This thesis is an investigation of the separation of the public and private parts of a house, using stairs, walls and dropped ceilings to separate different spaces. The use of stairs to separate space creates rooms of different volumes. A further investigation of the transition between outdoors and indoors lead to the study of form through sketching. The site is located in a residential area in McLean, Virginia. It is a relatively flat site as there are no major slopes. The three acre lot is generous in size and was not meant to drive the design of the house by providing limits. Trees on three sides of the site provide a natural barrier between the adjacent lots, providing some privacy. The site is zoned such that it could have two driveways, one being used mostly by guests and the other by the occupants. / Master of Architecture

The design of the house began with a response to topography. The placing of the house at the bend of a hillside prompted a rotation of axis in the plan. As a result, the thesis becomes about the architectural implications of this rotation. Through formal studies in plan, what was originally conceived as a rotation of axis developed into a rotation of volumes. The interaction and transition between the two volumes becomes critical in mediating the rotation. The rotation can be signified by a change of material, or a change of volume, making it a point of emphasis and a part of the architecture. Materiality is important to the transition between volumes, as well as to the composition and expression of the elevations. The composition of a material in elevation can serve as an indicator of the quality and function of the interior spaces and its relation to the exterior spaces. New solutions to particular problems, such as the bridge element between the two parts of the house, are found through exploring and ultimately deciding upon the best architectural resolution. The means for exploring in architecture are drawing and building. / Master of Architecture

Our city is always in a state of change and renew. Sometimes such changes are drastic; sometimes, such changes are gentle. Some of the old urban forms, plans, streets and buildings will stay, and some will disappear quickly, and will always be memories. The surviving neighborhoods, streets and buildings, together with the new modern architecture, form the status quo of modern cities. However, between the old and the new, when we renew the city, can we still choose other positions? Can we refine the old things into skeletons, and guide us to design a "new" building that blends into the urban space? We may call this position "gradient." / Master of Architecture / The site is located in a historical district of Shikumen, in the middle of "Dao Da Li". The site now occupied by an abandoned regular square modern building that was once a supermarket. Although the building has damaged the texture of the historic district, it has also been part of the history of the city for decades. Therefore, " gradient " is a design concept that combines this modern building that was built 20 years ago with the architectural form of Shikumen, and finally presents a result which is born from the status quo and then regrowth by architect. I plan to build a new mix-use building on the site, mixing the commercial functions of the ground floor with the residential functions of the second and third floor. This is a building facing Shikumen, a building that integrates and serves the community.

Having grown up in a India, the importance of the courtyard was imbedded in the very essence of the understanding the architecture of a house.The project started of with the intention of designing a courtyard house, and eventually evolved to a house based on the principles of Indian building norms and cultures that have been cultivated for centuries. The fact that it is designed in the setting of Blacksburg, Virginia, these norms and cultural aspects were modified to suit the context of its surroundings. The projects resolves itself through details of practical elements that are romantisized by implementation of Indian building traditions and everyday rituals while the structural aspects of the house was made to reflect the local practices and methods. / Master of Architecture

How do I sense the domain of a place? How does it support my own domain? How does the place communicate its individuality? How does my self listen to this presence? How does the place nurture my inquiries? How does my intuition inhabit the place? Then, when one's own existence becomes evident, one meets the place. / Master of Architecture

This is a house situated by a river. It is a retreat, or a cabin, and is not occupied on a full time basis. Its form is an interpretation of a cube, and retains its general appearance. It is lifted off the ground to prevent damage when the river floods, and has a deep foundation to achieve stability on the loose floodplain soil. It has three levels, the first containing the main living areas, the second, a lofted space containing the bed and bath, and the third, a roof terrace. It is for two people, and so has a small footprint of about thirty two feet square. The footprint is subdivided into nine squares, with a fireplace and chimney occupying the center and habitable spaces surrounding the periphery. Its foundation is of a concrete two way flat slab supported by concrete caissons, its walls are of reinforced concrete masonry units, and its floors and ceilings are of small timber frame construction. / Master of Architecture

When I walk over Hatteras Island, I experience three things: the sand beneath my feet, the Ocean toward the East, and the Sound toward the West. Each has different qualities yet all three can be experienced simultaneously. It is my intention not to obstruct this connection, but rather to accentuate it. I will design a dwelling that will tie the sand, the Ocean, and the Sound together. It will be a reflection of the qualities of each of these natural elements. The dwelling will take on the characteristics of a screen, with many different levels of permeability, while providing the necessary amount of livable space. / Master of Architecture

O termo difundido internacional historic house museums une duas categorias: casas históricas e casas-museus. No Brasil, os termos utilizados são museus-casas ou, ainda, casas-museus. Estes se constituem em espaços abertos ao público, reunindo características de conservação e apresentação das obras exigidas pelo Conselho Internacional de Museus (ICOM) e apresentando relação entre a casa (espaço arquitetônico), o acervo (conteúdo) e o proprietário (habitante). O presente estudo consiste em uma análise de três modelos de museus-casas/casasmuseus, na cidade de São Paulo, sendo eles: Fundação Maria Luísa e Oscar Americano, Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin e Museu da Casa Brasileira. Essa análise levantará os principais itens relativos à arquitetura dos seus projetos, com ênfase nas plantas, o desenho das casas e sua transformação para museu. Trata-se, portanto, de uma reflexão sobre a tipologia dos museus-casas, baseada nas principais características observadas diretamente nas instituições selecionadas, utilizando, para tanto, textos que abordam aspectos históricos, sociais e técnicos, o Projeto de Classificação dos Museus-casas, elaborado pelo DEMHIST (Comitê Internacional de Museus-Casas Históricas, do Conselho Internacional de Museus, 1998), bem como a revisão dos trabalhos já realizados sobre o assunto por diversos autores, visando a um entendimento global das questões já levantadas a respeito do tema. / The spread out term international historic house museums joins two categories: historical houses and house-museums. In Brazil, the used terms are museum-houses or, still, housemuseums. These if constitute in open spaces to the public, congregating characteristic of conservation and presentation of the workmanships demanded for the International Advice of Museums (ICOM) and presenting relation between the house (space architectural), the quantity (content) and the proprietor (inhabitant). The present study it consists of an analysis of three models of museum-houses/house-museums, in the city of São Paulo, being they: Foundation Maria Luisa and Oscar Americano, Cultural Foundation Ema Gordon Klabin and Museum of the Brazilian House. This analysis will raise the main relative item to the architecture of its projects, with emphasis in the plants, the drawing of the houses and its transformation for museum. It is treated, therefore, of a reflection on the kind of the museum-houses, based in the main characteristics observed directly in the institutions selected, using, for in such a way, texts that approach aspects historical, social and technician, the Project of Classification of the Museum-houses, elaborated for the DEMHIST (International Committee of Historical Museum-House, of the International Advice of Museums, 1998), as well as the revision of the works already carried through on the subject for diverse authors, aiming at to a global agreement of the raised questions already regarding the subject.

國人對於「有土斯有財」的觀念很重視，加上房地產也是國人重要的投資工具，所以台灣的住宅市場存在著特異的現象，空屋率較外國高出許多，加上空屋數量雖多，但是房價卻似乎沒有因為過多的供給而下跌，這樣的現象令人好奇。 國內對於空屋面的探討很多，但因為受限於資訊的取得，而對於餘屋的研究有所侷限，以往文獻定義空屋為被閒置的房屋，包括大眾和建商手中所持有的空屋，而餘屋為建商尚未售出的存貨。比起空屋，餘屋和市場的價格應更為密切關係，因此本文將空屋定義為大眾手中持有的空屋；將餘屋定義為建商手中持有的空屋，試圖去了解空、餘屋和房價間的關係，利用可取得的資料進行實證。 本文主要的研究發現為： (一) 利用房價、空屋數、餘屋數三條式子去進行三階段最小平方法，發現所有變數的符號符合預期，且餘屋數、家戶數、地價、國民生產毛額和貨幣供給對房價有顯著的影響，空屋數和台股加權指數則不顯著，這表示會直接對房價產生影響的是餘屋數而非空屋數，這也是為什麼國內的房價不會受到龐大的空屋數量影響而下跌。 (二) 透過共整合檢定，更清楚的顯示房價、餘屋、國民生產毛額和貨幣供給存在著長期的均衡關係，這表示若要了解和解決住宅市場的問題，或許應該使用餘屋來估計、了解市場的狀況。

The near for several year Taiwan various metropolises city, steps out one after another footsteps of the city style transformation, simultaneously penetrates the successful city style transformation, not only causes the city transformation, to be reborn, also promotes the people to the city centripetal force and the honorable feeling. But lets the city continue forever, the health development must penetrate the space, the landscape, the environment, the ecology, the economy, the society, the culture, educates each good government. Again by way of each way city marketing, establishes its image localization to this city with his city populace or the foreign tourist. In recent years the whole world climatic change fierce change, the cause continues discharging to hundred years coming person for the greenhouse gas which has not controlled, the humanity since 19th century Industrial Revolution until now, discharged in the atmosphere CO2 (carbon dioxide) to have absorbs the infrared which the surface diverged, enable to approach the surface the temperature rise, this kind of approximate greenhouse increased the warm function to be called the greenhouse effect, but its function gas was the greenhouse gas.