College of Design Theses and Dissertations
Original work in partial fulfillment of a graduate degree in the College of Architecture.
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Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Tree Canopy and Environmental Equity in Atlanta
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-28)With growing concerns about climate change, the benefits of urban tree canopy has gained a significant attention, leading to various efforts aimed at increasing urban tree canopy. Because urban tree canopy is often considered ... -
The Neo-Georgian Architecture of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-07)This thesis focuses on the methodologies evidenced in Edwin Lutyens’s Neo-Georgian architecture informing design dimensions of context, form, ornament, and planning, assessing the significance of these projects within his ... -
Stakeholder Alignment Strategies for Highway Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-31)The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and state DOTs across the nation seek private investments to leverage their shrinking financial resources. Involvement of the private sector in financing and delivery of ... -
Shifting Grounds of Architectural Practice: Boundary Conditions and Field Formations in the U.S. Design Professions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-22)During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the discourses and practices associated with the design of buildings and cities in the United States became increasingly differentiated and segregated according to ... -
Metropolitan Housing Market Restructuring and Implications for Poverty Deconcentration: The Effects of Foreclosures on the Spatial Distribution of Housing Choice Voucher Residencies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-12)The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the largest federally subsidized affordable housing program in the U.S., where one of the program’s goals is to deconcentrate poverty and alleviate the standard of living for ... -
Evaluating Supplier Diversity Development Programs (SDDP) From The Diverse Supplier Enterprise (DSE) Perspective In The Facility Management Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-04)Supplier diversity refers to the practice of creating opportunities for historically underutilized populations in the workforce and business arena. Supplier diversity encompasses initiatives specifically designed to increase ... -
Applying Tangible Augmented Reality in Usability Evaluation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-15)Feedback from users is an invaluable part of the product design process. Prototypes of varying levels of detail are frequently used to solicit feedback for attributes related to the physical and user experience aspects of ... -
Exploring Spatial Risk: The Impact of Visibility on ICU Mortality
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-04-20)The relationship between inpatient hospital layouts and a myriad of outcomes – noise, falls, patient experience of care, and mortality – continues to fascinate the clinical and architectural communities. Indeed, optimal ... -
The use of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) towards ultra energy efficient buildings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-01-03)This study talks about the energy efficient buildings from demand side of management as well as supply side of management too. It mainly covers feasibility and challenges of BIPV integration in the buildings. This study ... -
The relationship between energy use and quality of the facility management function in small to medium enterprises (SMEs)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-28)The hypothesis of this research study is that the level of energy consumption within a commercial building is associated with the quality of the facility management function. The constraints of this study are limited to ... -
Change order insurance policy (COIP) in the U.S. design and construction industry: Is there any likelihood of acceptance?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-15)Throughout the construction industry and for a long period of time, the issue of change orders poses as an undesirable problem in maintaining the efficiency and cost of construction projects. This research study will ... -
Seeing architectural photographs: space and time in the works of Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-15)This dissertation is about seeing architectural photographs. It begins by addressing a paradoxical aspect of some architectural photographs: they acquire a status as works of photographic art, yet are able to do so while ... -
A knowledge-based BIM exchange model for constructability assessment of commercial building designs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-24)At the early design stage of construction projects, designers often rely on general rules of thumb to make critical decisions about the geometry, construction systems, and materials used in their designs without fully ... -
Integrated Performance Based Design of Communities and Distributed Generation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-26)The vertically integrated utility market within the U.S. is undergoing rapid changes due to the rise of small-scale distributed power generation known as microgrids, which are local networks of power generation and ... -
EXPLORING ONLINE GROUP TRANSLATION: INTERFACE DESIGN FOR HUIJI TRANS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-30)This thesis presents research on the user needs and user activities in group translation, and efforts to design, prototype, and user test the interface of the web-based group translation product 灰机 TRANS (HuijiTRANS). -
Aiding Lower-limb Amputees in Traversing Uneven Terrain through Product Design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-21)The majority of lower-limb amputations are not caused by trauma or cancer, but rather by vascular diseases brought on by Type 2 Diabetes. Many of these patients must have a limb amputated because they have led a sedentary ... -
A SMARTPHONE APPLICATION THAT INFORMS WEIGHT SHIFTING BEHAVIOR TO PROMOTE TISSUE HEALTH
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-18)One of the most persistent problems affecting wheelchair users is pressure ulcers. These are ulcers that wheelchair users develop in areas of constant pressure or interruption of blood flow to a localized area. Approximately ... -
Parking policies for resurging cities: An Atlanta case study
(Geomrgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-01)Parking policies lie at the intersection of land use and transportation. Although often overlooked by traditional planning and engineering methods, parking can serve as an amplifier for an area’s success or failure. The ... -
The impact of occupant modeling on energy outcomes of building energy simulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-02)The reported performance gap between predicted and real building energy consumption has drawn keen attention from the building simulation community and related stakeholders. Alongside other research efforts to identify, ... -
Landscape anthropometrics: A multi-scale approach to integrating health into the regional landscape
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-20)This research creates a consistent, scalable approach for incorporating health considerations into regional land planning. A prototypical framework is presented for the Atlanta region. Determinants of healthy places from ...
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