College of Design (CoD)
In 2016, the College of Architecture was renamed the College of Design. The College of Design use the design process to develop new technologies, anticipate the future of buildings and environments, and change the way people experience art, things and their immediate surroundings.
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Sub-communities within this community
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Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) [104]
CQGRD bring together the expertise and resources to develop innovative, responsible, and efficient solutions to achieve quality growth. -
College of Design Dean's Symposium [7]
The Dean’s Symposium series is an annual event jointly sponsored by the College of Design and its Alumni Committee -
School of Architecture [231]
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School of Music [74]
Among the oldest traditions of the Institute, the School of Music began when a group of fourteen students formed the Georgia Tech Band in 1908. Now, in addition to its unparalleled dedication to traditional performing arts, ...
Collections in this community
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Architecture Centennial Lecture Series [14]
A series of lectures and events celebrating 100 years of architectural education at Georgia Tech. -
Building Construction Apartment Industry Lecture Series [9]
An overview of the emerging building construction apartment industry -
College of Design Books [1]
Books published by students and faculty of the College of Design -
College of Design Brochures [2]
Descriptive brochures about the programs and degrees offered by the College of Design -
College of Design Faculty Publications [30]
Papers, Pre/Post-Prints, and Presentations by Faculty in the College of Design -
College of Design Fifth Year Student Research Papers [375]
School of Architecture. Georgia Instittute of Technology -
College of Design Newsletters [32]
Published college news. -
College of Design OSP Research Reports [156]
Research reports by faculty and researchers in the College of Design -
College of Design Undergraduate Projects [1517]
Original work by undergraduate students in the College of Design -
Design and Technology for Healthy Aging Initiative at Georgia Tech (DATHA) [25]
A multidisciplinary effort that brings together researchers, practitioners and service providers from Georgia Tech and the Atlanta area to identify, develop and implement new design and technologies for healthy aging -
Georgia Tech Solar Decathlon 2007 (2009.039) [1]
Documents related to Georgia Tech's entry in this international competition -
PhD Focus [8]
The newsletter of the College of Design's (formerly College of Architecture) PhD Program. -
T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in Imagination [1]
A series of lectures in honor of celebrated Atlanta interior designer T. Gordon Little -
Urban Connections [4]
The newsletter of the Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Program.
Recent Submissions
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Procedure to categorize wheelchair cushion performance using compliant buttock models
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyFrontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022-09)Purpose: Wheelchair cushion prescription often seeks to address tissue integrity in addition to other clinical indicators. Because hundreds of wheelchair cushion models are available, a benefit would result if cushions ... -
Dataset: Procedure to categorize wheelchair cushion performance using compliant buttock models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-09)Wheelchair cushion prescription often seeks to address tissue integrity in addition to other clinical indicators. Because hundreds of wheelchair cushion models are available, a benefit would result if cushions were classified ... -
Characteristics of Jetters and Little Boxes: An Extensibility Study Using the Neighborhood Connectivity Survey
(2022)Individuals connect to sets of places through travel, migration, telecommunications, and social interactions. This set of multiplex network connections comprises an individual’s “extensibility,” a human geography term ... -
Dataset for "Propulsion cost changes of ultra-lightweight manual wheelchairs after one year of simulated use"
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022)Manual wheelchairs are available with folding or rigid frames to meet the preferences and needs of individual users. Folding styles are commonly regarded as more portable and storable, whereas rigid frames are commonly ... -
THE NON-EXISTENT CHAIR SERIES: EVALUATING GENERATIVE DESIGN OUTCOMES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-02)Generative Design has been a popular topic in the design world for a while, earlier inventions like shape grammar and space syntax generate geometrical designs with sets of rules defined by the user. The latest invention ... -
Design and Evaluation of A Feng Shui Supported Augmented Reality Tool for Furniture Placement at Home
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-01)Home is not only the place we live, but there’s also a strong connection between the home environment and our psychological well-being. There are many factors that need to be considered when thinking about interior design; ... -
Enhancing Organizational Transformation for Design-Build Infrastructure Projects: Design Liability, Construction Quality Assurance, and New Engineering Leadership Requirements
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07-29)Major transportation infrastructure projects have used alternative project delivery, such as design-build (DB), to streamline and expedite project delivery, transferring many roles and responsibilities from state departments ... -
A Systems Approach to Biomimetic Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-27)This thesis investigates utilizing a model-based systems engineering tool for knowledge reuse and traceability. The increased complexity of products and their systems requires designers to have the ability to trace their ... -
Barriers and Potential Solutions to Gender Diversity in the Construction Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-04)The construction industry faces significant challenges filling vacant jobs to match supply with demand. With 20 percent of the construction workforce not returning after the pandemic within a booming housing market and the ... -
AN ATLANTA-BASED ANALYSIS ON THE FEASIBILITY OF EMPLOYEE COMMUTE OPTIONS PROGRAMS AND SWITCHING FROM DRIVING ALONE TO ALTERNATIVE COMMUTE MODES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-02)Employee commute options programs – also known as employer-based transportation demand management (TDM) programs – are rooted in the philosophy of TDM and trip reduction. There is a long history of TDM policies and efforts ... -
Shape Machine: shape embedding and rewriting in visual design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-27)Shape grammar interpreters have been studied for more than forty years addressing several areas of design research including architectural, engineering, and product design. At the core of all these implementations, the ... -
Addressing Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) Data Needs: A Case Study in a Low Resource Community
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) is a method of simulating the energy usage of a grouping of buildings, at the scale of a neighborhood or city, rather than the typical simulation of a single building. This can be a ... -
A FRAMEWORK TO SIMULATE DIVERSE OCCUPANCY AND PRESENCE SENSING TECHNOLOGY TO REGULATE HEATING AND COOLING ENERGY IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)With the rapid progression of human sensing technologies, High Performance Buildings (HPB) are inevitably moving towards the wide scale automation of occupancy detection for energy efficiency purposes. Occupancy patterns ... -
Dataset for "Effect of wheels, casters and forks on vibration attenuation and propulsion cost of manual wheelchairs"
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-10)Manual wheelchair users are exposed to whole-body vibrations as a direct result of using their wheelchair. Wheels, tires, and caster forks have been developed to reduce or attenuate the vibration that transmits through the ... -
The Design of a Family of Parametric Anatomically-Based Compliant Buttock Models to Evaluate Wheelchair Cushion Performance - Fabrication Package
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07)The evaluation of wheelchair cushion performance is of interest to a variety of stakeholders. Over the years, several buttocks models have been used to evaluate wheelchair cushion performance. These vary in design and ... -
High Performance (Sub)urbanism
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022)This studio report documents the redevelopment proposals of six teams of MS urban design and MS high performance building students to advance DeKalb County's 2020 Memorial Drive Revitalization Plan. The report is intended ... -
A Greenspace Ethnography of Southwest Atlanta: A Review and Tool
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The purpose of this thesis study is to provide a tool and foundation for a community science-based greenspace ethnography of a neighborhood. The research requires an assessment of environmental history, policy, plans, and ... -
Development and evaluation of a design tool for occupational therapists to facilitate co-design of assistive technology with designers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-05)Development of effective assistive technology (AT) for individuals for disabilities necessitates close collaboration between occupational therapists (OTs) and designers. Currently, their successful collaboration is hampered ... -
Impact of Tangible Augmented Reality on Electromyography Output
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The utilization of augmented reality for guiding user motions and the incorporation of sensors as an assessment tool are areas of growing interest. Potential for future application exists in the viability to produce real-time ... -
Functional Materials: Investigating ways to make traditional prototyping materials sensible and reactive leveraging with computing technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)This thesis presents a fabrication tool-kit developed through material-driven inquiry to make the rigid prototyping materials flexible and augment their sensing capability by combining them with conductive substrate ...
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