Building Technology Program Theses: Recent submissions
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From Waste to Structure: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Circular Design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)The design-to-construction process of buildings predominantly follows a top-down linear workflow, where a design is drawn and subsequently refined to determine the required materials and components. This approach assumes ... -
Automated Engineering Design for Reusable Concrete Building Structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)Concrete contributes to 8% of global CO2 emission through reinforced concrete (RC) structural system. Unlike steel and timber structures, RC components are rarely reused due to the inseparable phase between concrete and ... -
In Tension: Computational exploration of the design space of tensile network structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)Cable and rope net structures are lightweight tensile systems and generally cannot resist compression or bending. Tensile network structures are often used to span long distances without intermediate supports and have ...