Browsing by Department "Architecture and Design, Gerald D. Hines College of"
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A Service Design to Assist People with Buying Used Cars
(2019-12)This thesis was inspired by international students facing challenges buying used cars in the United States. Buying a used car can be a stressful experience for many people. For international students in particular, the ... -
Accelerated Odyssey: The impact of the Camera Obscura on perception, reflection, and environments and how contemplative design can respond to a thoughtful life.
(2018)The camera obscura accelerated our ability to capture light, time, and environments. Through environmental analysis in material, light, and time, artistic examples throughout history have shaped the augmentation of the ... -
Adjustable Smart Limb Socket
(2020)Artificial limbs can cost upwards of $100,000 but without a proper fit, it is difficult to wear them for even more than a few hours and may even cause further injury to the patient. In fact, 13.4% of amputees in third world ... -
After Kahn at IIM
(2020-05)Alexandra Tyng describes her father's design approach at the Indian Institute of Management as a combination of building typology and program. Library, classrooms, dormitories and teacher’s residences are designed as ... -
Amman: Jordanian Identity after Modenrism
(2020-05)The Municipality of Greater Amman sought from the early 1950s to frame Amman as the Modern City of the Middle East. To reach such a goal, they instated five urban planning commissions over the course of fifty years. The ... -
Auto Isolation: The Reshaping of Infrastructure, Society, and Space with Autonomous Cars
(2017)The car was a vital part of American society and identity. Traditionally, driving one signified one’s right of passage and allowed the user freedom and status. Cities have evolved around automobiles with freeways and parking ... -
Bathing in History - Damascus
(2020-05)“England knows Egypt; Egypt is what England knows; England knows that Egypt cannot have self-government; England confirms that by occupying Egypt; for the Egyptians. Egypt is what England has occupied and now governs; ... -
Berlin Germany: The Disaster of WWII
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Brisbane: The Great Floods
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Building Structures with a Swarm of Robots
(2018)Advances in construction automation have primarily focused on creating heavy machines to accomplish repetitive tasks. While this approach is valuable in an assembly-line context, it does not always translate well for the ... -
Calgary, Canada "The Great Fire of 1886"
(2017)Every city has experienced a major disaster, some cities survived and learned from it, some did not. This project is going to find the biggest disaster from individual’s case city and explore how did resolve the problem ... -
Casablanca: Colonial & Post-colonial Urbanism
(2020)The 2019 PAN-AFRICA study abroad program was based on a comparison of three major port cities: Casablanca, Tangier, and Marseilles. Students were to see first hand the inter-relationship between Arab and French culture in ... -
Cognitive Performance Improvement in a Workstation Design by Applying Biophilia and an Immersive Environment
(December 2)An isolated and confined environment, which can be categorized as low, moderate, and extreme risk, is detrimental to the physiological and psychosocial well-being from office workers to space crewmembers. Countermeasures ... -
Copenhagen Fire of 1728
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D - Disaster
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D.I.Y. Health: How Emerging Technology Empowers People to Prevent Future Health Issues and Hospital Interior Spaces
(2017)According to insurance and risk management firm Acrisure, there are more than 40,000 health-related software apps for smartphones with currently only 0.01% of the world’s population using them. This demonstrates an untapped ... -
Designing a Novel Support System for Feeding Pumps - A Case Study in User Involvement in Medical Design
(2019-05)Usability is an important aspect of medical product design, yet in spite of this fact, many medical device developers do not incorporate user-centered design methods when they design their products. One study found that ... -
Designing Furniture for Pediatric Speech-Language Therapy: A Participatory Design Approach
(2019-05)In the United States, 7.7% of children ages 3-17 have had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or swallowing in the past 12 months. Moreover, 34% of children ages 3-10 have multiple communication or swallowing ... -
Enhancing Prosthetic Dexterity by Integrating Multi-Material Printing and Design
(2020)5000 hand amputations occur annually in the US. With the average cost of a prosthetic hand currently over $10,000, many amputees are left without access to a functional prosthetic hand. 3D printing technology offers a ... -
Ergonomics of the Rucksack: Timing, Accessibility, and Mobility Considerations
(2018-05)Military equipment is designed to protect and support soldiers in the operational environment, which can be highly stressful, hazardous, and extremely challenging. In addition to the rigorous training that soldier’s receive ...