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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Land Material Geometry: Spline Construction with Invasive Species in a time of Water Crisis in the Colorado River Basin
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThis thesis speculates architectural systems that act in reciprocal and reparative relationship with the local environment and ecology rather than extractive means. It suggests material sourcing tamarisk, an invasive species in southwestern desert river systems that exacerbate strains on water availability, thus, removing the plant, yet maintaining its sequestered carbon as construction material. Active bending of this raw natural timber allows for a low tech means to approximate structural geometry for adobe construction.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Marshall Jr, William D.
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Ochsendorf, John A.
Rights
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- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Copyright retained by author(s)
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153870
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/153870