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Adaptive Living in the City

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Although living in the city can provide many benefits, it also provides many issues as well. Housing costs are constantly increasing, both physical and mental spaces are sacrificed, and our innate connection to nature is severed. These produce profoundly damaging effects on the human psyche and cause people to migrate from the urban to the suburban and rural areas. The solution is to design more efficient urban buildings that can actively adapt to its inhabitants' programmatic needs and utilizes wood, specifically cross-laminated timber, as its main material to reconnect with nature.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Architecture
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Architecture
Department dc:contributor.department
Architecture
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2016

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Lee, Arnold Ildoo
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Breitschmid, Markus
  • Emmons, Paul F.

Subjects

dc:subject × 4

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:8323
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/71661

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2026-07-22
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citation

Lee, Arnold Ildoo. Adaptive Living in the City. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71661