Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Sanctuary State: California's Cowscape in Transition
(2023-05-17)Sanctuary State, set in an idealized future in which cows are not exploited for meat or dairy, transforms an 800-acre feedlot into a sanctuary, a healing site for cows. Feedlots, common in California’s San Joaquin Valley, ... -
Sea Level Rise and Housing Affordability in Small Coastal Communities: A Case Study in Maine
(2022-05-18)Significant portions of the United States’ coastal housing stock are vulnerable to inundation in coming decades. This will cause a direct loss of housing, result in higher prices for homes that are not vulnerable to flooding, ... -
Shifting Scales of Urban Transformation: The emergence of the Marmara Urban Region between 1990 and 2015
(2016-05-17)Provincial borders and metropolitan theories are insufficient to explain the scale and dynamics of İstanbul’s contemporary urban development. The mega projects of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) such as the İzmit ... -
Simulation? Machine Learning? Simulation X Machine Learning?: A decision system for research integrating building physic simulation and machine learning methods in the early design stage
(2022-06-08)Researchers have leveraged machine learning technologies and physics-based simulation in predicting daylight and other factors relevant to building energy consumption. However, this is still an emerging research area with ... -
Single Non-family Home
(2022-05-24)Travel is inherent to the development of our social instincts, used as a means to raise our sensitivities to unfamiliar contexts and peoples. The act of travel itself had architectural impositions during one’s journey. ... -
SocioLens: Potentials and challenges of large-scale social media data to understand human behavior in cities
(2023-10-25)Urban scholars can now investigate complex phenomena on a larger scale and with lower costs, thanks to the advancements in big data collection and analyses. Among these data sources, social media data has been argued to ... -
Space V: A Space-Vending System for Future Wellbeing in the City
(2023-01-05)The project investigates the commodification of space through constructing the narrative and user experience of a space-vending urban destination for everyday wellbeing. It imagines a near-future lifestyle where people ... -
Spatial Distribution of Urban Territories at a Regional Scale: Modeling the Changjiang Delta’s Urban Network
(2016-05-18)The formation of ‘Urban Networks’ has become a wide-spread phenomenon around the world. In the study of metropolitan regions, there are competing or diverging views about management and control of environmental and land-use ... -
Spatial Interfaces: An Architectural Recontextualization
(2024-01-24)This thesis proposes a series of speculative spatial interactions leveraging the input modality of gestures, the medium of mixed reality, and paradigms from architectural design. It is situated at a time when the disciplinary ... -
Spatial Opportunities for Self-Produced Environments
(2021-05-17)Physical planning has contributed to perpetuating spatial inequality in Caracas, Venezuela, a dynamic that has many parallelisms with other processes that result in social and economic inequalities in Latin America. The ... -
Spatial Paradigm of Sentiment
(2023-05-22)How space brings emotional impacts? This question is often answered in ambiguous way. “Vast space creates loneliness and small, cozy space is much more acceptable for human’s psychological well-being”, empirically described ... -
Spherical deployable shield for robot arm
(2021-05-18)This thesis focuses on the construction of deployable shields for robot arms in extraterrestrial situations that protect them from possible threats by minimizing the area of the robot's end-effector that is exposed to ... -
Stacked Daydreams: Ceiling-scape for the Neglected (Hong Kong Factory Adaptive-Reuse for Elderly Care)
(2021-01-20)This thesis operates at the intersection of three domains of neglect: 1. In the realm of building elements, the ceiling is often considered as an afterthought in the design process. 2. Across building types, the vertical ... -
Stacking Menageries: Densifying Toronto's Yellowbelt
(2023-05-24)What is indifference if not the desire to find oneself among the collective? What builds a community if not the need to connect across islands? The future of collective housing must first forget about collectivity, for ... -
Staying Put: Plans for Aging Suburbia
(2023-06-27)Few aspects of the human experience are more universal than the experience of aging, but more people are reaching old age than ever. For the first time in history, people over the age of 65 outnumber those under 5. Between ... -
Sticking Together: Community-Controlled Housing in New York City
(2022-05-18)In New York City, ever-increasing housing costs and threats of displacement have led to a renewed interest in community-controlled housing—housing where community members are involved in the structuring, ownership, and ... -
Stir-Fry Urbanism: Geography of Chinese Restaurants and the Spatial Politics of Race and Iden-tity in Boston’s Urban Development 1880 – 2020
(2022-06-08)If you think of McDonald's as the icon of American food, America might taste more like General Tso Chicken than a Cheeseburger. There are currently over 45,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., more than all the McDonald's, ... -
Street Choreography
(2022-05-18)Street Choreography elevates the dynamic qualities of the city, designing through sequence, time, and experience. The street is highly regulated, often defined by its boundaries and limitations rather than its movements ... -
Subject-Object Ambivalence: An Archival Institution
(2021-01-20)The project of Subject-Object Ambivalence is to design a cultural institution which privileges, and spatializes, Blackness. In this new vision of cultural space, individuals occupy both the subject and object positions. ... -
Suburban Exaptation: Densification Without Demolition
(2023-05-23)Wood framing, widely available and easy to assemble, has come to embody the ideal of a modular architectural system but not the image. Despite this inherent ability to enable change, its rigid implementation through the ...