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King of Kings TechBed
The purpose of this project is to create a new king size bed that will stand apart from everything else on the market by incorporating a sound system, minifridge, and other Raspberry Pi driven technology into a bedframe ... -
Electric Motor Assisted Caster Cart
To take a pre-existing cart product provided by Hamilton Caster and retrofit it with as many off the shelf parts as possible, in order to prototype an electric motor assisted cart. This project will serve as a functional ... -
Battlebot
Battlebots are machines that have been popular to niche crowds over the past two decades. The show Battlebots first aired in the year 2000 and is still creating new episodes today. There are other similar robot fighting ... -
Automated Livestock Barn System
The objective of this project is to provide monitoring of livestock, automated animal care, and user safety. It has several systems to meet these objectives: fire detection, watering system, feeding system, temperature ... -
A Poetic Martian Habitat
In August 2013, I learned that anyone from all around the world could register and volunteer to be a member of first Red Planet Colonist project. I wanted to register the same night, but when I checked the website the ... -
Architectural Spaces Promoting Active Learning and Progressive Educational Delivery for the Primary School Student
Education in the United States is failing the next generation. Students today advance through their education without the skills or passion for learning they will need to be marketable in their careers. And, our current ... -
Urban Green Space Rejuvenation – The Use of Regenerative Landscape Design ThroughBiophilia to Connect Humans back to Nature.
“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction, stated American biologist and author” E. O. Wilson. The natural world has been altered over the past years, resulting in a ... -
Adapting to Climate Change through Architecture
An environmental crisis is unfolding around us. Our climate is continuously changing in dramatic rates. This paper explores the impact of climate change on the built environment, with the intent to find solutions for how ... -
Adaptive Design in Urban Flooding Conditions Case of Dar Es Salaam
Flooding hazards in urban areas is a worldwide problem. This is influenced by rapid urbanization, overpopulation, and the demand for a settlement that has exceeded the local housing stock. This leads to people living in ... -
The Intersection between Autonomous Vehicle and Built Environment
Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles are likely to replace the conventional vehicle in the near future throughout the world, however, the response and adaptation to this new change will vary in different countries ... -
Proposing a sustainable urban design by the introduction of a new multi-modal transportation system in the United States: A case study in Oxford, Ohio
Since the 20th century, considerable attention is paid in the United States to how sustainability applies in several mid-size American cities. Sustainable urban design leads to having a more convenient life, while improving ... -
Changing Our Food-Culture with Gastronomy and Architecture
Food, a necessity of life, brings cultures together and boosts tourism and communities across the world. Gastronomy, in this essay, is understood as how we think about, and engage food. We have lost our way in how we see ... -
Rethinking Shakhari Bazar: A Unique Urban Settlement of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shakhari Bazar is a three-hundred-year-old significant human settlement in the city of Dhaka, which as established during the Mughal period and later part of the British period. The Shakhari community, originating as a ... -
Influence of Technology on Atmosphere and Experience of Built Spaces
Technological advancements and its inexorable penetration in our ubiquitous life are constantly affecting our everyday experiences and behavioral patterns. Technology has a profound impact on nearly all aspects of contemporary ... -
Sustainable Integration Framework to Connect Displaced Communities with Host Nations
The term “displaced” refers to an individual or group of individuals who are forced from their home place because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. Hence, displaced people have had to leave their homes to another ... -
Reinstating Rohingya: Architecture for the wellbeing of humanity
Rohingya refugees are currently residing in the southeast side of Bangladesh, which is near Myanmar border. There have been numerous Rohingya refugees living in that area for a while, and over the time their number ... -
The White Slave Trade and the Yellow Peril: Anti-Chinese Rhetoric and Women’s Moral Authority
Despite the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s cultural preoccupation with white women’s sexual vulnerability, another phenomenon managed to take hold of public consciousness: “yellow slavery.” Yellow ... -
Understanding and Withstanding: Comparing Colombian and Mexican Responses to Migration Crises
In the late 2010s, deepening crises in Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have led to the migration of millions from their homes in pursuit of refuge and asylum. Received primarily by Colombia and Mexico, ... -
Refugee Haven or Dumping Ground? A Comparative Study of Displaced Persons in Central Asia During World War II
During World War II, Central Asia became a place for displaced people from across the Eastern Front. Displaced people included civilians and creatives from Ukraine and the western Oblasts, forced deportations, and ... -
Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census
This thesis surveys the 1936 All-Soviet Census and its importance to national image under Stalin as an explanation for its suppression shortly after completion. The census served as a vital data collection tool for the ...