Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Multiscale Thermal Design for Buildings
(2016-11-01)This dissertation investigates the principles, processes, and strategies to develop multiscale material systems for buildings that interact with heat in novel ways. The overall theoretical framework consists of (1) utilizing ... -
MUNDANE AMBIGUITY: MAKING PUBLIC REALM WITH BALLAST WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
(2022-05-18)This thesis proposes landscape infrastructure as the agency for managing ballast water exchange, conducting mass recycling of waste materials, and creating new public realms. It asks if infrastructure could inform spatial ... -
Naming Expeditor: Reimagining Institutional Naming System at Harvard
(2023-06-14)The "Naming Expeditor" project aims to demystify the institutional process and principles of naming, including denaming and renaming, at Harvard University. Through research on historical archives and contemporary testimonies, ... -
National Garden for Subterranean Heritage: A Repository for Human/Earthly Matter
(2022-05-18)The National Garden for Subterranean Heritage reconceptualizes the botanical National Garden of Athens, Greece, as a networked repository for human/earthly stories. Critiquing colonial practices of transplantations and ... -
Nature State: Incentivized Forests in Southern Ontario
(2021-02-09)Nature State: Incentivized Forests in Southern Ontario investigates the rapid growth of voluntary private land conservation efforts in suburban and rural Ontario, focusing on the rise of incentivized management from the ... -
Near-term environmental transition: A case study of Ulsan City
(2023-09-19)The focus of this study is Ulsan City, one of South Korea's largest hydrogen producers and consumers, and its collaboration with local industries to generate both grey and blue hydrogen as alternative energy source to ... -
Nonlinear Fabrication: A Data-Driven Framework for Evaluating and Calibrating the Toolpath Design of 3D Printing Cementitious Materials
(2023-10-25)Clay, just like other natural, paste-like materials, offers a potential reduction in the embodied CO2 that the production of buildings using conventional materials emits, yet its large tolerances during printing remain an ... -
“Northing Must be Fastened to the Ground”: Mobile Informal Work in Indian Cities
(2023-05-17)This thesis investigates how the architecture of regulation addressing street vendors’ livelihood protection in India relies on either enforcing mobility or suspending it. It proposes that narratives of spatiality must ... -
Not Quite Uncertain & Likely Imprecise
(2023-05-22)Empress Market was inaugurated in 1889 on top of a former British mass execution ground: a calculated obfuscation of colonial violence. In post-British Karachi, the market spontaneously burst and haphazardly expanded, ... -
Of Two Minds: Excavating the Split Estate
(2021-05-18)The split estate is a political-legal framework in the United States that severs surface property from subsurface. This effectively duplicates available property in the United States and establishes a palimpsest of ownership ... -
Of Unfrozen Waters
(2022-05-18)Of Unfrozen Waters adaptation for the deep thaw Retreating sea ice and coastlines are resulting in habitat loss for human and non-human species. A deep investigation into the flux of Arctic materials reveals a need for ... -
Oil and Leisure: Narrative Landforms for Curaçao
(2023-05-19)‘Like Oil and Leisure’ is a reimagining of Curaçao’s central harbor and beating heart, Schottegat. This port is home to the now-retired Refinery Isla, leaving an enormous economic and social gap that the refinery has filled ... -
Omnipresence: Machine Vision in the Adversarial City
(2024-05-16)This work follows the trail of Omnipresence, a mobile program of public safety lighting in New York City. Unpacking its historical and design precedents, it argues that Omnipresence is just the latest component of an urban ... -
On the mathematics of Memetics
(2022-06-08)As technology, embeds itself in almost every facet of our society, new rules of interacting and signalling emerge, specifically in the case of mass communication. These new imitated non-genetic behaviours that are called ... -
On Vision: The Science and Cultural History of Spatial Perception and Imagination
(2021-05-20)This thesis investigates the relationship between evolving modes of visual perception and the space of architecture. The design of architecture is intimately linked to the way space is imagined to be seen, and thus to the ... -
Open City: Applying Participatory Planning Theory to Open Data Initiatives
(2023-05-17)Open data initiatives are nearly a decade old and are purported to foster government transparency, public accessibility, and civic engagement; the open data portal is the material expression of these initiatives and is the ... -
"Our History is our Resource": Historic Narrative as Urban Planning Strategy in Chicago's Pullman Neighborhood
(2023-05-17)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ways that site and neighborhood history can potentially inform material neighborhood development in the present. The investigation focused on Pullman, a historic area on the ... -
Our Village: a Queer Paradise in the 1980s
(2021-05-25)A drag queen is as American Dream as a suburban house surrounded by a white picket fence. Drag performance is more than entertainment in a night club: it is a way of expressing, dreaming, commenting, and escaping the ... -
Outside-In: A Hybrid Domestic Typology
(2024-01-24)With the increasing phenomenon of global migration and cultural diffusion today, fundamental questions of integration and assimilation remain an ongoing theme in the United States. Immigration has emerged as a very decisive, ... -
Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum as Evolution Lab
(2021-05-19)This thesis explores the role of evolutionary biology in landscape architecture, examining designed landscapes as potential drivers for species evolution. It argues that any landscape design makes direct and immediate ...