Selected WAAC Master's Thesis Projects
See the list below for links to selected WAAC thesis projects from the past five years. All thesis books are hosted online at VT ETDs.
(Page image from (Un)Making Places by Eli Perez.)
2023
- Concrete and Comfort, Urban Firehouse // James Cooke [M.Arch]
- Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: The Rio Grande Arrival/Departure Shelter // Angelica Gaite [M.Arch]
- Living the Downtown: The Era of New Neighborhood Cities // Prathamesh Rewandkar [Urban Design]
- Shipyard to Stoneyard: The Capitol Stones at the Intersection of Material and Memory // Andrew Ashcraft [M.Arch]
2022
- Ourhouse: Gender-Inclusive Student Housing // Astha Bhavsar [M.Arch]
- Bridging the Gap: Addiction Recovery // Rachel Hamilton [M.Arch]
- Fostering Homefulness // Shelby Pollack [M.Arch]
- Making Space: Refuge to Home // Brittney Sooksengdao [M.Arch]
- Casual Death in Contemporary Cities // Kennard Taylor [M.Arch]
- More Than Housing: Re-defining Affordable Housing // Erika Toscano Jaramillo [M.Arch]
2021
- Shelter to Habitat // Emily Ashworth [M.Arch]
- Re-Imagining Urban Dwelling: Active Family Living in the City // Emily Broadwell [M.Arch]
- One for All : A Capitol Proposal // Margaret "Maggie" Dunlap [M.Arch]
- Children's House, Old Town North Alexandria Montessori School // Behnaz Nozari [M.Arch]
- (Un)Making Places: Supportive Housing As Human Infrastructure // Eliezer "Eli" Perez [M.Arch]
- Rethinking Dead Mall: Reconsidering an American Vacant Mall Site as a Seed for Re-Growth // Md Abu Baker Siddique [M.Arch]
2020
- A Deep Breath of Art // Sara Alkhatib [M.Arch]
- Healing and Reintegrating in the City: Urban Infill as a Sanctuary for Jane Doe // Sharon An [M.Arch]
- Developer by Design // Brett Cline [M.Arch]
- Low Carbon Architecture: New Approach Toward Sustainability in Relation to Existing Buildings // Mahsa Hedayati [M.Arch]
- Cohabiting Third Place: Integrating Natural Hydrology with Healing Architecture // Sumayia Binte Samad [M.Arch]
- Home is Here: Community and Health Center // Juan Pablo Urey Fernandez [M.Arch]
2019
- An Elemental Study in Conservation: A Ceramic Artists' Retreat on Virginia's Rappahannock River // Stephanie Burcham [M.Arch]
- Taking Root // Macy Carman-Goeke [M.Arch]
- In Defense of a "Third Place": How Reassembling the Boundaries of an Urban Military Installation Can Maintain Security While Uniting the Community // Peter Deluliis [Urban Design]
- The Troupes of Theatre // Ryan Jacobs [M.Arch]
- Cultivating Curriculum: How Investing in School Grounds, the Streetscape and Vacant Land as Urban Ecosystems Can Address Food Security, the Community and Institutions of Public Education // Karen McAllister [Urban Design]
- Paz Juntos // Mario Rodriguez Aguilar [M.Arch]