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City As Cemetery, Siqiao Zhao

Masters Theses

The traditional funeral service industry has enormous environmental and financial costs. In contrast, green burial, and Natural Organic Reduction (NOR), accelerate the human body’s degradation and reduce toxic substances in the land, assuming responsibility for our burden on the earth. They provide a gateway between us and the processes of nature and ask us to set aside self-consciousness to accept our oneness with the universe. By gifting our bodies back to the earth, where decomposition enriches soils and nurtures the growth of other life forms, we honor those who have transitioned to another state by continuing the cycle of renewal. …

Appropriate That Bridge: Appropriation As A Way Of Intervention, Haochen Meng

Masters Theses

Appropriation is an action of intervention in many fields, including legislation, culture and design. To appropriate something (or someplace) means to violate its original ownership and claim it, which in most cases is illegal. However, appropriation doesn’t have to be an illegal act: it can be permitted by the authority and become a “reuse” of an object or space. For example, street dining is often authorized by city governments, so they indicate a transition of the ownership of the street from the vehicles and pedestrians to the restaurants and diners. In architectural terms, appropriating a space (or structure) mostly equals …

Uncovering Emotional Contamination: Five Sites Of Trauma, Abigail Zola

Masters Theses

“Emotional contamination,” describes residual feelings associated with a space where a negative or tragic event occurred to an individual or group either personally, historically, or politically. Emotional contamination affects people’s associations with place and informs their willingness to spend time in them. This project considers a set of design principles rooted in uncovering and acknowledging the lifespan of a site, and considers how this acknowledgment can exist as an urban system rather than an individual architectural artifact. My thesis work analyzes five case studies in Berlin where political and economic factors determined the result of intervention, and how these sites …

Public-Ish, Aliah Werth

Masters Theses

Climate change affects public space, and architecture must establish tenets that prioritize pedestrians in this difficult era. Greywater re-use can be a mechanism for creating shade, and in turn, public space.

As heat waves grow more intense, the vast swaths of asphalt that connect commercial zones pose greater risks to public health and to urban vitality. This thesis records the typical material, spatial, and lived conditions of strip malls in urban heat islands, and demands more from infrastructure in public-ish space.

Heat violence weaves through Los Angeles’ built form. Parking space minimums, required setbacks, and height restrictions pull buildings away …

Cohabitation X Adaptation, 2100: A Climate Change Epoch, Kyle Andrews

Masters Theses

Some seventy-seven odd years in the future, the world as we know it will only be recognizable by those who are willing to accept it. The bustling metropolis of Boston Massachusetts has been transformed to appease the tides of Mother Nature as a consequence of human intervention. In the decades prior, humanity viciously fought to contain the effects of climate change, until many realized the colossal undertaking of such a battle. Municipalities across the globe had begun to accept that fighting the earth was no longer an option. Instead, the only hope forward was to adapt to a reality in …

Cracks Of The City: Crack As An Invitation For Informality, Yusha Miao

Masters Theses

随着城市的扩张和发展，城市规划将效率和易于管理放在首位，从而创造出干净、整洁和无障碍的空间。街道更宽更平坦，建筑物更统一，公园更开放。

然而，这种“美丽”城市的愿景却忽视了各类非正式、非主流人群的需求，抹杀了部分人的表达和生存空间。

城市变得不那么包容，失去了基于当地历史和背景的非正式活动所带来的魅力和灵活性。

如果城市采用更加松散和多孔的规划方法，为非正式活动提供潜在场所，例如带来氧气和光线的缺口，非正规经济和那些被推到边缘的经济体将有机会蓬勃发展。设计师不应完全站在制定规则和秩序的立场上，而应提供自发产生活动的可能性。通过接受非正式城市空间不可预测和不受控制的性质，我们可以为这些地区注入新的活力。

本论文通过引入几种增强裂缝的干预措施来挑战现有的城市体系，作为对非正式性的邀请。我的建议涉及打破不同表面的界限，模糊用途和功能。

使用选择性的“阈值”使一些空间变得模糊，甚至更难接近或欢迎，并使它们的用途不明确。它可以创建一系列只对愿意进入的人开放的“城市秘密花园”。这些地方是有选择性的，并且具有更多样化和非正式使用的潜力。

As cities expand and grow, urban planning prioritizes efficiency and ease of management, resulting in clean, uncluttered and accessible spaces. The streets are wider and flatter, the buildings more uniform, and the parks more open.

However, this vision of a "beautiful" city ignores the needs of various informal and non-mainstream groups, and obliterates the expression and living space of some people.

Cities become less inclusive, losing the charm and flexibility that come with informal events based on local history and context.

Informal economies and those pushed to the margins will have the opportunity to …

We Have A (Home) - Co-Operative Homes For Sunset Park, Lisa Qiu

Masters Theses

The thesis believes that the speculative nature of land as property is at the root of the rising cost of quality living space. The combination of profit-driven market force and policies has produced inequality in the accessibility of property ownership.This reality is entangled with a culture that perceives exclusive rights and private ownership as superior to sharing for almost everything, especially the home.

This project believes affordable urban density can be achieved in a city like New York by pushing forward a sense of possibility and desirability in collaborative efforts to create and manage homes. These homes will not be …

Eviction To Placement: Rethinking The Current Supportive Housing Systems For Hidden Homeless Families, Fang-Min Liou

Masters Theses

This thesis focuses on repurposing unoccupied office space into affordable housing systems tailored to meet the unique needs of homeless families. Families with children make up 36 percent of the homeless population overall and children’s homelessness status is almost always “hidden." Architecture and design can play a vital role in addressing social inequity by creating improved living environments for the houseless community through adaptive reuse of underutilized space situated within dense urban areas with the greatest access to resources to support these families, evoke feelings of comfort, security, and hope.

The following thesis accommodates three basic needs of homeless families: …

Between Resiliency And Adaptation, Catherine Joseph

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Water As Medium Adapting Water Towers, Inge Donné, Bie Plevoets

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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A Metropolitan Park Of Water, Renzo Lecardane, Paola La Scala

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Environmental Identity The São Paulo Rivers Case, Anne Schraidber

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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T-House Water As Medium In Interventions And Adaptive Reuse, Katherine Bambrick Ambroziak, Brian Ambroziak

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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The Blue Line Reusing Traditional Rural Water Management Systems, Francesco Garofalo

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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The Hammam Of Erbil Citadel A Confluence Of Past, Present, And Future, Ahmed Abbas, Karen Lens

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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(Re)Made By Water Obsolescence, Urban Nomadism And The New World Mall, Bangkok, Gregory Marinic

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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The Oyster Blocks Project Subaqueous Interventions For Non-Humans, Michael Leighton Beaman

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Back To The Future The Spatial Dimension Of Water Management, Kees Lokman

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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The Edge Condition Re-Use Of Industrial Heritage On Urban Waterfronts, Graeme Evans, Naomi House

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Breathe, Look, Stand Up The Second Life Of Water Infrastructure, Lindsay Winstead

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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The Tears Of The U.S.S. Arizona A Tomb That Lives, Alexander Ford, Nicholas Gervasi

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Picturing Space The Manipulation Of Architectural Imagery, Jeffrey Katz

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Converging In Space Art, Architecture, And Urbanism In P.S. 1’S Rooms Exhibition, Cecilia Thornton-Alson

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Figural Identity In Adaptive Reuse Preserved, New, And Hybrid, Marie S.A. Sorenson

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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From Rust To Reuse From Building To Community Through Instrument Making, Zeke Leonard

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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The Butterfly Effect Artist Itinerancy And Adaptive Reuse, Marion Wilson

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Singularities Of Place, Elizabeth G.M. Parker

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Design, Subjectivity, And Culture Notes On Productions, Clay Odom

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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Coming Home A Conversation With Do Ho Suh, Lea Hershkowitz

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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What Once Was, Jenna Balute

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

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