This thesis seeks to explore and project alternative mediums to an end product with new techniques, technology, and tools that are altering current modes and methods within the design process. Digital technology does not ...

A new model of sustainable housing is called for by the growing number of natural disasters. Current disaster relief housing fails to meet sustainable standards and does not consider the personal impacts of natural disasters ...

The Team developed three implementation proposals that could assist the Jefferson Chalmers and Yorkshire Woods neighborhood, as well as other, similar neighborhoods in the city.

The Core City neighborhood, like many other neighborhoods in Detroit, is characterized by a vast number of single-family houses. However, many of these houses were destroyed during the 1967 Detroit riots, which left numerous ...

William McDonough brought up in his book, Cradle to Cradle the idea to design for the “safety and well being of all children of all species for all time.” In the book, McDonough and his co-author, Michael Braungart, focus ...

This investigation focused on the known relationship between fear and fortification, with fortification known as the instinctual response to a fear, either known or unknown. When examining the relationship that fear and ...

If you think about it, we may never understand a space by the intentions to which it is initially designed. We can read about what we are supposed to feel, or not feel. We can assume where we are supposed to look. And we ...

This book explicitly contains and displays nine months of conversations, making, doing, playing, thinking, design and process. It also implicitly displays four years of undergraduate exploration as well as twenty three ...

Certain branches of scientific literary criticism have not advanced significantly in some two thousand years since Aristotle wrote his Poetics. Consequently, one result of the abundant critical activity carried on during ...