Thesis Highlights

Domesticating Bigness: Speculating on a Future for Ecological Housing Infrastructures

This research studio delves into the challenge faced by the developing world, where most people live in rural and urban areas with contrasting conditions. It explores how Western urban ideals have disseminated these binaries and analyzes the limitations of models like the European and American cities, collage cities, landscape urbanism, and new urbanism in integrating housing with sustainable infrastructure. By creating an ecological prototype based on site, the studio seeks to develop an adaptive infrastructure that hybridizes sustainable systems and different types of occupancy. This research studio expands the role of architectural discourse by applying its expertise to better understand the intricate socio-environmental relationship between livable infrastructure and the buildings they serve. 

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Zaid Kashef Alghata