2021-2022 Senior Honors Theses
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Item Cycles of the Columbia Tap(2022-05-12) Rincon, DavidOriginally a 19th century railroad, the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway served as a major connection between Houston and the communities southwest of it. After falling out of use, a 4 mile stretch of its remnants was converted into a hike and bike trail that now crosses through East Downtown and Third Ward. This project begins by looking at the cycles of the trail, beginning as a part of the coastal prairie, its transformation into a rail way, its abandonment, and its conversion into a hike and bike trail. Creating a series of proposals along the full length of the trail, this thesis looks to what the next stage in the cycle of the Columbia Tap Trail can be.Item De Zavala Charter School(2022-05-12) Tidwell, Savannah Y.An analysis on the impact of the built environment in educational settings.Item Design Practice in Support of Capitalism: Industrial Design and Cold War Consumer Politics(2021-12-18) Bhattacharya, Karina L.The United States and the Soviet Union were political rivals in a battle between U.S. capitalism and Soviet communism known as the Cold War. In the 1950s, international exhibitions such as the Marshall Plan Exhibits, the Brussels World’s Fair, and the American National Exhibition in Moscow were critical opportunities for the U.S. to show audiences in Europe and the Soviet Union that capitalism, as opposed to communism, offered a better standard of living for people living under its economic system. This thesis examines the role of the U.S. industrial designers who designed and curated exhibits at these international exhibitions to demonstrate their support of capitalism during the Cold War.Item Fabrication for Hope(2022-05-12) Martinez, GabrielaThe thesis reuses the idea of thicken walls like fortress and bring them into the project but not with their original use but its is through the understanding of Spanish colonial arquitecture to reimagine space. The internal architectural language used in the project and the external condition which is preserving the historical perimeter wall of the chosen site, provides structural stability, additional support space, and responds with awareness of the activity of the area.Item Factory City Tijuana: Tooling Space for Work and Living(2022-05-12) Reyes, AlejandroFactory City Tijuana is an architecture response to the current working conditions in Mexico and the Housing Crisis. This Project focuses on creating a new housing development model that focuses in quality of live and provides resources for former maquiladora workers and others who are self -employed would be highly beneficial for the residents of Tijuana. Former maquiladora workers could practice their own trade using their former skills and residents who used to have their own business outside their homes can now have their own space for work and living.Item From the Souks to the Sea - Beirut Coastal Pavilion(2022-05-12) Moghnieh, Jad F.A response to concurrent issues in Beirut, Lebanon. Pairing the lack of neutral public space and the exploitation of public maritime property on Beirut's coast with the August 4th, 2020 Blast at the Port of Beirut creates a network of relationships that reconnects the inhabitants of Beirut with the sea. The blast reveals an openness between the city and the sea where the former port disconnected the two. Coastal reclamation reinforces the people’s connection to their coastal identity and provides a common meeting ground for all sects. An urban scale intervention acts to connect the city and the sea through a public beach that lines the perimeter of the former coast. A new typology consisting of an open air souk, a pavilion, a beach facility and a sea bath creates a linear precession from the city to the sea.Item Infra Edge: Coastal Resilience in Galveston(2022-05-11) Tzul, AlbertoThe landscape of coastal neighborhoods around the world is undergoing a great transformation because of the effects of climate change and storm impact. These coastal regions currently function as homes for thousands of people and have an important historical significance. If there is no attention given to these regions and the problems they face now, then it will be substantially harder to find solutions to these issues in the future.Item La Quebrada de Acapulco(2022-05-12) Margain Lozano, Hugo PatrickNature and Culture, two apparently opposite worlds, seem to be in a constant state of collision. As their feed-back produces the landscape, their stark differences conceal the increasingly complex game at play between the two. In the age of the Anthropocene, when humans have reshaped the earths crust, atmosphere, and species' evolutionary trajectories, the existencial role of the built environment needs to be re-evaluated. The thesis develops in the apparent line that separates culture and nature. Exposing how time, weather, geology, and darkness interact with architecture, order, and human desire for stability and illumination.Item Liquid Dissidents(2022-05-12) Sevilla, AnaBiopolitics seeks to make the bathroom always more functional and discrete. The thesis explodes and multiplies the bathroom to deny functionality and invite new relationships between subjects and space. The bathroom’s Acts– toilets, baths, and mirrors – unfold around a productive toxic landscape depicting our waste and the new ecology that it creates. The work creates a singular space demanding heterogeneous interpretations and prolonged, intentional engagement with self and the material environment – each action in direct contradiction to the paradigmatic bathroom’s goals. Ultimately, the thesis creates space in the bathroom for our solubility to be considered and explored. Problematizing the relationship between bodies, space, and material ecologies helps frame new questions about what architecture does to us and what we do to it.Item Los Márgenes: La Disimilitud Urbana En La Ciudad De México / On The Margins: Urban Disparities In Mexico City(2022-05-12) Gonzalez Miramon, Miranda V.Santa Fe is an area in Mexico City that is set on the western margin of the city. This area of town was rapidly developed in the mid 1980s. Since its development the mega city center has only perpetuated marginalization of existing small towns and low income communities. The clearly defined physical borders of the area have enclosed these communities and have neglected their need for simple resources such as education, food, and health. To solve this, margins like walls could be transformed to create resource hubs and merge the marginalized communities with the rest of society. Traduccion: Santa Fe es un área en la Ciudad de México que se encuentra en el margen occidental de la ciudad. Esta área de la ciudad se desarrolló rápidamente a mediados de la década de los 80. Desde su desarrollo, el centro de Santa Fe solo ha promovido la marginación de los pueblos pequeños y las comunidades de bajos ingresos. Los márgenes físicos que claramente definen el área han encerrado a estas comunidades y han creado un desierto de recursos donde las necesidades básicas como educación, alimentación y salud son difíciles de conseguir. Para resolver esto, los muros que dividen podrían ser transformados para crear un centro de recursos y unir a las comunidades marginadas con el resto de la sociedad.Item Mississippi River Plug-In(2022-05-11) Zhu, Christopher J.The Mississippi River Plug-In is a project that addresses coastal urbanism and resiliency beyond physical matter. The vitality of the Mississippi River is threatened by climate change; a problem compounded by population loss and soft ground recession. While this issue is seen in various water-adjacent cities, the Mississippi River Plug-In focuses on the New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA) region - a uniquely fascinating space. New Orleans is dominated by the existence of the French Quarter, a district heavily popularized by tourism, media, social studies, and history; it is the first image of New Orleans to many. The city and river are currently disjointed, and there have been several efforts to introduce pedestrian-oriented spaces between the two, but have been largely unsuccessful due to necessary seawalls and levees. Taking advantage of this situation, the Plug-In project attaches itself and expands the footprint of the French Quarter through floating architecture onto the surface of the river. As an adaptable and flexible platform, the Plug-In project is intended to revitalize the city in congruence with current development plans to transform the historic riverfront. It is a unique opportunity for the various user-groups of New Orleans, from start-up creatives to satellites of well-established New Orleans businesses, to engage with the riverfront, overturn the declining urbanism, and introduce a new life along the Mississippi. The opportunity is provided by the meeting of coastal urbanism to climate change.Item Redesigning the Work-Live Space of 2040(2022-05-12) Yeh, Bethany G.This thesis is meant to show a rethinking of our work-live spaces and how it could positively affect our normal living routines to become more sustainable, spatially efficient, and conform to the future development of technology by 2040.Item Rethinking Health Awareness(2022-05-11) Nara, FukoPediatric obesity is now of epic proportions in the United States. Pediatric overweight and obesity now affect more than 30 percent of children, making it the most common chronic disease of childhood. The current clinics and hospital environments make it difficult to recover as well. Children are now spending less and less time outside learning and connecting with their environment, some not even knowing where our food is coming from. The proposed project converges clinic, education, and landscape, questioning the idea of efficiency and institutional character of a typical clinic and using landscape as a method of healing and learning. The building becomes the frame for these landscape spaces and dissolves into nature. Each of the programs is spread out throughout the site, connected by a low slope and nature. The development of space educates the children and their families as preventative care as well as a place for rehabilitation for those who are already suffering from unhealthy lifestyles.Item Senses Through Time: Interventions for the betterment of the 9-5 worker(2022-05-11) Quintana, RaquelThe thesis project is a critical reflection on the relationships between architecture and productivity using the senses, phenomenology, and cognition into the work day to benefit the 9-5 worker long term. The prioritization of efficiency has left workers stagnate, indifferent, ignorant, and doomed to normalcy. By utilizing an outdated skyscraper, the project becomes an opportunity to reimagine the trash produced by architecture in our fast-evolving world.