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• Master of Arts (MA) in Adaptive Reuse, a one-year+ program
• Master of Design (MDes) in Interior Studies / Adaptive Reuse, a two-year+ program
• Master of Design (MDes) in Interior Studies / Exhibition + Narrative Environments, a two-year+ program
Both programs take an innovative and progressive approach to addressing design issues intrinsic to the reuse and transformation of existing structures. US News & World Report and Design Intelligence have both ranked RISD’s Interior Architecture programs among the top in the country.
Each MA candidate produces a final project that begins with a research component in the fall and evolves into a studio/design project in the spring. MDes candidates demonstrate competency through self-directed Degree Projects that include a seminar on theory, a research component and a studio component. Each DP focuses on the transformation of an existing structure of their choice in the city of Providence. All MA and MDes candidates also participate in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition , a large-scale public show held annually.
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Theses from 2023 2023
the people's food project , Grace Barrett
Kala in my Moholla - art in my neighborhood , Priyata Bosamia
Nature as Material, Time as Tool , Chuchu Chen
FROM VAULT TO PLATFORM (Democratizing Museums through the Lens of the Metaverse)) , Zhaoyang Cui
Intensifying the Experience of Contemporary Art , Wanjin Feng
Manifesto of Poor Images: Re-imagine Guggenheim in the Post-digital Age , Mengning He
Adding Subtraction: Wasting Time in Space , Daeun Kim
NEW CHAPTER , Gunju Kim
A Cloud Above , Jiwon Kim
Greening Seoul : A New Toolkit for Adaptive Reuse , Woojae Kim
A.R. Futuristic Scenario in Seun , Yookyung Lee
Eviction to Placement: Rethinking the current supportive housing systems for hidden homeless families , Fang-Min Liou
The Mobile Senior University , YOUSHURUI LI
making pla(y)ces: softening the city through play , Shivani Pinapotu
Interstice , Shravan Rao
Overlooked Modi Vivendi , Natalia Silva
Chinese tea ceremony spirit revival , Hongli Song
Nurturing Haven: A Safe Place for Single Mothers , Meng Su
A Day Stood Still , Yuting Sun
Imaginatorium for children with visual impairment , Xueyun Tang
Reconcile Liminality , Zefeng Wang
Illusion of Consumption, Architectural Rebellion: Unraveling the Maze of Consumption , Xinjie Xiang
Beyond Burial - Transforming Death: A New Ritual of Farewell and the Ecological Return of the Body to Nature , Chang Xie
Interactive Architecture - Intervention of Virtual Business on Commercial Space , Yihao George Xu
On the Power of Attainable Architecture Community Engagement and Interaction through Architecture: A New Approach to Architectural Exhibitions , Jianing Yang
Glowing Under the Bridge—A Healing Space for Wounded Souls , Ruier Zhao
Moving Narration: A journey through history , Yincheng Zhu
Finding Psychological Healing in College Settings , Dici Zou
Theses from 2022 2022
Notes in improvisation : Spatializing Black Identity through music , Esther Akintoye
Dying differently: designing a death-oriented psychedelic treatment center , Grace Caiazza
Blurred lines : Border crossing between Macau and Zhuhai , Weiwei Chen
Regenerative residences: shrinking stress levels in the sky , Peter de Lande Long
Adaptive reduce: forging architectural futures through degrowth , Erika Kane
Unfolding embodied experience: a process-driven immersive exhibition design model , Mooa Seongah Kang
Block Chain Home , Jonggun Lee
Last sunset : design to alleviate social isolation for Chinese elderly , Linghui Li
Rebuilding Collective effervescence : a "Ballroom" for post-pandemic revelry , Di Ma
Re:Connection: exercises in unplugging and mindfully reconnecting , E. J. Roseman
Dear City, give me some space; creating space for ephemeral forces in a city , Abinaya Sivaprakasam Thamilarasan
From invisible to visible: the third wave/way of intervention for Dashilar , Jiali Tian
Endless construction : occupant activism and authorship , Jiayi Wang
Beyond Spectacle : parametric design to life in space , Ding Xu
Design for designers : An incubator for young designers to grow , Jiajie Yang
The Cthulhu Journey : storytelling through an architectural immersive experience , Rui Zhang
Theses from 2021 2021
Posthuman ecologies , Christine Chang
Loneliness / Togetherness : Interiority and connection under isolation , Huaqin Chen
Space between memories: pause , Young Jae Cho
Cultural acupuncture: decentralization and deocratization in Chinese exhibition design , Ruohan Duan
Adaptive reuse as evidence of scientific progress: recontextualizing a space for growing knowledge , Kayci Gallagher
Reclaiming modern architecture: an urban visual narrative of Kuwait City , Yara Hadi
Unraveling the living: reframing cramped housing as a social living , Dong-zoo Han
Beyond pasta: understanding Italian American culinary culture in Federal Hill , Chufan He
Going back , Zhiyi Hilary He
Augmented city , Xing Huan
Woven healing: reimagining the rural health center , Mahasweta Jayachandran
Living · Sharing · Connecting : rebirth of Longchang Apartments Heritage Community , Linhong Jiang
Migrating architecture: vernacular futurism , Yichu Jiang
The second home: breaking the cycle of lonely death , Woohee Kim
Reinforcing connection within collective housing: a new vision of Red Steel City , Guangyi Niu
Ascents and descents in the 21st Century: restoring Chand Baori , Japneet Pahwa
Nossa quadra, nossa historia: the power of collaborative and communal outdoor spaces as a tool for belonging & agency , Rebecca Maria Pepl
Terminal: through the "windows" of a Tram Car Museum , Yuyi Si
Ritualizing of space in the 21st century: fostering of communal identity through celebration of Tamil culture , Mridula Swaminathan
Sensory refreshment: TCM reconsidered , Ni Tang
Remember me: how we can modify the home for people with dementia , Wenjin Wang
The retrieval of memory: holding time in the Shanghai gasometers , Liman Wei
Fostering cultural understanding: mirroring ways of living in Providence, RI, USA and Beijing, PRC , Jiarui Tina Wu
The future of Beijing urban courtyards , Zhuoqi Xu
Remembering Chinatown: a fusion of food, identity, & memory , Robert Yang
Overflowing boundaries: competition and mutualism in urban villages , Chen Zhang
Rural acupuncture: carefully introducing tourism within an underground village , Shangyun Zhou
Theses from 2020 2020
Lacunae in the urban landscape , Meriem Aiouna
Melting away - Ilha Formosa , Hao-Chun Chang
Behind appearance : hidden dimensions in the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee , Ning Ding
Realistic utopia : utopian architecture exhibition at Arcosanti , Xiao Fang
Contextualize , Jiaai He
Community pop-up galleries : the instruction manual , Mary Iorio
Living under surveillance , Fan Jia
Urban memory : Beijing City wall ruins reconstruction & exhibition , Yuan Jin
Dialogue across time : Atlanta, 1996 and 2020 , Qianyu Liu
Exploration and autonomy : wild children in the city , Xiaojie Li
Getting closer : exploring re-contextualization in exhibition , Yiran Mu
Generating tension : memorial of sexual slavery , Mary Park
Ciudad informal : a new model for urban living , Rebeca Isabel Peña Reinoza
The milky way : agritourism on a Chinese dairy farm , Wanyue Qiao
Reactivating street life : fostering more communal interaction in Longtang , Ziyang Qiu
Banoo-Serai : an all women sanctuary , Kimia Rahnavardi
Envisioning work : an autism friendly and anxiety free office , Naixin Ren
Re-connect , Xin Ren
Creating a safe haven : a study on coastal resilience in a time of climate change & sea-level rise in the Philippines , Maria Carla Victoria M. Sebastian
Unite the divided : the transition between death and life , Qing Shi
Practicing a senior living , Siyu Shuai
Re-source : Re-source your resources , Raquel Swartz
Lived-in grassland : nomadic architecture in the nomadic community of Mongolia , Linxi Wang
Living and alive : homeless shelter design , Zixu Wang
Re-occupation : buildings, ideology and decolonization in Northeastern China , Ziyu Wei
The ultimate task of public libraries : introducing architecture as pedestal , Elaine Wu
Reality behind beauty : Hayao Miyazaki's perspective of human and nature , Tianyang Wu
Individuality : enhance living in Shenzhen's urban village , Lanting Zhong
Theses from 2019 2019
[Super] structure : expanding the network / reclaiming the path , Anna Albrecht
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Thesis - Interior adaptation within the existing built environment. A comparative study of restoration, preservation and adaptive reuse
This thesis explores the fundamental aspects of interior architecture regarding the existing built environment. It focuses on the necessity of restoration, preservation and adaptive reuse as possible solutions when approaching a new project concerning an existing building. Through the study of books, current journals and relevant projects, a universal understanding is formed about approaches that can be used to react to the existing built environment. Also discussed are the more challenging situations that can arise, such as how to deal with heritage, contentious places or the concept of memory of place. Examples and case studies are worldwide to appeal to a greater audience. The thesis outlines and defines possibilities for repairing, restoring, and protecting the existing built environment while keeping them practical in the current time. Before concluding the thesis, a design project, done in conjunction with the thesis, is discussed and explores how the different approaches and interventions discussed can be used to react to a site based on the specific site’s history, value and intangible qualities.
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Ehsan Masoud
Changing and repurposing existing buildings for their continued use was quite common in the past and structurally safe buildings were adapted to meet new functions and needs. In modern conservation theory, Adaptive Reuse is an important means of preserving cultural heritage. The main question is what are the priorities and shortcomings of adaptive reuse theoretical references within interior architecture based on comparative study with Nara Document parameters. The research method of this study is qualitative, with logical argument as a strategy. The priorities were studied and then the most important weaknesses and drawbacks of these approaches to Adaptive Reuse were analyzed in a comparative study with the Nara Grid by 32 semi-structured interviews with experts in the fields of Architecture, Interior architecture and conservation. The results show four main Adaptive Reuse priorities extracted from the reviewed literature: Host Space Function, Programmatic Approach to New Use, Tech...
Inas Abdelsabour
Existing old buildings were considered as the city’s culture reminder. By the time, they could be kept via adaptation for contemporary usages. That adopting considered the context of the environmental, social and economic idea of the prior eras, related to the building’s life cycle, that guided by local solutions. This paper started with the adaptation process definition with an evaluation of a number of building’s state to bring out the different potential outcomes for discussing the future adaptation possibilities, especially that known as “alterations and extensions”. Therefore, by rethinking of the new addition’s integration into the heritage buildings will support the heritage value and fit new functions to present innovative design process approaches in the field of heritage preservation’s design. By analysing some case studies, the study achieved some criteria for designing the alterations and extensions by making them an effective component in the design of old heritage buil...
Ramola Lewis
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Natascha Meuser
The architectural monuments of every society form a part of its cultural heritage and must be preserved for future generations. Today this process involves a range of complex challenges. The conservation of monuments entails not only assessing and evaluating those monuments but also engaging in a wide range of public relations activities. The aim of this course is therefore to help students gain a good working knowledge of architectural fundamentals as well as architectural history and theory. As such, this lecture series is divided into three broad modules: • History and Theory • Methods and Tools • Concepts and Projects During the course students will undertake a great deal of research, developing their own questions and viewpoints and gaining academic insights. They will work their way through academic tasks and apply what they have learnt to investigate a research question of their own choice.
REDUCE, REUSE, RETHINK AND PRESERVE: THE REUSE OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AS A STRATEGY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND HERITAGE APPRECIATION (Atena Editora)
Atena Editora
This article seeks to explore adaptive reuse as a form of connection between the preservation of architectural and urban heritage and the sustainability of the built environment. Reuse in architecture can make the use of spaces more effective while preserving memory, as new life is given to buildings that have potential for use. Furthermore, bringing new function to an underutilized or disused historic building means avoiding complete demolition and less need for construction. Historic buildings represent much more than simply a physical construction, but also something that brings identity and character to the city and serves as a witness to the history of the place. Adaptive reuse is considered a preservation strategy; however it is only effective if it brings social fruition to the building. In this study, the category of reuse represents a new way of conceiving architecture in the 21st century. In this context, we discuss the reasons that make the reuse of architecture and urban ambience a viable alternative, in many cases, for the sustainable preservation of heritage and for the best use of a potential built environment. The criteria that make adaptive reuse an effective strategy for both environmental sustainability and heritage preservation are also presented and discussed. To be considered sustainable, adaptive reuse must preserve the historical value of the building and, at the same time, holistically bring social, economic and environmental advantages to it.
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Interior architecture is mainly concerned with adapting existing buildings to new uses and requirements. While determining the extent of intervention, the historic and cultural background of the building plays a very important role. Therefore in adaptive reuse, before starting to develop design proposals, buildings of cultural significance need to be analyzed carefully in order to determine architectural and spatial potentials. This paper aims to evaluate the process and results of a design studio, which was realized during 2014-2015 Fall Semester in the ITU Department of Interior Architecture. The main purpose of the studio experience was to create adaptive reuse proposals for a historic commercial building by focusing on the theme of “functional unity”. In the first phase of the study, course program was organized in three basic steps: analyzing spatial potential, determining compatible use and developing project proposals. At the end of every step there was a jury to evaluate each phase. Every step had its own priorities and criteria for the jury. After evaluations project proposals were classified according to their main foci as well as advantages and disadvantages of different approaches in terms of functional unity. As a result it was observed that in historic buildings there are different ways of maintaining functional unity based on the intention of the intervention. While identifying compatible use or uses for a historic building, functional unity needs to be evaluated as one of the basic design criteria in order to retain its cultural significance. This is mainly because a historic building can fully reveal it’s potential only if it is experienced and evaluated as a whole.
Esra Ozkan Yazgan
In this study, the Museum of Innocence, a personal museum fictionalized in parallel to Orhan Pamuk's novel of the same name, is examined in context of adaptive re-use on the basis of its adaptive reuse fiction directing the transformation of the Brukner Apartment. By reason of the fact that it is built both in architectural and literal fields collaterally, the Museum of Innocence has an unusual transformation story created within the intersection of fact and fiction. On that sense, as promoting an alternative way to reuse a historical house, it sets a unique example to discuss the transformation and evolution of residential environment and its sustainability within the urban context. Through the study, the transformation process of the Brukner Apartment and the dynamics of this transformation are discussed. Focusing on the method of the transformation and the content of the new usage, creation of the adaptive reuse fiction in collaboration of architecture and literature through an interdisciplinary dialog and configuration of the content of the fiction to be based on everyday life practices are highlighted. Analyzing the new spatial situation of the Museum of Innocence, success of the adaptive re-use fiction to ensure the sustainability of urban, cultural and social structure is exposed.
Jack Chongbut
Winsor house has a long standing continuous history for 100 years. It presents a unique setting especially with its architectural styles, its land use components and spatial patterns reflecting the change of their living’s patterns. The characteristics of the house is generally crowed, placed in rows and separated by narrow walkways; some ancient style wooden houses. This report is focused on the cultural significance of Winsor house and proposing a conservational plan of this house and contributing to the general understanding of its value and how to conserve the house for cultural tourism. There is need for a conservational plan to be presented to the community, local government, private and government sectors in order to set a conservational plan. These conservational and developing plans should avoid adverse impacts on the authenticity and physical aspects of cultural heritage. Clearly, there is a need to conserve its cultural heritage attractions. And this affords the opportunity to enhance tourism’s economic contribution to a community and a country. Therefore, these conservational and developing plans can be the tool to create a future in which a stable residential core is enlivened and sustained by a widespread system of retail activities, supported by essential infrastructure and community facilities and made more attractive by well-maintained open spaces and monuments.
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To REFORM is to improve the systems already in place for our generation and the generations to come.
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20 Thesis topics related to Residential Design
A residence is one of the first projects any architecture student is asked to design as part of the curriculum , as a residence is one of the first examples of architecture we all see and so many of us are fortunate to live in. Residential projects may seem very easy to comprehend and design, but the various types of residences that are in use today and the different user groups they are targeted towards make it a vast topic, something that requires huge amounts of research to design.
Choosing a residential project as a thesis topic in the final year of B.Arch. would be like coming full circle – applying all the knowledge you have gained in the last five years on the very first project typology you were taught to design.
So, here are 20 thesis topics related to residential typology that any architecture student can take up.
1. Mixed-Use Buildings | Residential Design
With the global pandemic forcing people to stay confined in their houses, the development of mixed-use buildings with residential, commercial and office spaces all in one place will help with similar circumstances in the future. A student would need to do extensive research on how to properly combine all different places and the purposes they serve to create a building that fulfils functionality and is also aesthetically pleasing.
Mixed-use buildings as a thesis topic will help a student when they start working because of its huge potential as a future trend in architecture.
2. Vertical Housing
With the increasing population and declining availability of open land, vertical housing is one of the best solutions available to tackle the requirements of the current and future generations. Vertical housing is residential buildings where architects arrange spaces vertically instead of horizontally, to create more units in a smaller footprint.
These buildings also contain community areas and green spaces interspersed with the residential units to encourage people to be more social and not stay confined in their high-rise apartments .
Using this as a thesis topic will be extremely beneficial as there are high chances of designing similar projects when students start professionally practising after getting their degrees.
3. Community living | Residential Design
One of the first markers of human beings settling down and becoming civilized is when they started living in communities with individual houses and common spaces for gathering. Since then, human beings have always preferred to live in a society.
Be it apartment complexes with high-rise buildings , or housing estates with horizontal, community living in urban areas are a topic that can be taken up as a thesis project related to residential use. Community living will help one understand how to design spaces that can be used by different people to live together in harmony.
4. Row Houses
Row houses are defined as a series of houses connected through common sidewalls. They are a great way to build individual houses in smaller areas and with lesser materials, making them cheaper.
Row houses might already be in use in the USA and European countries , but they have huge potential in third-world countries and in places like India where there is a space crunch issue, making them a good thesis topic under the residential typology.
5. Tiny Houses | Residential Design
These are houses that have a total area of less than 400 ft 2 or 37 m 2 and are a good alternative to traditional houses when the available open land is smaller than average. Tiny houses have a wide variety of design considerations and this leads to innovative spaces that are multifunctional and furniture that is multi-purpose.
Compacting a whole house in an area that is less than 400 ft 2 is a challenge that will help thesis students in designing residential areas in the future, as the availability of free land is reducing every day.
6. Shipping Container Homes
20 ft or 40 ft steel containers that have been used to carry different types of goods in ships can be used as a readymade or prefabricated skeleton to build a house. These homes are a good way to re-purpose shipping containers that have been abandoned or thrown away and are easier and faster to build as the exterior structure is already available.
The containers can be stacked vertically or horizontally to create everything from tiny houses to mansions. Shipping container homes are an intriguing and unique residential thesis topic for students.
Yurts are portable houses consisting of a latticework of wood or bamboo covered by a round tent and have been the traditional houses for many tribes in central Asia, especially in Mongolia. Yurts are a unique aspect of vernacular architecture that can be adapted in different climates around the world with the use of more modern materials like steel for the latticework and insulating fabrics for the tent.
Yurts as a residential thesis topic will give students a different look in a sustainable and vernacular approach to designing.
8. Earthships | Residential Design
Pioneered by architect Michael Reynolds, Earthships are a type of passive solar earth shelter that is built with both natural and up-cycled materials. These residential units are structures built on the principle that the six human needs of energy, garbage management, sewage treatment, shelter, clean water and food can be met through environmentally sustainable building design.
Earthships are intended to be simple, “off-the-grid” homes with minimal dependence on fossil fuels and public utilities and can be constructed by people with little building knowledge. The scope of Earthships as self-sustainable and ecological single-family residences is huge and something that can be taken up by architecture students for their final year thesis.
9. Cob Houses
These are houses built of clay, sand and straw that are recyclable and non-polluting when demolished. Cob houses are inexpensive, energy-efficient houses suitable for hot climates that are also extremely durable and earthquake-resistant.
Even though these types of houses have traditionally been user-built, an architect’s perspective will help in enhancing its ecological and sustainable features and lead to better planning and usability of spaces. Cob houses should be explored as a thesis topic in the residential typology.
10. Cave houses | Residential Design
Caves served as the very first human dwellings – they served as a shelter against natural calamities and wild animals. In recent years, cave dwellings have made a comeback, in the form of carving contemporary houses inside existing caves. These houses contain contemporary elements like doors and windows, modern electrical and bathroom fittings and also connections to public utilities and “off-the-grid” options for the same.
Designing cave houses is a challenge because one has to carve out different rooms in accordance with the inside of the cave and major changes cannot be done to the structure of the cave. Cave houses provide the option to utilize existing natural shelter formations instead of disrupting green areas, and hence are a good residential topic for the thesis as they are becoming more popular.
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Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
The revitalization of lalibela’s heritage site through the establishment of a new visitor center.
Endale Tesfay Follow
Date of Submission
Spring 5-7-2024
Degree Type
Dissertation/Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Architecture
Architecture
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Dr. Marietta Monaghan
Revitalizing the heritage site of the rock-hewn church of Lalibela is counted as revitalizing a city because the site is the biggest heritage site. It is found in the Amhara region of north Ethiopia, and the properties were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978. Eleven churches were found at the site, and all of them were carved out of the living rock in the 12th century, not constructed traditionally. The churches are grouped into three and connected by a walking trail, tunnel, and trench. Groups of churches have interior and exterior spaces, and their floors, roofs, walls, columns, windows, and doors were formed from monolithic rocks. Out of eleven churches, the Bete Giorgis church is recognized as the eighth wonder of the world, and the Bete Medhani Alem church is recognized as the biggest rock-cut church in the world. This functional and huge heritage site has a rugged landscape, and it is old and undeveloped. While the churches have been providing service, have been visited by foreign and local visitors, and have generated income, the income only covers the administrative costs of the churches, with no surpluses for further development. It is not easy to revitalize this huge heritage site with a single project. How can we revitalize this kind of big heritage site? My thesis will get the answer to this question.
It is possible to revitalize the whole heritage site in the long run by starting to revitalize a specific area of the site. What would be best to do with the selected size for the heritage site with many problems to revitalize the entire area in the future? It should be a visitor center. Suppose the visitor center is built first. In that case, the heritage site will be developed and revitalized quickly because the visitor center increases the number of visitors by many times and generates income.
The thesis revitalization design will be a new visitor center, and it will have an access road to connect with Bete Georgis. The thesis design will be supported by historical research on the Lalibela churches and other literature reviews precedent studies and analyses. The thesis design will consider the Lalibela church’s exterior shape, interior design, structure, drainage system, and 2D drawing and patterns.
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The thesis design will consider the Lalibela church's exterior shape, interior design, structure, drainage system, and 2D drawing and patterns. ABSTRACT Revitalizing the heritage site of the rock-hewn church of Lalibela is counted as revitalizing a city because the site is the biggest heritage site. It is found in the Amhara region of north ...
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