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Catalysis: A paradigmatic shift in the production of architectural morphologies
(2003) Andrews, Kenneth Alfred; Krumwiede, Keith
Through the advents of digital technologies we are witnessing a catalytic change in the technological processes and ideologies of building design and production. Digital design and manufacturing technologies have further advanced the capacity of manufacturing firms to mass produce building products and systems, but the paradigm shift is in the flexibility of these processes to mass customize. These new processes have also changed the system form of building production. Ideologies in manufacturing have changed from mass production of goods, to be stock pilled in speculation of use, to an ideology of "lean production" were technology has allowed production to occur closer to the point of demand, optimizing the supply and demand chains. This has the potential to catalyze the contemporary conditions of building production as the flexible notions of mass customization are overcoming the pit falls of mass production. It has become evident that with the advent of CAD/CAM technologies and the employment of the computer as a design tool there are powerful new ways to produce buildings. I believe that there is significant evidence that the digital revolution will continue to affect the design and productions processes as well as the morphology of the built environment Design processes, project organization, and information exchange have been the most effected as of yet, however there are still yet vast potentials for developments in the way buildings are "manufactured" and "assembled." This thesis researches, tests and exemplifies processes of building design and production that embraces the technological advancements produced by the digital/information revolution, and catalyses the limitations in the design and production process of the "mass produced" building processes that are employed today in an effort to free architecture from the confines of the architecture "catalog" of components.
Chapter 43: Un-steady states for Houston
(2003) Stockwell, David; Krumwiede, Keith
If the Montrose district's most salient character is cultural diversity, then the restrictions set forth by the City of Houston Planning Department's 'Chapter 42' have proven insufficient, in fact counterproductive to achieving the first publicly stated goal of those amendments: maintainence of neighborhood character.1 Ironically, what allowed the recent climax in diversity to accidentally emerge was the deterioration and subsequent inconsistent levels of maintainence/restoration of what began in the 1920's as a pristine monoculture of middle class bungalows. But as the low-density, single family home has become an inadequate response to Montrose's recent increase in market desireability, Chapter 42 and its resultant "townhouse" model threaten the district with yet a new promise of economic/cultural singularity. However, while embracing Houston's strategy of dwelling-type-as-market-product, it appears possible to write in to the code the previously-accidental ingredient for neigborhoods like Montrose: community emergence through propagation of difference. Thus, Houston's near-town neigborhoods could incrementally densify through means sensitive to local conditions, and simultaneously subvert the ever-present gentrification-oriented threat of monotony. 1Marlene Gaffrick of City of Houston Planning Dept. Goals of Chapter 42 as stated in telephone interview.
Cite Reading
(Rice Design Alliance, 2000) Stern, William F.; Krumwiede, Keith; Moore, Barry
Erasure
(2002) Young, Jessica Leslie; Krumwiede, Keith
Control of water in the metropolis has occurred most dominantly through methods of channelization, or moving water across the landscape, contributing to the current infrastructural organization of bayous. If the principle method of control favored the movement of water through the earth, the landscape could begin to behave and perform much differently and complexly. The project investigates a situation where speculative non-structural methods of flood control interface with governmental acquisition of private residential property in a strategy to increase open space for parks. The variable landscape under investigation is always in transformation, be it in terms of physical growth (accumulation of land), in terms of entropy, or in terms of political and economic parameters. In such fluid territories multiple futures are projected through variable states, rather than a fixed solution, in a system that never reaches a point of crystallization and never settles on one scale of effects and implications.
Escape
(1997) Doyle, Ann; Pope, Albert; Krumwiede, Keith; Wall, Alex
The site for this thesis is the peripheral zone of Dublin, Ireland. The project is driven by a hidden energy and the always present dream of escaping. It became an attempt to understand a city that presently remains invisible.
"Every text, after all, is a lazy machine asking the reader to do some of its work. What a problem it would be if a text were to say everything the receiver is to understand - it would never end." Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
(2002) Nikolov, Nikolai Panteleev; El-Dahdah, Fares; Krumwiede, Keith; Bulman, Luke
We all have the desire for architecture that is fleeting, that is not fixed, hard to capture, even impossible to master. And build. But we also have the desire, the impulse, to surpass that impossibility, to dwell in our imagination. In Umberto Eco's opinion, the only place where this is possible is fiction. In order to understand stories I need to construct their architecture and at the same time, in order to understand architecture I need to place a story in it. In this film the project pursues the desire for an animate architecture. Like the impossible desire of the would-be lovers in the play The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, this desire also proves impossible; the architecture is found in that impossibility. The movie has to suffer from the same malady of impossible yearning. This film is a lazy machine---asking the viewer to construct the space of the narrative.* *This dissertation includes a CD that is compound (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following applications: Windows Media Player.
Fluxbau architects
(1998) Sweebe, Michael Scott; Krumwiede, Keith
In a society where events and situations have become fast moving, temporary, and continually changing, whose various institutions have become de-centralized and fragmented, whose people have become independent, yet vastly interconnectsd, there has resulted an alternative method for architects to design buildings. As a way for architects and architecture to respond to, if not emulate, today's life patterns, all the thousands of pre-fabricated building parts are arranged together in often non-traditional configurations and with "inappropriate" connotations, to form moments at which events take place. Regarded as novelties, these cataloged found objects are tactically deployed through society, linked to events, and coagulate at moments where needed. The duration of these moments is determined by the event. As events move on, so does the architecture.
Green VoiD
(2002) Park, Jinyeob; Krumwiede, Keith
Green VoiD for unspecified purposes should be assigned. Almost any building is designed so that human beings can function efficiently for the purpose that the building was made for. This means the architecture of it is building-centered instead of human-centered. The concept of Green Void represents any place that humans can be the center of the space. The void is undefined space in terms of spatial program. In modern functionalist urban planning every site, every spot has a given specific meaning. Simultaneously industrialized and technologized urban is getting grayer and most of the city has been paved and covered by industrialized material, which is not any more what disfigures landscape but what has been pre-existing condition. What is called as landscape such as some trees, small lawn area surrounding buildings, and flower shelves have been added to buildings to intend to revitalize not merely buildings but also entire urban view, which actually is perceived visually. Sometimes it seems to just pretend to be "natural" which means that even though it exist, people even cannot be permeated into the nature, being just apart from it. The landscaping in urban area is only decorating the city to be shown "breathing", disguising its industrialized substance. Eventually city dwellers need potential space fabricated by themselves who are intelligent enough and self-convinced and drenched in the true nature differentiated from the fake one.
House loops: Upcycling the single-family house
(2001) Van Yarick, Todd Roy; Krumwiede, Keith
The thesis takes the position that the single-family house will soon move into a consumer cycle of disposability similar to that of products like single-use cameras. This analogy suggests a new house type that uses such material and acquisition cycles to its advantage, creating a service loop within it's very production and distribution. The result is an intelligent object that has the ability to recreate itself many times over by cycling its own material components. While following existing HUD guidelines governing their delivery, construction, and removal, these house units would also be mapped with a second (a third, a fourth...) life cycle for each component material. In addition, the building would be tethered to the original manufacturer and destined for resale, to be de-manufactured and upcycled into new house units or new material products at the end of each life.
Hybrid sponges
(2003) Murillo, Victor Manuel; Krumwiede, Keith
The ground in Houston is characterized by its low permeability rate. This condition, combined with the standard manner of building construction, is pushing the drainage system to the limits, increasing the possibility of having, more often, urban flooding. The project proposes a complementary tower system that helps to control urban floods. These towers will act as "hybrid sponges", an extended mechanism of the bayou that is going to attract water with artificial elements complementing natural systems. On the other hand they are going to create new events within a community that will be the platform for new alternatives of development; like new houses that will allow families to exchange their houses that are into the flood plain, creating a new social-urban phenomenon that will start as a extended mechanism of the bayou, but immediate after it is going to be extend to the community for the provision of totally desirable alternatives.
Introducing the LiQUiD house
(2001) O'Briant, Alex Kendall; Krumwiede, Keith
This thesis searches for a new understanding of domestic space by dividing the house into two concepts---Liquid and Solid. As the Solid House has evolved reluctantly over the past century, the Liquid House has experienced revolution after revolution. Defined by market economies, construction standards, pop culture, etc., the Liquid House is an amorphous, constantly shifting figure that overshadows its Solid counterpart. The rise in prominence of the Liquid House is marked by astonishing statistics: The average single-family house has doubled in size in fifty years as lots have grown 25% smaller and households have decreased 15%. As per capita expenditures have tripled and credit card debt has more than doubled, average closet space has increased seven-fold. This thesis explores the ways in which the Liquid House, perpetuated by these statistics, has come to dominate, giving rise to contradictions and paradoxes that simultaneously define and confuse the very essence of domestic life.
Living with topography
(2003) Lee, Philip; Krumwiede, Keith
Opportunities lay in areas not typically thought of in terms of design. Earth moving is not typically considered further than the initial site excavation. In Houston, earthwork is constant, often changing land incrimentally. The Port of Houston, ranking first in the United States in foreign waterborne commerce, and sixth in the world, requires the maintenance of its ship channel through regular dredging of sediments. Dredging is a reality of the Port of Houston and Disposal containment is its lifeline. Recently, three of the eight upland dredging disposal sites reached capacity and are now closed. Although the Port of Houston authority has proposed to raise the height of existing sites to increase capacity, this is only a short-term solution. Once a site reaches capacity, the land sits fallow indefinitely. The dredge material stays in the site perminently and would be difficult to develop or build on. They are also not publicly accessible, although it is quite apparent that they are used recreationally buy local residents. Treated as an engineering project, the two realities of waste site and recreation never meet. Redirection and design of existing earth moving and drainage techniques however, may allow for an operational switch from a permanent dredge storage system to a dry-bed removal system. Increasing disposal area capacity by moving material between sites would allow provisional and perhaps seasonal, public access to meet community demands such as a public park. The surrounding communities may benefit from living with dredge disposal area. A land use education area may serve as a showcase for a moving park that allows for the witnessing of fast geologic change as well as unlikely working relationships between the natural and the constructed.
mtP: An urban tactic
(2000) Morrow, Michael Miller; Krumwiede, Keith
The means of operating at the urban scale in the contemporary metropolis requires a reassessment of forces too often considered beyond the grasp of the architect and too often ignored by the planner. In Houston, the difficulty of engaging the machinations of private development may constitute the greatest challenge to the project of urbanism. The redevelopment of Midtown Houston, a high-traffic corridor situated between Downtown and the Texas Medical Center, issues a prompt to create alternative tactics for reshaping the city. Midtown Parking (mtP) is a system of eleven hybridized parking garages that exploits the ever-present need for more parking as a means to intervene in the climate of private development, organize existing potentials, and influence the reshaping of the district. mtP offers a way of rethinking how urbanity might emerge from the confluence of an existing private development paradigm and a desire to make coherent and vital urban form.
namebrandcorporation [venture based information/technology and new media startup incubator infrastructure]
(2001) Koehler, Peter J.; Krumwiede, Keith
Attempts during the late twentieth century to create an office/work space containing an appropriate amount of flexibility, combined with generic specificity (to make speculative developments economically viable) have failed. High-rise workplaces no longer work [there's no room for fun and just being there is a drag]. The nature of work is changing [the nature of work is change]. As early as 1993, 21% of Fortune 500 companies had telecommuting programs in place. By 2000,80% of all jobs in America will involve knowledge work. Today, 15% of active people work 50% of their time at home [or outside of what would be considered (traditional) office space]. Lines between formal and social programs within the workplace are beginning to blur. The product of these changes in the economic climate, coupled with the continued advancement/development of mobile and information technologies necessitate evolution of the workplace.
SuperModel Homes
(Rice Design Alliance, 2002) Krumwiede, Keith
The Image of Space/Space of the Image
(1998) McCormick, Craig Bryan; Krumwiede, Keith
Within the many conceptions of space are places where seemingly divergent mediums come together. "The Image of Space/Space of the Image" is a creative exploration into the physical and conceptual spaces of photography which exist among its loci of subject, lens, film plane, chemistry, enlarger, paper and viewer. By engaging these spaces, I seek an understanding of ways in which such underexplored aspects of the medium may generate new results in pictures.
The Shape of Sprawl
(Rice Design Alliance, 2002) Krumwiede, Keith

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