Fibers and Fragments: Weaving local resources into the Arabian Gulf's modern material culture.
Considering the constraints of using solely local materials of the Arabian Gulf, this thesis explores two components that constitute a future construction practice: concrete in compression (mined from demolition sites) and carbon fibers in tension. The discovery of oil in 1932 accelerated the us...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150139 |