In its descent from cabinets of curiosities to museums, the exhibition of knowledge is shifted from inclusiveness to specialization. This evolution from the general to the specific is well-preserved in London’s Albertopolis. Where the ultimate cabinet - the Crystal Palace - once thrived, later museums diversified along three major branches: natural ...

The project argues that post-war modernist residential neighborhoods such as those built during the communist regime in Bucharest, are valuable resources in need of design interventions meant to unlock their potential. 'Static Urbanism' is an urban strategy and a design framework for transforming these residential neighborhoods. The main design ...

Often in projects, seaming of material is not considered until late stages in the construction process where the options are to abide by manufacturers standards or invest additional time and money to adjust the design or create something custom. Most often, a seam is considered an eyesore, something we try to minimize or disguise, something we wish ...

The Department of Wellness is a new institution that exists to care for citizens. This thesis is the design of a headquarters facility for that agency in Washington D.C. It explores the productive overlap between the concerns of wellness and those of government. Rather than wellness being a topic of individual pursuit, this work imagines that actions ...

Emerging from Atlanta’s historical rail line infrastructure, the Atlanta Beltline, a twenty-two-mile ring of multi-use trails, parks, and light rail system is shaping a new way of life within the city’s urban core. The Beltline is challenging critical issues such as suburban sprawl and traffic congestion through strategies of connectivity, walkability, ...

California is built on land that readily burns, shakes and slides, and in the era of climate disruption, these ‘natural’ hazards are accelerating. Some say California never should have existed, but it does, and it will continue to, so the narrative necessarily pivots from ‘whether to exist’ to ‘how to exist’. The shared experience of disaster creates ...

This thesis explores a new technique for design through perspective which produces a phenomenon that reorders our perception of the familiar effects of lightness, heaviness, flatness, and depth within the same framework. The methodology allows representation to become a design tool through which one’s understanding gets incessantly updated, escaping ...

My thesis study tackles with the problem of “Growing the City, Shrinking the Footprint”. In cities that are growing even taller and condensing even smaller, I wanted to create a system utilizing an AERIAL PEDESTRIAN NETWORK system, namely WALKWAYS IN THE AIR to lift the DOMESTIC HORIZON; to create a CITY ABOVE GROUND, and to expand street life on ...

Intermission aims to create a new type of theater organization that results in changed environments of interaction between the private and public realms inside a theater. The purpose is to create an architecture that will generate a synthesis between the usually autonomous realms of audience, performer, and stage. Theaters fall into the category ...

The thesis focus on exploring the formal intermediacy between "the linear" and "the painterly" through the design of a theatre project.