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One of the most interesting aspects of the garage is the way that objects are stored and displayed, inevitably reflecting the stories of people living in the adjacent home. At times this storage and display is carefully organized; more often, it is haphazard. This thesis explores the ways that storage and display in garages can influence the design of the garage itself, and, in particular, the design of garage walls. In tandem, it explores methods of developing individual design through collective input. A series of documented case studies, written narratives of those studies, and architectural representations are used to generate four behavioral types of the people who use garages. Two states emerge from these behaviors that reinforce the garage's position as an ambiguous space, one of storing objects and one of filtering objects. Each deal with the garage owner's position in life, fundamental use, and time. Throughout the thesis, design processes intentionally move between individual and group to find more thoughtful and varied insights on how stored things can inform the design of new wall configurations. These processes contribute to a set of design commentaries that speculate on changing conceptualizations of garage storage and display.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. 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