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  • Dissolving Boundaries: a catalytic approach to ameliorate Belfast, Northern Ireland 
    Harrison, Jessica (2012-05-17)
    This thesis is aimed to develop a large scale program, for a place whose essence is inherently filled with a schism of political and religious turmoil, and provide an opportunity for amelioration and conciliation. The ...
  • [DIS]connection/[RE]connection 
    Carpenter, Bryan (2012-05-17)
    This study looks at how people or places become disconnected over time and the carious reasons for such an action. As the surrounding contexts change, places and/or people lose their relationships with their adjacent people ...
  • Digital playhouse: thresholds of visual and tactile bodies 
    Seyferth, Staci Lynne (2012-05-17)
    With the increasing speed of our society as our technologies grow, we have become increasingly static in the use and understanding ofour physical bodies as we allow technology to go beyond the simple theory ofmimicking the ...
  • Detroit_Link 
    Neiling, Ryan (2012-05-17)
    The decentralization of many metropolises began decades ago when people began moving from the city center to suburban areas. This effectively reduced the number of people concentrated in one area in case of nuclear war, ...
  • Detroit: Urban Housing [re]Considered 
    Liburdi, Carlo (2012-05-17)
    Detroit's urban landscape transcends all inherent notions of what an urban landscape should resemble. It is within the framework of Detroit's tattered urban fabric that this investigation takes place. The concept of hard ...
  • DESTINATION: Building a Foundation for Mass Transit 
    Tomlinson, Trevor L. (2012-05-17)
    DESTINATION: Building a Foundation for Mass Transit Every building we design today is designed to incorporate the automobile in some way. Parking must be considered and proportional to the building occupancy. The footprint ...
  • Designing the Message 
    Allan, Johanna (2012-05-17)
    “Brands are persuasive lifestyle packagers, powerfully focused on molding our ideas about what our identity should be.” (Klingmann, 2007, p. 2) Many companies use brand identity to persuade people to buy their product, but ...
  • Designing for Loss 
    Hoppe, David (2012-05-17)
    Floods are the number one most common natural disaster in the United States. Each year they kill hundreds of people and cause billions of dollars in damages to both the natural and the built environment. They are both ...
  • Designers, Builders, Users: Messing with Mainstream Architecture 
    Noto, Andrew (2012-05-17)
    The built environment is representative of a society’s health. It grows and diminishes with economic changes and largely affects social behavior. Therefore it is easy to ascertain that healthy and vibrant built environments ...
  • Design + Making 
    Cephas, Jana (2012-05-17)
    Drawing is at once a mark made upon a surface and a derivation of meaning from the making of the mark. A cursory look suggests that drawing is merely a communicative medium not dissimilar from written language; the drawing ...
  • Democratic Impermanence 
    Ryan, Sean (2012-05-17)
    Democracy is a word that generally provokes perceptions of freedom, choice, or the understood ability to have an effect on your environment. However, the actual composition of our physical environment is largely the product ...
  • Cultured Growth: Nature as Cultural Object 
    Haas, Ryan (2012-05-17)
    Although seemingly contradictory, Nature and Culture are inextricably linked to each other, with modern culture wholly developing as a result of the natural physical world, which has in turn been affected by the culture ...
  • A Culturalist Manifesto 
    Petzak, Christopher (2012-05-17)
    Society is sculpted by the information it is fed. A particular society’s habits are a direct product of an education and value system and what has been internalized from those systems. Architecture is a direct appearance ...
  • Crossing Thresholds: Blending Boundaries 
    Hoehn, Brian (2012-05-17)
    Urban boundaries exist in multiple forms. Interaction across these boundaries is typically unseen. Many forms of current architectural design reflect this isolated and individualistic feeling. Many contemporary buildings ...
  • Creating "The Smart City" 
    Rios, Patrice (2012-05-17)
    The world is a heavily segregated place where we are first separated by the seven continents, broken down into many countries, then by cities, trickling all the way down to towns branching off into neighborhoods and ...
  • Control Through Design 
    Dorow, Rory (2012-05-17)
    What is a border? Does a border depend on the site or the people that live there? Is a border just a governmental idea of where their domain exists to? This thesis is an investigation into what the qualities of a border ...
  • Contextual Transit 
    Perry, Jeffrey (2012-05-17)
    Over the last one hundred years Detroit has risen to become one of the most populated cities in American with the help of the automobile industry and has since become a deteriorating city losing population constantly as ...
  • Container Content and The Space Between 
    DeGrendel, Christopher (2012-05-17)
    This thesis began with an observation within an environment of quite the mundane. The observation drew upon curiosity of certain connections that were generated toward a painting that was place within the confines of this ...
  • Consuming Spaces 
    Lis, Kimberly (2012-05-17)
    This thesis is a critique of public space and its role within community and consumer culture. When analyzing public space, it is a prime location for social interaction, but the context in which this interaction exists ...
  • Connecting-Engaging-Exploring Underwater 
    Waire, Danielle (2012-05-17)
    Research may find that architecture in the region in the present may have changed significantly from the ancient architecture that has been submerged in the water. There may be a chance that the architecture on land in the ...

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