Lee, Arnold Ildoo2016-06-292016-06-292016-06-28vt_gsexam:8323http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71661Although living in the city can provide many benefits, it also provides many issues as well. Housing costs are constantly increasing, both physical and mental spaces are sacrificed, and our innate connection to nature is severed. These produce profoundly damaging effects on the human psyche and cause people to migrate from the urban to the suburban and rural areas. The solution is to design more efficient urban buildings that can actively adapt to its inhabitants' programmatic needs and utilizes wood, specifically cross-laminated timber, as its main material to reconnect with nature.ETDIn CopyrightAdaptiveArchitectureCLTNew York CityThesis