Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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A School with Room for Queerness
(2023-01-05)The thesis is an exploration of what is experienced in the learning sphere from a queer perspective. Traditional schools in Japan have followed a very regimented plan, with linear corridors leading into highly standardized ... -
A Shell of a Good Time: A Design Framework for Oyster Sanctuaries and Playful Parks
(2024-01-24)Oysters play a crucial role in maintaining healthy marine ecosystems through their ability to filter water and provide habitat for various species. The Billion Oyster Project, a New York-based initiative, has been working ... -
A Stadium Tower: Decongestion of congestion
(2021-05-27)STADIUM A stadium is a place where a flock of people get charged and discharged at a moment in time, before and after a game. To avoid congestion in the city, stadiums have been pushed away from the center and are located ... -
A Walk in the Grid
(2023-01-05)How could the design of a regional shopping center reconcile the loss of architectural scale in globalized brownfields? This thesis explores alternative arrangements of form and proportion in search of a new composition ... -
Adriatic Projects Revisited
(2022-06-08)The Adriatic Projects (1967-72) was a United Nations international exchange program in regional planning founded to transfer urban planning knowledge to Yugoslavia (1945-91). Established during the Cold War era in the ... -
Aesthetics of Extraction: Reconfiguring Images of Empire
(2021-05-19)The so-called “Company Paintings” or Kampani Kalam in Urdu and Hindi, developed in the Indian Subcontinent over the 18th and 19th centuries under the “patronage” of the East India Company as a result of British attempts ... -
After Bath: Crossing the Social Skin
(2022-02-02)Water is an immersive body, and bathing is a medium of not only physical but also psychical identification and connection, through the bodily proximity created between strangers. The thesis explores notions of body and ... -
Afterlife of the Grande Arche: Re-materializing Digital Artifacts
(2022-04-01)The thesis project envisions how architecture is being transformed and represented in a hyper-digital age. It is quite fascinating to me that today we have found numerous ways to digitally access and interact with architecture, ... -
Aggregate, Aggregation + Geotechnical Urbanism
(2021-05-18)Within the architectural engineering and construction industry we have developed diagrammatic representations and software translations of cultural patterns, extruded 2D cities, and built architecture of processed materials ... -
Aggregation of Allegories
(2024-01-24)In our lives, certain geometric spaces hold profound meaning. For instance, a room with a sloped floor instantly evokes cinematic or theatrical connotations. We instinctively adjust our orientation, distinguishing between ... -
Aging Within: A Catalog of Reinterpreted Traditional Courtyard Houses
(2021-05-21)This project is about challenging the traditional senior living community layout by building a system constructed with modular reinterpreted traditional courtyard houses to sustain a closely-knit senior living community. ... -
Alternative Rural Development in the Age of Internet: A Close Look at E-Commerce Village Typologies in Rural China
(2021-05-18)Taobao Village, a name created by Alibaba Group in 2009 to mark three Chinese villages heavily engaged in e-Commerce, has exceeded 5400 in number by 2020. The exponential growth of Taobao Village suggests that e-commerce ... -
An Analysis of Public Transportation and Residential Segregation
(2023-05-17)Segregation is a complex social phenomenon that occurs across various socio-spatial domains and operates on multiple levels. Past research indicates that segregated residential areas can lead to social and economic exclusion. ... -
An Attempt to Approach a Ceiling
(2021-05-27)“You sleep… with your eyes wide open. You count and you organize the cracks in the ceiling. The conjunction of shadows and stains, and the variation of adjustment and orientation of your gaze, produce effortlessly, slowly, ... -
An Attempt to Approach A Void, or Georges Perec, Cause Commune, and the Infraordinary
(2021-05-19)In February 1973, Jean Duvignaud, Paul Virilio, and Georges Perec introduced the infraordinary in the fifth issue of their small journal, Cause commune. The infraordinary subsequently became attributed mostly to Georges ... -
An Intrinsic Model for a Non-neutral, Plural National School
(2023-01-05)When Malaysia gained independence from the British in 1957, it took on a national architectural identity that was rooted in the language and neutrality of tropical modernism, which was deemed appropriate for the multi-ethnic ... -
An Invitation to Walk within Walls: A Salt Shed
(2023-05-24)Across New York City lie mountains of road salt brought to its shores from mines as far as Tarapacá, Chile. These migrant minerals spend most of their days in sheds across the five boroughs until they are dispersed atop ... -
Anticipatory Architecture
(2022-04-01)Contemporary architects are often excluded from the project of the city. Handed a plot of land and predetermined boundary conditions, architects lack the agency to shape the future development of the city. However, before ... -
Apartment Number:N/A
(2021-05-24)“The modern apartment, or that which is referred to as a studio or one-room apartment, is the material realization of a tendency toward cell formation, which can be recognized as the architectural and topological analogue ... -
Aqua Firma/Incognita/Communi
(2021-05-19)This thesis drifts into the ocean’s dark, turbulent depths to envision how urbanized seas erode landed geologics. Modernity has figured the ocean as an unknowable expanse opposed to land yet suffuse with extractable ...