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Circulation Structured
(Virginia Tech, 2010-08-30)
Circulation is the way by which people move and interact with a piece of architecture. In public buildings, such as transportation terminals, it is crucial to have a floor plan that allows easy flow of pedestrian traffic. ...
The Rebirth of A Nation: An Embassy Proposal for the Republic of South Africa in Washington, DC
(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-14)
In both South Africa and the United States, the occurrence of certain political and social events have affected the cultural structure of the African society. As the patterns of community have been lost over time, due to ...
Green Building Design 300H Street NE, Washington DC
(Virginia Tech, 2009-12-17)
How to understand the concept of GREEN in an architectural perspective is the aim of my thesis. Aside from the basic concepts of sustainable building design, such as climate responsive layout, natural systems from daylight ...
Bridging the gap
(Virginia Tech, 2004-06-21)
The urban realm is a collage of ruin, artifact, and modern invention. Whole pieces and fragments linger untouched or prosthetized onto new constructions, creating a landscape of monsters. These creatures, beautiful or ...
Children's Hospice Care
(Virginia Tech, 2016-07-11)
With advancements in medical technology, the mechanics of dying and death has changed significantly. Centuries ago, people mostly died of infectious diseases. From the time they were diagnosed, to the time of their death ...
The Anamorphic Library
(Virginia Tech, 2016-06-30)
This thesis examines the idea of perspective, specifically anamorphic perspective, and how anamorphosis can be applied to architecture. Anamorphosis is a distorted image that appears regular only from a certain point. ...
The Duality of the Line
(Virginia Tech, 2015-06-01)
Everything in the universe has an opposite, and exists in complete harmony. Without one, we would not experience the other. It is this duality of experiences, perspectives and actions that I seek to study in this thesis. ...
Motion, Space and Sound
(Virginia Tech, 2017-01-11)
As part of our daily routines, we continually move from one space to another. The existing conditions of the spaces we move through often impact the way we experience architecture. Whether we transition between spaces ...
Well-Tempered Building: Michelangelo's full-scale template drawings at San Lorenzo
(Virginia Tech, 2014-02-18)
This work questions the present migration toward prescriptive building procedures through a micro-historical reading of Michelangelo's use of architectural template drawings. Examining the artist's ten surviving paper ...
Museum of Skin Instruments
(Virginia Tech, 2005-09-16)
Skin is a very broad topic that allows discovering and exploring all the possibilities of what skin can be. Furthermore, skin is much known for its flexibility that can shape and wrap almost every object we can think of. ...