centers of today, "nature" has become a precious resource that often gets sacrificed in the name of progress and development. The presence of nature has become increasingly elusive in the concrete jungle ...
Mediated urban civic space : info deck of the Hong Kong SAR Government Info-tainment Headquarters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
After being a British colony for more than hundred years, Hong Kong's final handover back to China took place 1st July 1997. There are tremendous demands on the new government to reflect her status during this critical ...