Thesis Students

Thesis Students

Hayden Cudaback Projected Completion 2020

Survival by Design: Living with Climate Change

Hayden is a current thesis student exploring the impacts of climate change on the built environment. His thesis seeks to bring deeper attention to the issue of climate change and how our cities might be rethought to negotiate a hot future.

Chris Reeh 2019

Generative Suburban Frameworks: Emerging Architect-Guided Optimization Workflows within Suburban Mass Production

This thesis explores emerging architect-guided optimization processes and their capabilities within suburban mass production, to create an algorithmic workflow that introduces a unique role for the architect and affords current construction speed coupled with design considerations that have been absent in normative residential design.

Grant Moehlenhoff 2019

Blend Space: Architectural Storytelling in the Age of Mixed Reality

This thesis explores how designers can reinvent architecture as vehicle for storytelling in the age of mixed reality. This work highlights a new hybrid form of architecture that partners the physical with the augmented and virtual. Through a language of dynamic interactions between architecture and users, contemporary narratives are expressed in an immersive and novel mixed reality experience.

Khaled Amir Benaida 2018

Force-Driven Weave Patterns for Shell Structures in Architectural Design

This thesis addresses three main problems: Firstly, understanding and analyzing the structural behavior of a shell structure through computation; Secondly, the creation of a weaving pattern of carbon fiber optimized for structural performance; the third part seeks to translate the digital model into fabricated prototypes. The results of this research show that force-flow derived patterns perform best. Consequently, force-flow is the information we should implement to create a more efficient force-driven weave pattern in shell structures.