This
capstone project
explores
community development approaches for
improv
ing
the Mack Ave
nue Commercial Corridor from Alter Road to East Outer Drive
;
which
borders the City of Detroit on the north and the ...
Most often the design of a building is thought to originate solely from the mind of the designer. The architect’s vision focuses on a final product while the construction process is seen as a means of creating that product. ...
Throughout history architects as well as engineers have sought to find solutions to the humanities problems through the built environment. All professions have or will influence architecture in some way either directly or ...
There are designers, and there are makers. Each responds to different considerations when working their craft. A designer is largely concerned with form and beauty, crafting objects and images. The designer may be heavily ...
This thesis examines the philosophy of perspectivism, originating with Friedrich Nietzsche, and its most recent developments. Put simply, the perspectivist holds that all conceptual grasping of reality takes place from a ...
MAKING "IN THE SHAPE THAT CHANCE AND WIND GIVE THE CLOUDS, YOU ARE ALREADY INTENT ON RECOGNIZING FIGURES: A SAILING SHIP, A HAND, AN ELEPHANT…” - ITALD CAVIND, INVISIBLE CITIES. How do we re-program our intent to take a ...
Manitou Miikana explores the potential of developing communal experiences as a means of addressing historical and tourist-related concerns within the Canadian rural landscape. The creation of these experiences also seeks ...
What and how will we define the role of an architect in the interdisciplinary industry, the Space Industry? This thesis is not solving a particular problem by any means, but it’s an investigation to understanding the value ...
The question of who dates whom is one which has aroused considerable popular and scientific interest. The answer is paradoxical, for everyone knows that "like mates like" and that "birds of a feather f lock together" while ...
The project is a alternate look at sprawling transportation infrastructure, recognizing 21st century design/practice mentalities. As an example for design/implementation, it looks at the public condition of a street within ...
The desire to be self-reliant perpetuates the American way of life. The American dream is to be able to provide personal possessions for one’s self. One needs to look no further than the aspiration of most citizens to own ...
This thesis takes a deeper look into the place each of us call HOME. The topic is discussed from a phenomenological perspective, and revolves around memory and poetry of domestic spaces. The theories from Gaston Bachelard’s ...
Moments create memory. The moments in which we exist are a result of continuous passing of time. From these moments. our memories are written. A memory is not a duplication of an event, but an edited moment stored in the ...
A thesis that questions the transformation of space over time and the existence of the past into the future. How to relate to the past without losing the existence of today. Approach the metamorphoses of space as a ...
The microcommunity, which is a pocket within a defined area, often contained in a surrounding neighborhood or community, which creates a location that begins to relate to communities immediately surrounding community or ...
In recent years, around 48 percent of non-hospital healthcare establishments employed fewer than five workers. In contrast, 72 percent of hospital employees were in establishments with more than 1,000 workers. How can ...
In recent years, around 48 percent of non-hospital healthcare establishments employed fewer than five workers. In contrast, 72 percent of hospital employees were in establishments with more than 1,000 workers. How can ...
This thesis intends to interrogate the psychological realm of architecture that has been under examined in today’s world. Through the evolution of architecture there has always been questions on how to design; however, ...
Urban agriculture has taken root throughout Americas cities, and especially Detroit, with its shrinking population and expanding vacant land. It is a noble, effective, and productive conversion of unused blighted land ...