Energy consumption for building thermoregulation is a major contributor to the environmental impact of our built environment. Building envelope systems that actively tune their heat transfer rate in response to environmental ...

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 ...

The pregnancy portrait underlines the position of female reproductive bodies within a cultural moment, creating identity, agency, and capital. Social and cinematic mediums animate the pregnancy portrait, showing the pregnant ...

Our society is transforming from a society of supervision which has persisted for a long time, to a controlled society. A controlled society is a softer, more adjustable, but also more irresistible social operation form. ...

How do we Build consciousness? This thesis positions automatic attention, the cognitive method of our unconscious, as the vital mechanism within which architects can construct awareness for non-architects. If it is true ...

Heliomorph is an investigation in testing the feedback loop of using solar geometry for architecture’s ability to react, transform, and inform existing and new architecture. Heavily influenced by the work Ralph Knowles ...

The Department of Motor Vehicles is a state agency full of contradictions: originally established for the purpose of abating the public nuisance of speeding drivers, the agency is now imprinted upon the cultural imaginary ...

A top-down design process using projection lines on a flattened surface has been a dominant design technique for us, as we commonly witness in our daily lives of studios and practices or in written disciplines. However, ...

When imagining a discourse around Black domesticity, it is essential to create new parameters, or for that matter, no parameters at all, no longer relying only on colonial Anglo-Saxon methods telling how to appropriate or ...

In 1966, Kenzo Tange devised a powerful apparatus of disseminating mass media, Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Center. A concrete innovation and an urban fragment, the Yamanashi Building applied the joint-core system that ...