Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1984. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-179). / This thesis examines the consequences of building homes in a factory and explores viable construction alternatives using factory-made panels. The exploration considers panelized systems of dwelling construction and its ability to adapt to a variety of site conditions while providing a wide range of spatial options to the inhabitants. / by David Reed Borenstein. / M.Arch.

Thesis (S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012. / "June 2012." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92). / The completion of any visual work is not an arrival, but furthered from the origin, the inner plane of perspective, which is so readily lent from the context of communicating the seemingly coded space from which I am inspired. The closest visual language within my grasp to elucidate my inquiries and to extend the physical works into a shared plane of seeing is through prose. This exploration of my research through the coupling of visual works, contextualized through the lens of allegory, furthers my understandings to communicate the inconsistencies in visual articulation. The prose in this case will not be treated as a literary work but as an extension of pre-conscious vision around which my practice has centered. When we read, we activate both a consciously aware state and the pre-conscious workings of our memories, this internal plane where perspective can be realized as a special architecture without form. While writing has the potential to motivate all of the senses, I use it in an attempt to restore the concrete to its original state; the internalized presence of its dimension. I am captivated by a kind of site I cannot clearly articulate with words or works, but there is a clarity, which may be revealed through the parallel pursuit that I will here explore. I would like to see this work as a map of multiple dimensions, a set of architectures that together elucidate a whole. / by Matthew Everett Lawson. / S.M.in Art, Culture and Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1967. M.Arch. / by Jeffrey Heller. / M.Arch.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 134). / Transparency issue remains one of the top issues that have discouraged foreign investors to invest China's real estate market. This thesis establishes a framework for Chinese developers to create transparency for their development projects. It consists of the company transparency, the country-level, region-level, city-level, and project-level analyses around a project in Chongqing, China. Many special situations in China are discussed as well in order to acknowledge the existing transparency issue in China, especially in the real estate industry. / by Feng Han. / S.M.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, February 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 147). / In recent decades, Seoul in Korea has experienced a rapid economic and urban development. As a result, the city exposes extreme disharmony between different zones. For example, the heavy mega structures are inconsiderately located right next to the small old fabric district. The thesis especially focuses on the urban conflict between high-rise and low-rise residential areas. The later high-rising development impaired single family housing environment and drastically changed existing urban landscape and structure. Instead of pursuing coexistence and sharing, it chose to delete all the historical accumulation over time and to be inserted like an urban island in the city. The goal of this thesis is to reconcile these two - physically adjacent but, - in reality, totally separated residential areas in such a way that redesign the boundary while respecting the existing systems of two zones. This mediating zone will provide two areas with what those lack. Whereas infrastructure such as parking and circulation system will tie the old fabric up as a whole, bringing urbanity into mega block will enrich tower residents' urban life. The project will provide communal, commercial, and public - indoor and outdoor - programs serving for both zones. As an architectural device, the stair contributes to 3-dimensional organization of a current 2-dimensionally treated division. This thesis focuses three main attributes of stairs; First, the verticality of stairs connects two levels creating a sequence of experiences from the lower level to the higher level. Second, inhabitability of stairs implies that stairs can be used not only for circulation purpose but also occupiable space. Third, its strong figurativeness strengthens the degree of singularity as an urban artifact. / by Yoonhee Cho. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-126). / A digital paint package has been developed which places attention on the design of personal "brush " patterns. The user generates an image by iterating these pattern modules on the raster display. During the application of a pattern, it can grow, shrink, and change in opacity level under the user's control. This method of digitally creating images was developed in light of the problem of representing visual characteristics effectively while "painting" with a computer graphics system . Allowing the user to design personal brush patterns, which can be stored in a library of patterns, and to make marks by repeating them, expands the potential visual qualities of the image as demonstrated by sample images included in this thesis. Software functions are provided for creating and editing patterns through a menu of selections. These functions treat individual shapes and colors in a pattern as separate entities that can be manipulated. Shapes can be manipulated individually, or as a selected group. The manipulation functions include the following: move, copy, scale, and delete. Software functions are also provided for the editing of color components. One method allows a color's red, green, and blue components to be adjusted. And the other allows its hue, lightness, and saturation levels to be adjusted. / by Yuan-Lin Mao. / M.S.V.S.

Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90). / by Amy Susan Bruckman. / M.S.V.S.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [78]). / The recent legitimization of Landscape Urbanism as a theory for architectural design may signal a growing cultural shift toward environmental custodianship. Design strategies that blur buildings and landscape have become architecture's new orthodox response to this trend, promising continuity between architecture and landscape on the new "green" urban surface. However, the infrastructural and organizational demands of this blurring of city and country may actually require an architecture that is more flexible over its lifespan -more appropriately accommodating the on-going bureaucratic alterations required to manage this utopian complexity. This thesis offers a modest proposal for big-box architecture, one capable of delivering continuity and flexibility for the city, even for programs that require functional separation. An exploration of this super-sized typology, the Mega-Shed demonstrates the timeless desire to manage the environment, while resisting the urge to re-create picturesque landscape. Whereas modern cities banished their support systems to the periphery, the Mega-Shed is a passive machine for the current age, an organizational strategy capable of bringing these support systems back into view, producing a sublime utility in the heart of the city. / by Stephen Andrew Perdue. / M.Arch.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1955. / Accompanying drawings held by MIT Museum. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106). / by Robert Traynham Cole. / M.Arch.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2010. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61). / This thesis questions which would be a valid approach for building design machine aided by computational intelligence capable of generating surprises for their designers-observers. There have been efforts since the 1960s towards developing frameworks for design machines that were envisioning computational systems as something more than tools for efficient production and representation. Some of them were dealing with design problems as complex systems that needed to be broken down in modular parts, for example Christopher Alexander's "Notes on the Synthesis of Form". However such strategies were associated with explicit languages of descriptions and strong hierarchies, defined in advance by the designer, that were constraining the design space to what these predefined descriptions were anticipating. This thesis draws its motivation from the work of Professor of Design and Computation George Stiny on visual computations operating on non-fixed sets of primitives, as well as from research conducted in the field of Artificial Intelligence on alternative representations. I will propose a framework for a design machine highlighting the importance of it being able to generate its own dynamic descriptions, "entities" that bear content independent of the interpretations of their designers. Inspired by a computational system, developed by Stephen Larson (2003), capable of grounding its own symbols in perception, I will experiment with self-organizing map algorithms suggesting them as a possible way for a design machine to build up and update its language of description from its perceptual information. / by Varvara Toulkeridou. / S.M.