Mit architecture master thesis download

The Institute is committed to the preservation of each student's thesis because it is both a requirement for the MIT degree and a record of original research that contains information of lasting value. The requirements in this guide apply to all theses and have been specified both to facilitate the care and dissemination of the thesis and to assure the preservation of the archival paper copy.

Chris Dewart, Corentin Fivet Whole-timber is stronger per unit weight and requires less energy to produce than conventional dimensioned lumber. When combined into efficient structural configurations and joined using specially engineered connections, whole-section timber and bamboo WSTB have the potential to replace entire steel and concrete structural systems in large-scale buildings, bridges, and infrastructure.

Providing a more balanced relationship with our forests while requiring minimal industrial processing, WSTB may be the most appropriate structural solution for a low-carbon, fully renewable future in both developed temperate regions and the developing Global South.

Review will be in the N51 Woodshop. Les Norford This thesis looks into the history of school design in America and how it has changed through the years.

It also serves to analyze these changes within schools of different socioeconomic backgrounds in the East County region of San Diego, California.

Within the last seventy-five years, the ideals behind school design have changed greatly. About years ago, schools with an open floor plan were the brightest and newest thing.

However these designs were not optimal for student learning and were phased out by the s.

When these designs were phased out, it resulted in a lot of new schools or school renovations occurring. These renovations were more difficult to ascertain in areas of lower socioeconomic standing and many times these schools had temporary fixes that never had a permanent fix done.

The areas with high socioeconomic standings had no difficulty getting the renovations necessary.

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This thesis looks into a few schools in a school district in San Diego that come from these lower socioeconomic regions and poses a potential fix for them.

Upon visits to these schools, lighting and acoustic measurements were taken and compared in order to create one facet of the proposal.

The other facet of the proposal comes in the form of input and feedback from site principals during these visits. This has been the course in all cities that have hosted the Olympics but it is something especially detrimental in Rio.

The rich have largely walled themselves off from the city within their gated communities and the poor are relegated to building on top of each other.

This creates a spacial paradigm with relatively little in between. This thesis seeks to use the Olympics as an opportunity to begin reversing the spatial segregation between the wealthy and the 4 poor within the city by proposing an intervention in the Olympic Village.

The village is planned to become a gated community after the games; this thesis redesigns its afterlife to be a mixed-income community. The project provides an architectural plug-in that activates the ground plane between the residential towers to promote interaction between different socio-economic groups.

While not forcing interaction, the programs and architectural landscape of the community present obstacles that provoke interaction.

This architectural plug-in can become a model that can be applied to other gated communities, initiating a process of disintegration of the gated community and its re-integration into the city.

War in Present Tense: As we move farther away in time frommost people do not remember the war through direct memories, but are rather informed about the experience through words and images from the war. When we think of the war, we conjure memories of lowresolution, black-and-white footages we have seen in historical footage, of bombs being dropped over Vietnamese forests and rice patties.

Our remembrance ends just as we run out of archival footage to think of and we label the war in our memory as a pitiful mistake of the past. However, the legacy of the Vietnam War proves this wrong: This population remains relatively unknown to the world — especially to the Western world. We are isolated from the Agent Orange-affected population because we have grown dependent on curated images found in popular media and the images of the Vietnam War do not include this population.

Here, a challenging duty of a filmmaker is to create new images that convey their experience.

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New images will replace these pseudo-memories of Vietnam War that not only incorrectly represent the war as a frozen past, but cause isolation of a population that can inform society about the never-ending consequences of war and technology.

This isolation represents a bigger, problematic cycle of isolation in our society: This thesis does not discourage exposition itself; exposition connects different cultures and provides a larger understanding of the world, and it can also lead to constructive consequences that better the condition of its subjects.

A filmmaker must acknowledge the power behind his or her camera and realize that conveying the experience of others through film is not a simple task of his or her own narrative instincts, but entails a larger, delicate responsibility.

How can film revive engagements with a seemingly concluded war? How do we tell stories of people with visually apparent abnormalities without ostracizing them? Different ways to represent a child; a child topa child with Down Syndrome bottom 5 Design for the Improvement of Mental Health: Marlene Kuhn, John Ochsendorf In the last academic yearseventy-two undergraduate students have taken time off from MIT due to medical reasons, which are typically related to psychiatric conditions.

Many campus initiatives address aspects of MIT life such as workload, campus culture, and availability of mental health services but there is seldom a focus on how the physical environment of this campus affects our mental health. This thesis focuses on the effects of natural light and exposure to nature.

Light affects both mood and perception, and can determine how accurately one can perform a visual task.DSpace @ MIT Theses - Dept. of Architecture Research and Teaching Output of the MIT Community. Architecture - Master's degree.

Architecture - Ph.D. / Sc.D. Recent Submissions. New buildings for the New England Peabody Home for Crippled Children: Oak Hill, Newton, Massachusetts . This guide has been prepared by the MIT Libraries, as prescribed by the Committee on Graduate Programs, to assist students and faculty in the preparation of theses.

The Institute is committed to the preservation of each student's thesis because it is both a requirement for the MIT degree and a.

The master's thesis is the result of the student's individual performance and must be proof of the capability for self-responsible design work (see art.

ff. of the Academic Regulations for the master's degree programme in architecture). Find: Paper and microfiche: Search the library catalog, Barton. Digital: Search MIT Theses in DSpace.. DSpace does NOT contain the complete collection of MIT theses. Use Barton to search for all MIT theses.; Recently submitted: Contact Institute Archives if the thesis is not found in Barton..

Theses are received one month after degrees are granted in February, June, and September. Students in the Master of Architecture (MArch), Master of Science in Architectural Studies (SMArchS), Master in City Planning (MCP), or Master of Science in Urban Studies and Planning (MS) degree programs are eligible for a Certificate in Urban Design if they complete curriculum subjects drawn from the two departments.

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