Architecture Of Time
Exploring how architecture responds to, measures, and embodies temporal change, memory, and cyclical processes.
The “Timeless” Observatory: Timeless Architecture Rooted in Observation, Memory and Mayan Form
Where Mayan memory, flexible learning, stone, light and landscape come together in a timeless architecture of observation.
Time, Place, Memory: Urban Design for a Resilient Community in Kandahar
Time, Place, Memory uses urban design to shape a safe Kandahar community of housing, learning, care, culture and shared life for all widows.
The illusion of permanence: the design for disassembly framework
Traditional architecture’s focus on permanence overlooks the environmental constraints of climate urgency. Design for Disassembly (DfD) challenges this by planning buildings to be dismantled, reused, or relocated. This thesis investigates the ecological and socio-economic potentials of DfD, exploring how modularity and reversible connections shape future-oriented construction. Shifting focus from building to responsibly unbuilding redefines permanence for a sustainable lifecycle.
Architecture Of Time: Adaptive Architecture for a City in Constant Transformation
Adaptive architecture merges time, technology and memory in a modular system designed to evolve with changing cities and future human needs.
TIME FRAME explores adaptive architecture through flexible learning spaces, social courtyards, and a framework designed
TIME FRAME explores adaptive architecture through flexible learning spaces, social courtyards, and a framework designed to evolve with time.
Architecture as a practice of re-grounding and restoring the sensitivity of place
This dissertation counters how globalization and ocularcentrism erode spatial identity, proposing architecture as a memory-bearing palimpsest. The framework is applied to Krakow's Krowodrza district (Poland), where a historic river landscape, once shaping a green gardening area, is now a dense city centre. By revealing 'traces of (in)presence', the work revitalizes this eclipsed heritage, advocating an "architecture of re-grounding."
the architectural memoir of memory
Memory is not static; it evolves, fades, transforms, and survives through people, rituals, and places. Within the Parsi community, the Tower of Silence at Doongerwadi has long existed as a sacred landscape carrying generations of funerary traditions, collective remembrance, and cultural identity. However, changing urban conditions, declining engagement with ritual spaces, and the gradual disconnect between community and sacred landscapes have led to the fading of these memories and spatial pract
THE MESH
A place for discovery, experimentation and sharing It is here, facing one of the symbols of modern architecture, the MAC Niteroi by Oscar Niemeyer, that the Athenaeum emerges, as a ground movement in the seabed. The mesh appears in the bay as an artificial topography in the landscape, inspired by the mountains surrounding the city of Rio de Janeiro
John Sasser Architecture Portfolio
This portfolio showcases a selection of academic projects completed throughout my first three years at Mississippi State University's School of Architecture. The work reflects the development of my architectural thinking through a wide range of representational methods, including hand drawing, digital modeling, technical documentation, and photorealistic visualization. These projects demonstrate a commitment to thoughtful design and the continual refinement of conceptual and technical skills.
Moment of Stillness: Reimagining Industrial Futures Through Architecture, Imagination, and Regeneration
What if architecture could do more than minimise harm? What if buildings could actively repair the environments they inhabit, transforming the legacy of industrialisation into an opportunity for ecological and social renewal? Moment of Stillness begins with these questions, proposing architecture not as an object of permanence but as a living system capable of healing landscapes and reshaping our relationship with the planet.
ARCHITECTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE EXCAVATIONS
This thesis focuses on building an architecture that intervenes during archaeological excavations to mitigate the issue of lengthy excavation times that are not beneficial to the public. In addition, the architecture will act to protect the ancient ruins up to No.21 that are affected by the environment that occurs within the area.
The sensitive city
Grounded in architectural phenomenology, this article investigates the sensory foundations of urban experience, showing how the body, place, and memory shape the identity of the city beyond contemporary planning paradigms.
Slowness Drawings
The drawings in this thesis are not merely representations of physical spaces; they are tools for understanding how people experience the city through movement, pause, and care. Rather than documenting architecture alone, they capture everyday rhythms, moments of waiting, lingering, interaction, and rest that often go unnoticed in conventional urban analysis.
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