School of Architecture: Recent submissions
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Exploring the Craft of Sewing Machine-Facilitated Novel Earthbag Geometries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)The earthbag, or flexible-form rammed earth wall system, is a low-tech building system that can be used to quickly erect emergency shelters for disaster relief or, alternatively, to construct “do-it-yourself” homes within ... -
The Control, Communication and Fuzzy Logic of Architectural Production
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)Situated at the nexus of the environments of architectural design and architectural construction, this paper explores the relationship architects have with the building site. An architect’s primary output is the drawing, ... -
Parametric Algorithms to Extract Root Traits for Biology and Biomimicry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)The study of tree root systems has been introduced in a biomimicry framework for engineering design because ofcurrent problems with soil instability due to urbanization, climate change, and the subsequent increase of ... -
Sympoietic Pleksis: Theoretical and Practical Approaches from Textiles to Architecture
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)In the past decades, due to advancements in digital technologies, digital fabrication, and material sciences, there has been a theoretical and design shift. Prior to this, architectural discourse tended to prioritize and ... -
Dissemination Through Architecture Periodicals: Journeys of Architects From Turkey
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)In the twentieth century, architects’ mobility and tendency to document and publish their travels played an important role in disseminating an architectural culture. While architectural ideas were disseminated through ... -
Konrad Wachsmann’s Research Methodology: Designing a Contemporary Clip System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)As an architect and educator, Konrad Wachsmann’s life’s work demonstrates an architectural research methodology that uses prototyping and building as a means for testing ideas and theories in both his practice and teaching. ... -
African Architecture and Identity: The Nineteenth Century Asante Palace of Kumase, Ghana
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)Architecture and ritual interconnect to define cultural identity. In the traditional procession ritual of the Asantehene, the Asante king, into the palace, the Golden Stool, Kente cloth, and Adinkra symbols are a part of ... -
On The ‘Integral Canons’ of Frank Lloyd Wright in Ornamentation Amid the Modernist Expedient
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)Ornamentation, a jargon that has been relentlessly criticized and embraced during the Modernist movement of the twentieth century has, in substance, maintained its polemical occupation throughout architectural history. ... -
Pakistani Housing Sector: Evolution of Spatial Layout and Energy Consumption
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)Pakistan is facing the issue of energy shortage in the housing sector for the past two decades, with power outages throughout the country all year long. Increased rate of population growth and increased urbanization rate ... -
From Physiocracy to a New Productive Rural China
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)This paper examines the reception and impacts of Western ideas of the “agrarian” in China. In particular, it traces how the agrarian philosophy of the Physiocrats traveled across space and time and how this line of thinking ... -
“Subordination” In Modern Thai Architecture, 1960s-1980s: Case Studies of Crypto-Colonialism
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)This paper offers an examination of crypto-colonial discourse in Modern Thai Architecture from the 1960s tothe 1980s. It argues that the transplantation of western Modern architecture in Thailand initiated a neo-colonialcultural ... -
Laboratories of Environmental Knowledge
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)This essay narrates the story of three mid-to-late-century North American laboratories that produced architectural knowledge regarding the environment. For each laboratory, this essay describes the physical location of ... -
Matter, Materialization, and Biomaterial Futures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)The material landscape of architecture is shifting. Architects are increasingly engaging in material systems design, no longer relying on mere specifications to address the materialization of architectural form. All the ... -
Towards a Bioremediation Building Envelope System for Improved Air Quality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)According to the World Health Organization and the European Environment Agency, air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk today (European Environment Agency n.d.; Neslen 2018; United Nations Economic Commission ... -
Responsive Building Performance: A Case Study of Electrochromic Building Envelopes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)Building envelopes play an important role in the building performance of energy efficiency, thermal insulation, and visual comfort. Controlling solar radiation and daylight through responsive building envelope systems is ... -
Sentient Spaces: Interpreting Biofeedback into Environmental Systems to Mitigate the Severity of Physiological Symptoms in Anxiety Disorders
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)While anxiety disorders remain the most pervasive mental illness in the United States, few therapeutic solutions have incorporated strategies for dealing with both cognitive and physical symptoms. This is particularly ... -
From Physically Knitted Models to Calibrated Digital Simulations: A Workflow Based on the Behavior and Geometry of the Knitted Tensioned Structures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)The author of this paper proposes a workflow that is developed based on the behavior and geometrical characteristics of knitted textiles. The overall goal is to enhance the implementation of knitted tensioned structures ... -
Knitted Tensile Membrane Tensegrity Helix-Tower
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)This paper explores the development and research of knitted tensile membranes used within tensegrity structures. The research explores the historical context of tensegrity, as well as contemporary precedent projects. The ... -
Landscape And Buildings: Crafting National Heritage
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)In this paper, I discuss the role of architecture and cultural landscape in our continent’s national identity creation and nation-building processes. More specifically, I examine the creation of national heritage institutes ... -
Divergence in Architectural Research: ConCave Ph.D. Symposium 2022
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-03)This second volume of Divergence in Architectural Research brings together nineteen papers presented at the ConCave Ph.D. Symposium 2022, which took place at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia on April ...