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Title: Washington Park Center for Improvisational Music
Creator: White, Kellen
Date: 2010-07-30

Title: Elementary Charter School: Renovation and Addition
Creator: Hutchison, William
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Buffalo Food Path
Creator: Huttel, Anna
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Redefining the Urban Lifestyle, West Englewood, Chicago, IL
Creator: Haberkost, Jesse
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Nibakure Children's Village School: Nibakure Childrens Village School
Creator: May, Bryan
Date: 2010-07-13

Title: Eat Local Cleveland
Creator: Blewitt, Matthew
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: RE-IMAGING ANTIQUITIES IN LINCOLN PARK: DIGITIZED PUBLIC MUSEOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN A POST-COLONIAL WORLD
Creator: Whittaker, Daniel Joseph
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: The study of an architecture of autonomy consists of theoretical investigations into the realm of building types where a sole use or purpose...
Show moreThe study of an architecture of autonomy consists of theoretical investigations into the realm of building types where a sole use or purpose is manifest in a structure that could, site provided, be constructed. However, provisions that conventional architecture traditionally provide are not present in these explorations. Technological advancements such as indoor plumbing, electric lights, and vertical conveyance systems in the form of elevators and escalators are excluded. Platonic geometric form-making are instead thoroughly investigated, imagined, and manipulated for the purposes of creating new spatial experiences. The desired resultant is an architecture of singularity, an architecture of fantastical projection. Through a series of two theoretical ritual-based investigations, three-dimensional form manipulation and construction of proportioned scale models, the essence of elements that compose a spatial experience contributed to a collection of metaphorical tools by which the designer may use to build a third imagined reality: the re-imagination of the archetypal museum. A building whose purpose is not solely to house ancient objects in a near hermetically-sealed environment, free of temperature, humidity and ultra-violet light aberrations, but is a re-imagined. A structure meant to engage the presence of two seemingly divergent communities: the local patron/visitor and the extreme distant denizen. This paper also examines key contemporary global artists’ work and their contributions to the fragmentation / demolition of architectural assemblages for thepurposes of re-evaluating the familiar vernacular urban landscape while criticallypositioning the rôle of both the artifact and gallery in shaping contemporary audience’s museum experiences. The power of the internet and live-camera broadcasting of images utilizing both digital image recording and full-scale screen-projections enable the exploration of “transporter-type” virtual-reality experiences: the ability to inhabit an art work’s presumed original in situ location, while remaining in Chicago as a visitor within a vernacular multi-tenant masonry structure: vacated, evicted, and deconstructed for the purposes of displaying art amidst a new urbane ruin. The complexities of this layered experience is meant to simultaneously displace and interrupt a typical set of so-called a priori gallery expectations while providing the expectant simulacrum that video cameras and screens provide, whetting a contemporary patron’s appetite.positioning the rôle of both the artifact and gallery in shaping contemporary audience’s museum experiences. The power of the internet and live-camera broadcasting of images utilizing both digital image recording and full-scale screen-projections enable the exploration of “transporter-type” virtual-reality experiences: the ability to inhabit an art work’s presumed original in situ location, while remaining in Chicago as a visitor within a vernacular multi-tenant masonry structure: vacated, evicted, and deconstructed for the purposes of displaying art amidst a new urbane ruin. The complexities of this layered experience is meant to simultaneously displace and interrupt a typical set of so-called a priori gallery expectations while providing the expectant simulacrum that video cameras and screens provide, whetting a contemporary patron’s appetite.positioning the rôle of both the artifact and gallery in shaping contemporary audience’s museum experiences. The power of the internet and live-camera broadcasting of images utilizing both digital image recording and full-scale screen-projections enable the exploration of “transporter-type” virtual-reality experiences: the ability to inhabit an art work’s presumed original in situ location, while remaining in Chicago as a visitor within a vernacular multi-tenant masonry structure: vacated, evicted, and deconstructed for the purposes of displaying art amidst a new urbane ruin. The complexities of this layered experience is meant to simultaneously displace and interrupt a typical set of so-called a priori gallery expectations while providing the expectant simulacrum that video cameras and screens provide, whetting a contemporary patron’s appetite.positioning the rôle of both the artifact and gallery in shaping contemporary audience’s museum experiences. The power of the internet and live-camera broadcasting of images utilizing both digital image recording and full-scale screen-projections enable the exploration of “transporter-type” virtual-reality experiences: the ability to inhabit an art work’s presumed original in situ location, while remaining in Chicago as a visitor within a vernacular multi-tenant masonry structure: vacated, evicted, and deconstructed for the purposes of displaying art amidst a new urbane ruin. The complexities of this layered experience is meant to simultaneously displace and interrupt a typical set of so-called a priori gallery expectations while providing the expectant simulacrum that video cameras and screens provide, whetting a contemporary patron’s appetite.positioning the rôle of both the artifact and gallery in shaping contemporary audience’s museum experiences. The power of the internet and live-camera broadcasting of images utilizing both digital image recording and full-scale screen-projections enable the exploration of “transporter-type” virtual-reality experiences: the ability to inhabit an art work’s presumed original in situ location, while remaining in Chicago as a visitor within a vernacular multi-tenant masonry structure: vacated, evicted, and deconstructed for the purposes of displaying art amidst a new urbane ruin. The complexities of this layered experience is meant to simultaneously displace and interrupt a typical set of so-called a priori gallery expectations while providing the expectant simulacrum that video cameras and screens provide, whetting a contemporary patron’s appetite.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2015
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Title: Initiating Strategies for Urbanization and Housing Patterns
Creator: Rehan, Natale
Date: 2010-07-30

Title: URBAN RETROFIT OF THE HISTORICAL CITY OF AHMEDABAD, INDIA
Creator: Patel, Chanakya Dineshbhai
Date: 2012-11-26, 2012-12
Description: Most great cities of today originally started as small settlements on the banks of rivers. Ahmedabad, founded in year 1411 AD by emperor Ahmed...
Show moreMost great cities of today originally started as small settlements on the banks of rivers. Ahmedabad, founded in year 1411 AD by emperor Ahmed Shah indeed has a claim for thriving in all aspects of life for the past six centuries. Established as a small military settlement on the dry and sandy north Gujarat plains on the bank of river Sabarmati, Ahmedabad today is fifth largest city and seventh largest metropolitan of India. Geographically the Sabarmati River divides the city of Ahmedabad into two segments. Within each side of the city there are two distinct images, urban west and historic east. It could be stated that the historic district of city must now hold its position as the center both geographically and economically considering the overall metropolitan area of Ahmedabad. With rapid urbanization, the historic district is overlapped by today’s fast paced life and urbanity resulting a steady loss of its heritage and greater than that, a sense of place. This thesis proposes a conservation and reconstruction model for the historic district of Ahmedabad addressing the most fundamental issues of economic viability and sustainability. The main challenge driving this thesis is how to retrofit the historic district so that it matches the urbanity of 21st century along with keeping its historic character intact. The initial process is to assemble background observations and research that will provide an understanding of the concepts required for retrofitting the historic district of Ahmedabad. It is hopeful that the ideas and architectural process can also be a framework to be applied on other historic cores that have been neglected and suppressed by today’s urbanity and especially in Asian countries.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2012
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Title: Creative Public Library and Material Center
Creator: Phanuprasit, Praerin
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Waste to Work
Creator: Vlahakis, Meredith
Date: 2010-07-30

Title: Nibakure Children's Village School
Creator: May, Bryan
Date: 2010-07-13

Title: 35TH BRONZEVILLE·IIT SOCIAL CONDENSER
Creator: Hyesun, Jeong
Date: 2012-11-19, 2012-12
Description: The transit station at IIT is mono-functional, lacking connections to place or programs that engage flows of people passing in and out of the...
Show moreThe transit station at IIT is mono-functional, lacking connections to place or programs that engage flows of people passing in and out of the neighborhood. Due to this fact, campus areas around the transit station become desolate and lackluster giving no motivation for people to remain at the station other than just to take train and bus. IIT’s campus lacks engagement with Bronzeville, although both the institution and neighborhood share the transit station. My proposal for these problems is to design a transit station and cultural complex that provides a social condenser for the larger community of Bronzeville. This will create a rich mixture of programs and amenities to be shared by both audiences
M.S. in Architecture, December 2012
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Title: Learning Company, Literacy Center, Johannesburg, South Africa: final board
Creator: Gray, Aisling
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Chicago Urban Art Center
Creator: Erick, Kristanto
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: SHIPPING CONTAINER AS HOME FOR MIGRANT WORKER IN CHINA
Creator: Yang, Ying
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: The spectacular increasing population of Chinese rural migrant workers is a big issue faced by government in recent years. Most of Chinese...
Show moreThe spectacular increasing population of Chinese rural migrant workers is a big issue faced by government in recent years. Most of Chinese migrant workers are now confronted with the difficult working and living conditions in the Chinese labor market. How to relieve the tension of housing market for these poverty migrant workers is the question of my thesis. To satisfy worker’s desire for basic living conditions, a modular housing service system in China is a practicable infrastructural project to be developed by government.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2014
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Title: Civic Space: Kuwait
Creator: Kassem, Dalal
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Architecture and the Void: Perceptible Formlessness
Creator: Hindley, Douglas
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: HOUSING CHINESE DREAMS
Creator: Wong, Jing Jie
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: The Chinese Dream is President Xi Jinping's integrative and transformative vision for China, with the goals to achieve "a great rejuvenation...
Show moreThe Chinese Dream is President Xi Jinping's integrative and transformative vision for China, with the goals to achieve "a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". However, the realities in China seem to be far from the conditions of a dream. The emerging Chinese middle class are eager to join the army of slaves to their impossible mortgages for their bedroom town homes, in fulfillment of what the modern Chinese psychodynamics have collectively decided to be a necessity in pursuance of a good life. So, where are the capacities of the Chinese Dream for the individuals in this modern times? The dream has to address the deteriorating sense of belonging and home of the millions of working middle class, before it can even consider itself a collective effort. The individuals should be encouraged to dream and strive, in order for this to happen, the fundamentals of a good living environment must be collectively accessible. Studies on the collective forms of housing in China's recent history had shed light onto the importance of urban elements such as the hutong network and socialist work unit in social control. However, a case study on China's gated housing models had also opened up discussions on what a complete razing of culture, history and forced resettlements had done in the name of providing quantities of housing within China's neoliberal shift. This thesis explores the elements of providing quality living environments for this group of people that have been called upward-mobile, tech-savvy and entrepreneurial. With the idea of owning a house becoming increasingly important to the Chinese middle class, architecture attempts to bridge gaps between the realities of the sub-par housing towers in gated peripheral areas and the dying traditions of collectivism. By looking at the success of the hutong and danwei dormitories as spaces for social order as well as spaces for commercial and social interaction, a translation of this is deemed to be emulated in modern housing. A super-hybrid of dwellings and designed "programmatic infection" is bound to happen by studying the development of "dream-like" housing prototypes in history.
M.S. in Architecture, July 2017
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Title: Hostile Spaces and Hostel Spaces: Re-Visioning Highway Infrastructure: Kevin Smith_masters project_11x17
Creator: Smith, Kevin
Date: 2010-07-30

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