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The living workplace : a conscious work environment for a small publishing company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
This thesis is about the oneness of working and living, and about the making of workplaces that support and encourage the idea that one's work can be an integral part of one's life. The opening position is that there is a ...
Above reproach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
As global populations continue toward higher levels of urban densification, sprawl has caused the United States to reach an un-sustainability low level of population density. The past six decades of sub-urbanization have ...
Variety and industrial production : the case of housing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
Industrial processes have addressed with various degrees of success the question of housing production. If assembly-line methods have proven their efficiency in the production and distribution of low-cost housing, they ...
A development strategy and evaluation : Constitution Avenue site in Charlestown
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Learning to collaborate : robots building together
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Since robots were first invented, robotic assembly has been an important area of research in both academic institutions and industry settings. The standard industry approach to robotic assembly lines utilizes fixed robotic ...
A technique for creating new visual phenomena
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
This paper outlines a technique for creating new visual phenomena by proposing a systematic method of using existing media in novel manners. The technique involve s the random and purposeful manipulation of person-media ...
Edens islands rooms : the project of the urban interior
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The privately owned public interior, defined here as an enclosed urban space owned by a private entity, has been a recurrent character of many 20th century liberal cities. It has today found an epitome in the mega-structural ...
Interpreting structure through intuition : a light rail campus crossing in Seattle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
Common to all people is some degree of intuition into aspects of the natural physical laws by which we are bound to The earth. To a large degree This intuitive sensitivity is grounded in our visual registration of the ...
Daily life support : building a collective neighborhood
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Do the house forms and residential neighborhoods commonly found in the U.S. accommodate the present needs and lifestyles of the people who live in them? The single-family detached house and multi-family units like the ...
Alternative housing designs for changing life-styles in Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
The purpose of this thesis is to determine the factors affecting the transformation of user requirements for a single family detached house by analyzing changing technology and life-styles of the traditional and modern ...