What is place? Place is how one comes to experience or inhabit a particular location or even how a culture begins to associate a place with a particular concept or idea. It can be something as simple as a sandbox that a ...

Open-cell metal foam is a class of modern porous media that possesses high thermal conductivity, large accessible surface area per unit volume and high porosities (often greater than 90%). The high porosity means very low ...

Objects of Architectural Potentials is less interested in the production of dynamic, fluid, complex shapes or forms, than it is in discovering dynamic, fluid, complex architectural, design processes. By reframing our ...

The world in which we live provides a limiting range of experiences for our individual sensory needs as well as our social interactions as a community. Architecture has created a disconnection between humans and nature by ...

The American urban landscape has been shifting for the past century. Shifting away from the public and social life to a private one, a life behind closed doors. Is our society to blame for this, the culture itself, or ...

The intention of this thesis is to investigate space as the relationship between architecture, the body and consciousness. With the advent of anti-psychotic medication and General Hospital mental wards constructed in the ...

Whether we realize it or not, humans have always been attracted to water. The water’s edge has had a physical, mental as well as emotional connection to people in ways that affect the human mind consciously and subconsciously. ...

At some point in time someone, some group, or some thing decided that change ought to appen. Typically these [somes] do not, or did not, take into consideration the future consequences of these changes, and left lasting ...