2022-2023 Senior Honors Theses
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This collection contains theses produced by Class of 2023 Honors students
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Item Latency as the Desaturator of Cities: Metropolitan Acupuncture(2023-05-01) Xavier, Bruno Belo TelesThis is an investigation on cities, our cities, and their ever-growing battle with densification. As cities become increasingly densified, their density begins to encroach onto the human space, preventing its inhabitants from building relationships with the spaces they inhabit. This paper seeks to explore marginal and unconventional ways to design urban spaces in order to both prevent and remediate saturated urban conditions from taking root, utilizing the spaces of the city which seem unsuitable for the use of the public. This is a provocation to instigate the search for new ways in which people can continue to express their human condition in spaces that tend to keep increasing in density.Item Roots: Renewal from Birth and Decay(2023-05-05) Saotonglang, Pornpun KimFor thousands of years, the way of life was symbiotic with the ecology of lowland jungles in then sparsely populated central Thailand. Such is the condition of birth. However, drastic population growth and inevitable changes in societal behavior today have placed the region on a path of physical development that is unsustainable. This trajectory of decay will only result in further destruction if continued. Therefore, there is an urgent need to restore ways of developing, utilizing, and dwelling that are in harmony with landscape and the natural water cycles – the need for renewal. Renewal is neither a nostalgic recreation of the past nor an utter disregard for the present, but rather a bridge between birth and decay. It is the process of identifying the key factors that made our historical relationship with the land symbiotic while addressing today's challenges and potential benefits to create the hybrid solutions that borrow the best of both worlds for a resilient tomorrow. This thesis restructures ways in which land, in the spirit of renewal, can be developed for living.