Browsing GSD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Collected Memory
(2023-01-05)This is a project of the present, projecting the past. Cities grow, adapt, die and resurge. Over the course of their evolution, they become possessors of juxtaposing narratives — those stemming from privileged voices ... -
Commoning the Seed: Ritual and Preservation as Practice for the Modern Monastery
(2021-01-20)Characterized by strict organizations of time, rules, and divisions of space, the monastery has provided the ideal set of conditions for early religious practice. While monastic practice has been categorized as increasingly ... -
Composing Soundscapes for Social Integration: Psychogeography of Bhutanese refugee elders in Worcester, Massachusetts
(2021-05-18)Sound can transcend the boundaries of time and space. This thesis leverages the potential of sound to capture a sense of place and reinterpret space by transplanting it to new environments. Working with the Bhutanese ... -
Controlling Wind Pressure Around Buildings: Using Automated Multi-Angle Ventilation Louvers for Higher Natural Ventilation Potential
(2021-05-18)Natural ventilation (NV) is an effective means of reducing building energy consumption and enhancing indoor air quality (IAQ) by conveying outdoor air into space. Recently, rising concern of climate change and the COVID-19 ... -
Counterpoints to Cultural Colonialism
(2022-04-01)Counterpoints to Cultural Colonialism Formal notions of religion, education, and health were weapons against indigenous populations. The church, school, and hospital, as mechanisms of institutional control, place architecture ... -
Country Parks from Hong Kong to Shanghai: Hierarchical Landscape as Economic Engines
(2022-06-08)The past decade has seen a rise in the number of country parks in Mainland China, which are described as an “import” of those in Hong Kong. However, based on their different topographies (mountains vs. fields), the country ... -
CRIPPING ARCHITECTURE
(2021-05-27)A study in critical heterogeneity. Cripping Architecture argues that what we think of as “universal design” - a least-common-denominator model - does not and cannot produce fully equitable architecture on its own. ... -
Croche-Matic – building a robot for crocheting 3D spherical form
(2022-06-08)Crochet is a textile craft that has existed since it evolved out of the practice of nuns-laces during the Great Irish Famine. Unlike other textile crafts such as knitting it has almost entirely avoided mechanization and ... -
Crossing Paths: Strategies for the Gowanus Basin
(2021-06-02)Over the past few centuries, the Gowanus has transformed from natural to pastoral to industrial to post-industrial. Its history is tied to the development of Brooklyn. Once a tidal inlet with orchards and mills, it ... -
Cultivating the Renewal of Armenia's Housing Supply
(2022-05-18)The Republic of Armenia’s inadequate and deteriorating housing stock is among the nation’s most pressing challenges. With resources limited, how can policymakers and private developers help overcome this crisis, expanding ... -
DataHub: Data Centers for Cities and People
(2021-01-21)This thesis looks at how to design data centers for the urban context in a way that benefits cities and the people who live in them. COVID-19 has only reinforced the sentiment that our physical realm will require more and ... -
De Materia Perspectiva
(2021-05-24)“I inscribe a quadrangle ... which is considered to be an open window through which I see,” the artist and architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote in his 1425 treatise on perspective. This description surely reminds us of ... -
Dear GSD
(2021-05-18)My motivation for writing this thesis is my passion for using front-end design techniques to construct social justice in the digital domain and find solutions for particular design problems. This thesis proposes a digital ... -
Decision-Making Support in Early Design Stage for High Performance Naturally Ventilated Buildings
(2018-03-15)While a lack of design decision-making support for natural ventilation evaluation in the early stage is noticeable, the interest in high performance naturally ventilated buildings has been rapidly growing in recent years. ... -
Deconstructing a Landscape Out-of-Place: the Afterlife of Rural Hollowing
(2022-10-13)This thesis explores declining villages in the process towards rural hollowing. Rural hollowing, this phenomenon exhibits increasingly in depopulating rural settlements, results from fading infrastructural services, ... -
DeepGreen: Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Negative Algae Biocomposites
(2023-09-19)As populations rise, the global building stock is predicted to double in floor area in the next 40 years. As a result, the embodied carbon footprint of the construction industry, which the UN has estimated to be 11% of ... -
Degendering Suburbia: Speculations on a New Dream
(2023-01-05)Made specifically for the white American nuclear family, the 1950s suburban tract house embeds gendered notions of space and excludes anyone not representative of the mold. The midcentury American dream was spatialized in ... -
Design in the Convívio: Making Space for Landscape in Self-Built Communities
(2021-05-19)This thesis examines the roles in which a landscape architect can operate respectfully within dense, self-constructed communities. Piloting a design process within the context of the “convívio” -- a socially rich but ... -
Design Practice / Practice design
(2024-02-28)The strategy, mission, and organization of architecture firms – here loosely defined as organizations that produce designs – have profound impacts on the outcome of the built environment. Because contemporary building ... -
Designing Green Walls: An Early-Design Framework to Estimate the Cooling Impact of Indirect Green Walls on Buildings in Six Different Climates
(2018-03-20)Green walls are a component of urban green infrastructure and if designed properly, require only moderate human intervention and maintenance during their lifespans (Cameron, Taylor, & Emmett, 2014). The benefits of green ...