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  • Back To Your Senses 
    Wansten, Jamie (2012-05-17)
    When asked "What are the essential items you cannot live without?"many people would name their I-pods, computers, or their car. For many, the four essential items that every human needs in order to live; air, food, water, ...
  • Battling A Parallel Pandemic: An Evaluation of Sustainable System-Level Nursing Support in Response To COVID-19 
    Gifford, Sarah (2022-01-06)
    The COVID-19 pandemic has created many unique challenges for frontline nurses including psychological distress, trauma, and uncertainty. COVID-19 has also created equally challenging situations for healthcare systems as ...
  • A Beautiful Affliction: Tracing the Role of Mentally Ill Artists in Reducing the Negative Stigma of Mental Illness 
    Hoffman, Katherine (2015-05-11)
    This thesis examines the concept of mentally ill individuals as historically marginalized “Others” in our society. The examination begins in the 19th century and traces primary sources of mentally ill artists and writers’ ...
  • Being a Charlatan 
    Ledesma, Enrique (2017-06-06)
    Like all great films, architecture has the capacity to tell stories. Stories which ask us to move both physically and psychologically in a orchestrated film composed and directed by the architect. This implies an important ...
  • Belle Isle Capstone: An Academic Exercise on Sustainability 
    Jones, Donzetta; Krystyniak, J. Paul; Bihun, Matthew (2017-10-27)
    This Capstone Project proposes a strategy for reopening Belle Isle Aquarium with the goal of creating both an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable facility and public space, Belle Isle.
  • Between: Life, Architecture, Landscape, Experience 
    Bingham, Allison Quinn (2015-01-22)
    Experience is actual participation in something or the direct contact with something. The architecture and landscape around us creates an experience in our everyday life. We have an interaction with architecture or ...
  • Between Wandering and Residing 
    Da Via, Carrie (2012-05-17)
    What does it mean to be human? People are truly incredible creatures, capable of learning, communicating, growing, healing, designing, and most basically and beautifully, living. According to Martin Heidegger, the human’s ...
  • Beyond Shelters 
    Mohammad, Hanen (2023-05-10)
    This thesis explores the living conditions in “temporary” settlements established in response to the Syrian conflict. Specifically, the study will focus on three camps to better understand the challenges and opportunities in ...
  • Beyond Surface Parking 
    Campbell, Dakota (2023-04-27)
    Using the post-positivist and perceptual frameworks, this thesis aims to confront the cumulative issues derived from surface parking on the American cityscape. These issues include water, air, and ground pollution, lack ...
  • The Biophilic Neighborhood 
    Stockard, Jahlil (2023-05-09)
    Detroit’s affordable housing issues are mainly centered around availability. With the excessive amount of vacancy, the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood is a top candidate for redevelopment. This thesis explores ...
  • Bio-Triz: The combination between Biomimicry and Triz 
    Hu, Mingming (2014-11-19)
  • Blair's Rhetoric In Relation To Eighteenth Century Aesthetics 
    Babel, Simon Edward (2012-05-18)
    Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres is a celebrated work which belongs to the realm of rhetoric. It was used widely as a guide and text in rhetorical study and intellectual discipline during the nineteenth ...
  • Bleeding Heart Design: Towards an Altruistic Design Process 
    Willis, Rebecca (2012-11-30)
    ...The pursuit of happiness is the catalyst of the majority of human actions, yet crime rates and compassionless actions are astronomical. For some, malicious behavior lines the path of their pursuit to happiness... Criminal ...
  • [Block]ing Out: Rethinking the Void 
    Gross, Sean (2012-05-24)
    Alleys. A network that we have tired to hide in our urban environments is re-thought. The residual space between structures in urban environments goes largely unnoticed, yet consumes a large area of space. This thesis ...
  • Blurred Spaces 
    Clark, Rachel (2012-05-17)
    A city is composed of layers. Each layer is apart of history and is important to the growth of the city. The layers create the characteristics of the city. This investigation explores the notion of compiling the layers and ...
  • BodyMindSpirit: Mediating the Meta-Physical Transition 
    Krupitzer, Craig (2012-05-17)
    This is an investigation that will look at how architecture mediates the body. Also, it will explore the mediation between the building and its site and how the program spaces are mediated to each other. It will explore ...
  • Bridging Safety, Security and the Community 
    Flippo, Andrew (2012-05-17)
    Security and the gradually growing need for a feeling of safety is nothing that cannot be traced throughout history, however it seems that traditional and modern systems have been achieved through the implementation of ...
  • Bridging the Gap 
    Kelderhouse, Patrick (2012-05-17)
    I am proposing to address the connection/collision of University of Detroit Mercy and the surrounding community of Harmony Village. I am attempting to link two incompatible sites and make them work as one. Creating this ...
  • Bridging the Gap Between Hospital and Home 
    Begin, Nathalie (2020-09-15)
    This thesis project began with an investigation of the current healthcare industry and healing design practices. A gap exists in the current healthcare industry between hospital and home. This gap forces people to rush ...
  • A Brief Moment 
    Schildgen, Duncan (2020-09-10)
    The purpose of this thesis is to examine the unique position that the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture is in at its current moment in history. Framing the examination around the four core elements that ...

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