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Fluid Futures: The Revitalization Of Yangzhou Through Its Historical Waterways, Feiyang Wu
Fluid Futures: The Revitalization Of Yangzhou Through Its Historical Waterways, Feiyang Wu
Masters Theses
In China, cities such as Yangzhou, which in pre-modern times played central roles in the political, cultural, and economic functioning of the country based on their geographic location, proximity to water-based trade routes, and connections to the imperial court, are today facing uncertain futures due to waterways no longer being critical to trade, and government-driven development being focused on first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. With this, the working-age population migrates from smaller cities toward these urban giants, leaving behind aging relatives, a less robust and diversified economic base, and few attributes other than cultural tourism that …
Memory And Experiential Lab, Yufan Xu
Memory And Experiential Lab, Yufan Xu
Masters Theses
In the tapestry of our lives, there exist moments and places that we can never revisit, scenes etched into our memories that fade with the passage of time. These experiences and memories are treasures, provide us with an anchor to our past. Unfortunately, many of these moments are like fireflies in the night, here one moment and gone the next. Yet, they remain invaluable, forever etched in our hearts and minds. I wonder if it is possible to trigger cherished past experiences and memories in our daily lives, allowing individuals to re-experience similar moments, thereby nourishing the spiritual world. Therefore, …
Conspicuous Repair: Drawing Attention To Brokenness In Public Landscapes, Ashley Pedersen
Conspicuous Repair: Drawing Attention To Brokenness In Public Landscapes, Ashley Pedersen
Masters Theses
Repair, as a design provocation, encourages material conservation, hands-on engagement with materiality, and evaluation of maintenance routines all of which contribute to a model of sustainability that values a circular economy and degrowth. Through visible repairs that focus our ongoing attention on brokenness, repair has the potential to illuminate, and start to address the systemic causes of brokenness. In this way, repair can be a catalyst for increased stewardship of a place.
Conspicuous Repair: Drawing Attention to Brokenness in Public Landscapes investigates clay as a suitable material for the repair of masonry in urban landscapes which has the potential, through …
Equivision Habitat: The Collective Dreamworks, Shixuan Zhou
Equivision Habitat: The Collective Dreamworks, Shixuan Zhou
Masters Theses
近年来,武汉这座充满活力的城市在经济快速增长的同时,也经历了重大的社会变革。城市的天际线不断扩大,新的商业和住宅区正在迅速涌现,吸引了更多的中产阶级家庭。作为武汉的长期居民和观察者,我看到了这种向中产阶级社会转变的诱惑力,但我也敏锐地意识到随之而来的社会成本。武汉向中产阶级社会的转变不仅体现在消费水平的提高和生活方式的转变上,更重要的是,体现在城市空间和社区角色的重新配置上。曾经为低收入居民提供住房的旧社区正在被改造成高端公寓和商业空间。虽然这种转变改善了城市的整体形象,但也导致了原住民的流离失所。这种深刻的变化凸显了中产阶级化的双刃剑性质。在这种背景下,我开始关注那些被这一进程边缘化的人的声音和需求。老年居民失去了熟悉的社区环境,年轻人尽管渴望加入新兴的中产阶级,但仍在为高昂的生活成本而苦苦挣扎。这种日益加剧的社会分层,让我深刻反思了城市更新的公平性和可持续性。本文提出了一种基于集体所有权和通过社区土地信托进行管理的社区模式。这种模式将土地所有权从个人转移到社区集体,确保开发活动优先考虑社区的长期福利,而不是短期的商业收益。其目的不仅是提供经济适用房,还旨在培养一个具有共同愿景的社区,探索在城市发展的同时维持社会多样性和包容性的方法。
Beyond Burial - Transforming Death: A New Ritual Of Farewell And The Ecological Return Of The Body To Nature, Chang Xie
Masters Theses
Burial and funeral culture have been shaped by human self-awareness and reflect an anthropocentric worldview. The modern funeral industry's multi-billion-dollar enterprise is based on the principle of protecting, sanitizing, and beautifying the corpse to promote the idea of human exceptionalism. However, this practice overlooks the natural process of decay and the potential beauty in returning the body to the earth, with which the body shares the same chemical basis as the earth itself. Modern science has provided Eco-friendly green burial methods, such as soil modification, ice burial, and water burial, making it suitable to contribute to natural ecology using human …
Liquid Border, Yingfan Jia
Liquid Border, Yingfan Jia
Masters Theses
A River is a mighty and constantly-evolving force, leaving behind an intricately designed and constantly changing system. Not just a river, the Rio Grande stretches all the way from Colorado before intersecting with the US-Mexico Border in southern Texas - a point where the powerful forces of nature now merge with a clearly-defined political boundary. The outcome of this is a unique ecological niche, which may often go unnoticed despite its distinctiveness.
Texas is famous for its farms and ranches, and the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas was once an agricultural hub. However, urbanization and the depletion of water …
Public-Ish, Aliah Werth
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 …
The Root Of Culture: Human Ritual And The Soils Of West Virginia, Aleece Mount
The Root Of Culture: Human Ritual And The Soils Of West Virginia, Aleece Mount
Masters Theses
The Cumberland Mountains of Southern West Virginia are home to mountaintop removal, with the Guyandotte River watershed exhibiting some of the most extreme examples. The strip-mining practices have removed fertile soil, altered water courses, deeply polluted the land, and stripped people of their wealth – prosperity in happiness and abundance of possessions and resources. This has resulted in some of the nation’s worst health, education, and economic conditions. The communities of this watershed live at the heart of the economic and political forces that undermine community and ecological well-being.
Southern West Virginia has a deep and continued history of living …
Beyond The Lines, Miranda-Max De Beer
Beyond The Lines, Miranda-Max De Beer
Masters Theses
Long-held frameworks and philosophies developed over human history have rarely accounted for dynamic flux or shifts between parallel states of being; they’ve ignored the glaring consequences humanity’s brief occupation of the Geologic Timeline will have on the planet. These beliefs have enabled societies to operate through life as if there was no tomorrow, (ab)using the Earth without considering those who eventually reap what’s sown. Beyond the Lines identifies manifestations of the mindset that restricts how we understand living systems and the world around us as so much of what exists in tandem with contemporary society does not adhere to the …
City As Cemetery, Siqiao Zhao
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. …
Making Pla(Y)Ces: Softening The City Through Play, Shivani Pinapotu
Making Pla(Y)Ces: Softening The City Through Play, Shivani Pinapotu
Masters Theses
Cities that grow naturally over time integrate spaces of gathering that allow for serendipitous happenstance. However, the cities we design today instruct and codify through intentional planning and design; they assign use, hardening specific function to place. Such strategies lead to spaces devoid of spirit, inculcating in city-dwellers to a sense of disconnect from the city.
In contrast to this, the places we make as children, express our intuitive, direct, and unselfconscious relationships with space and one other. These spaces embody softness through their malleability and adaptability, borrowing from the world around them and imbuing the ordinary with imagination. …
Between Memory And Invention An Interview With Nietq Sobejano Arquitectos, Luis Sacristán Murga
Between Memory And Invention An Interview With Nietq Sobejano Arquitectos, Luis Sacristán Murga
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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Going Dutch Duplication, Authencity And Reprogrammed Experience, Iris Mach
Going Dutch Duplication, Authencity And Reprogrammed Experience, Iris Mach
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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Million Donkey Hotel And Other Memories Of Stone, Michela Bassanelli
Million Donkey Hotel And Other Memories Of Stone, Michela Bassanelli
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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A Future Of Pilgrimage, Andy Lockyer
A Future Of Pilgrimage, Andy Lockyer
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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Alternate Hospitality A New Frontier, Tiziano Aglieri Rinella
Alternate Hospitality A New Frontier, Tiziano Aglieri Rinella
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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Bikini Berlin Becoming An Icon Of Post-War Reconstruction, Dionys Ottl
Bikini Berlin Becoming An Icon Of Post-War Reconstruction, Dionys Ottl
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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More Of Something Else Conjecture One-Thirty (Tu), Jeffry Burchard
More Of Something Else Conjecture One-Thirty (Tu), Jeffry Burchard
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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Postindustrial Spectacle Reconnecting Image And Function, Patrick Ruggiero, Jr.
Postindustrial Spectacle Reconnecting Image And Function, Patrick Ruggiero, Jr.
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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Cathedrals Of Consumerism Experiencing Corporate Interiors And Brands, Sylvia Leydecker
Cathedrals Of Consumerism Experiencing Corporate Interiors And Brands, Sylvia Leydecker
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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Approximations To A Working Space Around But Not Inside El Museo De Los Sures, Laura F. Gibellini
Approximations To A Working Space Around But Not Inside El Museo De Los Sures, Laura F. Gibellini
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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A Visual History Of Dining A Timeline, Eli Feldman
A Visual History Of Dining A Timeline, Eli Feldman
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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The Changing Roles Retail In The Experience Economy, Ann Petermans, Bie Plevoets, Koenraad Van Cleemopoel
The Changing Roles Retail In The Experience Economy, Ann Petermans, Bie Plevoets, Koenraad Van Cleemopoel
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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New Pasts, Old Experiences The Spectacle Of Authenticity At Cairo's Museum Of Agriculture, Samaa Elimam
New Pasts, Old Experiences The Spectacle Of Authenticity At Cairo's Museum Of Agriculture, Samaa Elimam
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
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