The Thermoplastic Honeycomb As An Eco-Friendly Material For Shelters, 2024 Tanta university
The Thermoplastic Honeycomb As An Eco-Friendly Material For Shelters, Neveen Youssef Azmy, Wesam Aeh Mehanna, Aya Fouad Kahla
Journal of Engineering Research
Nature-inspired design offers distinct environmental characteristics and makes them valuable in the development of structural designs within the construction industry, owing to their inherent natural and aesthetic qualities. Hexagonal structures exhibit remarkable mechanical, structural, and environmental attributes. Consequently, this research focuses on investigating honeycomb configurations composed of thermoplastic materials that engage thermally with the surrounding environment, as well as exploring their applications in temporary structures. The research aims to contribute to a temporary design model for shelter to protect the environment well and improve energy consumption by using a thermoplastic honeycomb to sustainable environment. A specialized model was developed to …
Building Materials Cut From The Earth: A Look At Sod Construction Around The World And In New Mexico, 2024 University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Building Materials Cut From The Earth: A Look At Sod Construction Around The World And In New Mexico, Giulia Caporuscio
Architecture and Planning ETDs
Terrón, or sod, is an earthen building technology that is being lost. The blocks are cut directly from the ground, generally along banks of bodies of fresh water, marshlands, or grassland valleys. The resulting blocks are clay rich with plant root systems that provide strength to the construction material. This building material is found in archeological and modern structures around the world. Today the material and knowledge behind this earthen technology is being lost.
This paper starts by summarizing other studies of sod construction in Indigenous cultures of the Americas, homesteaders of the Plains of the United States and Canada …
3d Printing Technology: Challenges, And Potentials In Achieving Sustainable Buildings, 2024 Modern Academy for Engineering &Technology.
3d Printing Technology: Challenges, And Potentials In Achieving Sustainable Buildings, Sahar Mohamed Abd El Rahman, Sobhy Ibrahim Esmail
Journal of Engineering Research
The utilization of 3D printing technology in building construction has emerged as a promising approach with the potential to revolutionize the industry and significantly impact sustainability. This paper examines the role of 3D printing in building construction and explores its implications for sustainability. Through the ability to fabricate complex designs with precision and efficiency, 3D printing offers advantages such as reduced material waste, lower energy consumption, and decreased carbon emissions. Additionally, the use of locally sourced, recyclable materials combined with the customization capabilities of 3D printing enhances resource efficiency and minimizes environmental impact. Furthermore, the construction process is streamlined, leading …
Agility Opportunities In Construction Project Management “Exploring Opportunities In Construction Projects In Integration With Waterfall Methodology.”, 2024 Modern academy for engineering and technology
Agility Opportunities In Construction Project Management “Exploring Opportunities In Construction Projects In Integration With Waterfall Methodology.”, Nevine G. Gado Dr., Noha A, Elsayed Dr
Journal of Engineering Research
The objective of project management for construction projects is to deliver projects that meet customer requirements, business values, and goals in the most efficient manner. Project management is considered one of the vastly debated fields currently while the commonly adopted approach is still the waterfall model. However, in today's construction market, the number of different stakeholders,’ and the way projects awarded are changing. This has created a gap between management's belief of how today's construction projects should be conducted and how they are executed. Despite the growing importance of traditional construction project management as the preferred project delivery method, there …
A Dispatch From The Site Office, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
A Dispatch From The Site Office, Adrian Pelliccia
Masters Theses
In the middle of the 20th century, a rare confluence of political, economic, and cultural forces aligned to produce a slate of highly progressive policy and design agendas for social housing in the United Kingdom. A widely shared utopian ambition to house all people with dignity was made real by a motivated government and its well-resourced planning and architecture offices, tasked with bringing this vision to bear in the built environment. In London, the London County Council Architect’s Office and later local council-led architecture and planning offices were at the forefront of designing and delivering high quality, formally ambitious housing …
Frontier: Land, Architecture, And Abstraction, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Frontier: Land, Architecture, And Abstraction, Jacob Boatman
Masters Theses
The abstraction of land is a colonial process by which physical land is transformed into a conceptual or symbolic entity. This transformation occurs through various economic, architectural, and cultural practices that imbue land with abstract values, meanings, and functions beyond its physicality. This includes the division of land into parcels for economic transactions, the design and construction of built environments that shape human interactions with the land, and the cultural narratives and representations that ascribe significance to particular landscapes. Through abstraction, colonial powers devalue indigenous perspectives and relationships to the land, reducing them to mere obstacles in the path of …
Corner Revolution: Beyond “Skynet”, Brightening Grey Space And Building Security, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Corner Revolution: Beyond “Skynet”, Brightening Grey Space And Building Security, Caimin Shen
Masters Theses
The existence of surveillance areas restricts many bad behaviors, but why do we still feel vague anxiety and uneasiness when walking through street corners and promenades in a city protected by a network of cameras? As China has implemented grid management of cities through the establishment of the “Skynet”—— a system that uses facial recognition and surveillance cameras to strengthen public safety, the crime rate has dropped significantly. But public safety doesn’t just mean fewer criminal activities. Reducing people’s perceived insecurity and anxiety has become a new challenge in China today. “Corner Revolution” explores the transformative power of architectural design …
Outside_In, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Outside_In, Zixuan Zhang
Masters Theses
In the post-COVID era, the importance of maintaining a connection with the external environment has become even more prominent. Outside_in is a series of ongoing installations located at the openings of modern buildings (spaces in between the interior and exterior) that can connect with or receive climatic resources such as wind, rainwater, sunlight, and more. Its purpose is to rethink and challenge how we can enhance the relationship with and awareness of climate and nature in our future indoor spaces through innovative experiential methods. This approach prioritizes the use of natural materials, supplemented by modern materials, and emphasizes the empathic …
Bilateral Vertical Urbanization, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Bilateral Vertical Urbanization, Yifan Huang
Masters Theses
Bilateral Vertical Urbanization envisions a bright future for urban development. Metropolises are currently facing the dilemma of dense population, small living area per capita, long commuting times, traffic congestion, and other urban problems. My thesis proposes an innovative urban development strategy, suggesting the redevelopment of underground space resources in cities to improve urban space utilization and help alleviate the crisis of overcrowding. San Francisco, the shining jewel on the West Coast of the United States, is facing this dilemma, as well as the long-term risks of devastating earthquakes and rising sea levels.
My urban planning methodology points out that we …
Searching For The Hyperobject: Crystals As Transscalar Vehicles, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Searching For The Hyperobject: Crystals As Transscalar Vehicles, Jay Costello
Masters Theses
When I touch the street outside my house, I'm touching Los Angeles—a contiguous vector of material bisecting a continent. A slab, a stone, dust and oil, a googolplex of tightly packed anisotropic particles... At nightfall, I sneak to the edge of the highway and break off a piece. 'What does it mean for a worm to be aware of the scale of the planet?' Bruno Latour's evocative questioning of scalar jumps prompts an existentialism that places me somewhere between the hyperlocal and the massively distributed. Like a cosmic traveler floating through the universe, I feel adrift. I look around, grasping …
The Runis: How Can Social Remidation And Environmental Remeidation Be Linked Throguh Architecture?, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
The Runis: How Can Social Remidation And Environmental Remeidation Be Linked Throguh Architecture?, Tayu Ting
Masters Theses
This thesis delves into the integration of social and environmental remediation through innovative architectural strategies, focusing on the adaptive reuse of an abandoned copper smelter plant in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The project confronts the site’s industrial legacy by deploying contemporary programs that cultivate a productive, sustainable, and community-oriented environment. A pivotal aspect of the redevelopment is a phytoremediation system utilizing wetlands to purify toxic metal-contaminated water, thus restoring ecological integrity and providing clean water to the community.
At the heart of this transformation is the artistic integration of glassmaking, where flowers and plants that have absorbed metals through phytoremediation …
Beyond The Idle Machine: Spatio-Subjective Architecture, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Beyond The Idle Machine: Spatio-Subjective Architecture, Andrew Schnurr
Masters Theses
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Architecture As A Carbon-Based Practice, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Architecture As A Carbon-Based Practice, Qixin Yu
Masters Theses
Carbon serves as both a silent protagonist and a looming antagonist in the narrative of architecture, shaping not only the physical structures we inhabit but also the ecological legacy we leave behind.
Centuries of human exploitation of the environment have led to climate and material crises. Shifting this dynamic requires action at micro (matter), meso (material), and macro (materiality) levels. Biogenic materials offer significant potential for carbon sequestration and present opportunities for the building industry to collaborate with nature rather than merely extract from it.
This thesis establishes a research and manufacturing practice that prioritizes material innovation, carbon sequestration, environmental …
Snowstorm, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Snowstorm, Caleb Shafer
Masters Theses
This thesis explores the connection between memory and place-building, focusing on how personal narratives and physical models compress details to reveal their core essence. Memories serve as a bridge between time and space, allowing for a non-linear experience of time and offering a unique perspective on the existence and transformation of places. Although this compression involves some loss, it generates new narratives and insights into life while examining the power structures and cultural systems inherent in representation.
House Calls, 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
House Calls, Gregory Goldstone
Masters Theses
This thesis explores the unique architectural challenges and opportunities present in rural communities, with a focus on addressing the crisis of affordable housing. Grounding the discussion in the author's personal experiences growing up in the rural town of Cambridge, New York, the thesis illuminates the diversity of identities, needs, and values that coexist within the rural context.
The thesis critically examines the architectural academy and its urban-centric biases, which have led to a neglect of rural design issues. It highlights the shortcomings of standard affordable housing approaches, such as public housing and mobile homes, in meeting the independent spirit and …
Unsettling Climate: The Consequences Of Domestic Buildings Technologies Across The Spanish Empire, 2024 Yale University
Unsettling Climate: The Consequences Of Domestic Buildings Technologies Across The Spanish Empire, Alberto Martinez Garcia
Masters of Environmental Design Theses
Upon their arrival in the Americas in the sixteenth century, Spanish colonizers encountered a tropical climate previously unknown to Europeans. In the four hundred years of their empire, the colonizers set themselves on a collision course of maladaptation, violence towards Indigenous people, and erasure of their knowledge. Unsettling Climate investigates the domestic constructions of Spanish colonization in the tropics during the colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. Using case studies from patio houses in Cartagena in Colombia and bahay na bato (houses of stone) in the Philippines, this project analyzes the relationship between the natural environment, domestic space, and …
Straw Bale Net Zero: Sustainable Building Solutions, 2024 CUNY New York City College of Technology
Straw Bale Net Zero: Sustainable Building Solutions, Nick Antoine, Michael Ray Malonjao, Mohamed Hassan, Fareda Elsherif, Brailyn Ventura
Publications and Research
Our primary building material will be rice straw bale, which has a high thermal mass and is bio based. Straw bale, a natural byproduct derived from the dried stems of cereal plants, serves as a carbon sequester. When a straw bale decomposes, it releases its stored carbon; however, by utilizing it as a building material, we effectively retain carbon within the bales throughout the building's life cycle, thereby keeping it from being released into the atmosphere. By using bio-based materials with high thermal mass, we effectively reduce the energy demand for heating. Our building also has renewable energy sources and …
Modulating Recycled Plastic: A Sustainable Solution To Plastic Pollution Through Innovative Recycling, 2024 Kennesaw State University
Modulating Recycled Plastic: A Sustainable Solution To Plastic Pollution Through Innovative Recycling, Galo Cruz
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
Initially celebrated as a miracle material, modern society’s dependence on plastics has resulted in urgent environmental challenges. The consequences of this dependence are: widespread plastic pollution, an environment grappling with near-indestructible waste, and a health crisis fueled by malignant microplastics. In response to this urgent junction of environmental challenges, this research sets forth to further the transformative approach explored by Janel Sitt’s 2020 thesis and aims to answer the following questions:
1. Why does our dependence on single-use plastic jeopardize our environment, severely impacting food supplies, marine life, and overall quality of life?
2. As designers, are there opportunities for …
Resurgence, 2024 Kennesaw State University
Resurgence, Caleb Willis
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
As much as technology has advanced in the past couple of centuries, it appears that the relationship between the architect and the site has only grown thinner. Working from home and technological advancements have created an environment that loosens the grasp that architects have with the site. Documents are sent directly to contractors over email, buildings are standardized and plotted unto any landscape desired, and buildings are demolished at the touch of a button. With this loss in connectivity, this project aims to reconnect the architect to their site, as they shall be issued land for development, not a building. …
[A]Rchitectural_[I]Ntelligence: A Visual Design Journey Through The Lens Of Ai, 2024 Kennesaw State University
[A]Rchitectural_[I]Ntelligence: A Visual Design Journey Through The Lens Of Ai, Cameron Fiveash
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in architecture has revolutionized design thinking, providing architects with powerful tools for exploration and creation. This thesis examines the transformative potential of AI engines, particularly MidJourney, in enhancing architectural design processes. MidJourney's advanced image analysis capabilities offer architects a unique opportunity to study architectural forms through AI, fostering a symbiotic relationship between human creativity and machine intelligence.
The research explores AI's evolving role in the creative process, emphasizing its ability to augment human ingenuity rather than replace it. Architects can leverage MidJourney's AI engine to explore diverse design possibilities and discover innovative solutions to …