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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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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
No abstract provided.
Going Dutch Duplication, Authencity And Reprogrammed Experience, Iris Mach
Going Dutch Duplication, Authencity And Reprogrammed Experience, Iris Mach
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
Million Donkey Hotel And Other Memories Of Stone, Michela Bassanelli
Million Donkey Hotel And Other Memories Of Stone, Michela Bassanelli
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
A Future Of Pilgrimage, Andy Lockyer
A Future Of Pilgrimage, Andy Lockyer
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
Alternate Hospitality A New Frontier, Tiziano Aglieri Rinella
Alternate Hospitality A New Frontier, Tiziano Aglieri Rinella
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
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
No abstract provided.
More Of Something Else Conjecture One-Thirty (Tu), Jeffry Burchard
More Of Something Else Conjecture One-Thirty (Tu), Jeffry Burchard
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
Postindustrial Spectacle Reconnecting Image And Function, Patrick Ruggiero, Jr.
Postindustrial Spectacle Reconnecting Image And Function, Patrick Ruggiero, Jr.
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
Cathedrals Of Consumerism Experiencing Corporate Interiors And Brands, Sylvia Leydecker
Cathedrals Of Consumerism Experiencing Corporate Interiors And Brands, Sylvia Leydecker
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
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
No abstract provided.
A Visual History Of Dining A Timeline, Eli Feldman
A Visual History Of Dining A Timeline, Eli Feldman
IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse
No abstract provided.
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
No abstract provided.
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
No abstract provided.