Throughout the last century, the popularization of the automobile and development of roads and highways has changed the way we live, and how cities develop. Bridges, aqueducts, and power plants had comparable impact in ...

"Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the art of ...

The integrated solar roof collector system can bring the house year-round energy saving benefit. In heating season, part of the space heating and preheating domestic hot water demand can be met by this integrated system. ...

This thesis explores the variety of spatial conditions that can be created with simple planar elements by modulating light. The result is an architectural space in which children better comprehend natural phenomena through ...

How can architecture encourage and intensify a limited period of life? I examine this by composing an austere cell for living, focused on the interaction of materials, natural light, and human movement through specific ...

Located in rural Mount Laurel, Virgina, on the tobacco farm my mother was raised, this house grew from the use of memories as a design tool: my childhood memories not to mimic, rebuild, or remake, but to create new ...

Every architecure is being with life-force such as a plant who lives on the photosynthesis that need carbon dioxide + water + light energy, and provide oxygen in day time. On the contrary, Plants need oxygen and release ...

This thesis explores the relationship between the "constructed" (built) environment and the natural environment. What defines such a relationship and can the relationship be formulated? Surely a successful union is much ...

The project is about public and private interaction and the experience of the streetscape. It questions how to use the streets in our daily life. How it becomes part of our living space? The space, which is in between ...

This thesis is concerned with architecture and its changes through four seasons. It is about drawing new images of a building in different seasons. Like trees change their leaves in seasons and like people change their ...