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San Rafael Blend: Coffee in Architecture
The San Rafael Blend project focuses on rehabilitating the existing mills and buildings of the existing coffee farm "Finca San Rafael" in Purulha, Guatemala, to develop a tourism complex. The purpose is to incorporate a ...
Social Media: Catalyst for Pedagogical Architecture
Placeness has always been a debated subject in architecture, especially to which extent site influences - or not - the final result of architecture. Despite the concept being long-discussed, from the Genius Loci of the ...
Neighborhood Sufficiency: an Environmental Model of a Self-Sufficient Urban Community
This project explores ideas of self-sufficiency through the design of a neighborhood-campus. This neighborhood is composed with easily accessible structures that are connected to multiple public urban mobility forms. This ...
Shock Trauma Facility
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated in 2019 that every year the U.S. receives 130 million patients in emergency department visits. Out of which 16.2 million patients visits result in hospital admissions ...
Memory Distillery: An Island Journey
Can we understand the memory of a place not by what remains but what has changed over time? When beginning the final project, the thesis was derived from general interests in adaptive reuse, visualization, and historic ...
Hot//Cold//Warm: Reintroducing the Public Bathhouse to the American Society
Reintroducing the public bath house to the American Society focuses on the important historical role of this typology in addressing public health and well being. In its beginnings the bath house served as a cleansing ...
Uncanny Ecology
Uncanny Ecology denies the artificial divide between humanity and nature, and acknowledges the agency of non-human things in the design process. By scrutinizing aesthetic and philosophical precedents, the created object ...
American College Town Mosque: a Study of Mosque Architecture in a Small College Town in the United States
The mosque is the Muslim community's religious space. Why is this book interested in mosques, and specifically, why is the interest in the practices of the community? To answer these questions, we will need a little ...
Neighborhood of Hope
The United States is the global leader in lock-ups with 2.3 million people currently in jails and prisons. Since the 1970s, marginalized groups, such as African Americans and Latinos, have been victims of an outdated ...
The Living Narrative
Architecture is the canvas for the stories of our lives. It adapts and fulfills the needs of those around us, dispersed throughout cities that are constantly growing. Yet, as the world evolves and technology advances, ...