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Deleveraging domesticity : incremental design forays on middle income housing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Housing today has little do with architecture. Design is a currency of services, while housing today is intensively packaged as a consumer good. It is packaged with land as speculative real-estate, and bundled abstractly ...
Low-income housing : alternative strategies for building construction and project control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
Housing low-income groups, who cannot afford even the most minimal shelter, remains a dominant issue in most developing countries. However, all the solutions advanced so far depend on large investments, either by the ...
Precarious luxury
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Due to the market collapse prompting more secure investments and increasing government regulation and incentives to integrate low income units into luxury residential developments, this thesis seeks to integrate two allergic ...
Taipei apartment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
To accommodate the rapid modernization and urbanization between 1960s and 1980s, a large number of mid-rise apartments has been built in Taipei. Today, these poorly designed apartments represent about 40 percent of the ...
The project for the historic center of Genoa : toward the integration of urban planning and design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
A current concern in planning and architecture is the apparent inability of either profession to provide quality urban environments. Frequently the problem is attributed to the gap that exists between the plan and planning ...
Landscape and form : observation and transformation of farm form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)
This thesis is an exploration of the collective, that of farm form. The form of a collective organization is of a multiplicity of relationships, rich in information and understandable. It is an interactive coming together ...
Drosscape and the city : the case of Eleonas in Athens
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis addresses design strategies for the future development of drosscapes in urban regions and their relation with the city at large, having as an example the district of Eleonas in Athens, Greece. It provides answers ...
Adaptable architecture : a computational exploration into responsive design systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Based on the fact that architecture is, among other things, the crystallization of a mediation among design intentions (function), meaning and contextual constraints (performance), we as designers are obligated to produce ...
Dancecity :: culturestudio
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
dance : movement :: city : life. As dance is characterized by movement, the city is characterized by life. As dance is dependent on movement, the city is dependent on life. [edit] dance : city :: movement : life Dance : ...
DeadZone : inhabiting the hypoxic system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Hypoxia: a phenomenon that occurs in aquatic environments as dissolved oxygen is reduced in concentration to a point where it becomes detrimental to organisms living in the system. Since the mid 20th century, oceanographers ...