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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Building re-use"”.
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Fixing the Box
My Thesis addresses one of the staples of suburban American development for the past half century, the ubiquitous Big Box store in the strip mall shopping centers and the acres of surface parking lots built around them. With thousands of these stores built, many are being abandoned by their tenants …
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Disastrous Opportunities: Designing for post-hurricane adaptivity using low carbon construction methods on the destroyed site of Belle Creole, St Martin: a construction research center
Disasters are perceived as singular apocalyptical events that rely on vernacular shifts that are often too slow to adapt before the next hurricane hits. This thesis redefines hurricanes as an opportunity to innovate in new ways of building that take advantage of the ensuing scarcities and …