Maker space and urban farm, combined, with an educational component. 

Robert Venturi, not really tacky.

I'd suggest combining unexpected programmatic elements: 

* homeless shelter + high-end restaurant

* post office + bar

* church + sex shop

* car repair shop + liquor store

Farnsworth, House or Submarine? Pruitt Igoe, a Rush to Judgement? Increased Mental Illness in Occupants of Brutalist Buildings.

Volunteer love this one - Farnsworth, House or Submarine?

is this the inspirational image?

i think
Robert Venturi, not really tacky.
would be better as

venturi is almost alright

Building a better Brunch:  A Spatial Analysis

Housing for Hikikomori's and their Waifus

Catrik Meowmacher: Purrametrics and the City

Learning from HGTV

Bob the Builder and/or Peter Eisenman: a Practical DIY Deconstructionism and Suburbs in History to Memory - a Critical Projection of Deck Building and Paper Architecture

what is concept?

The fool proof method to being sane as possible while completing your thesis.

1- Determine the A-list or "reach" offices where you want to be employed and look at the work. Identify styles or trends (corporate neo-skyscrapers, co-working spaces, new urban space types,,etc).

2- Determine your "safeties" and look at the work they have completed. Look at the really messy stuff that no one wants on the website (eg. Toilet renovations at the local community college).

3- Find an appropriate "crisis" that is shared between the A list and the safeties (Plumbing chases and building circulation and public space).

4- Make a thesis that is so compelling that the A-list will take note ("Humble Spaces: Public Infrastructures for Private Bodily Functions").

The really important steps:

A- Is this a history (I am looking at how the historic relationship between lobby spaces and elevators creates "awkward moments," which require civil behavior that is similar to urban space)?

B- Is this a design (Restrooms are often overlooked as public spaces. This thesis explores how these spaces may be designed to interact with other "common spaces"  to address issues of of identity, gender and body that are commonly seenbon the street at the microscale of the skyscraper floorplate)?

That decision will help to push the format. Book versus drawings, drawings on a wall, drawings in a book, text formatting, etc. Is there a standard format in the school or program? Point being, imagine the finished product and let that help to frame deliverables.

Make a calendar of deliverables for yourself and be honest. If you aren't going to make that evocative section of the restrooms being used in 2 days, don't write that down as a deadline. And figure in time for corrections (shit happens).

The last point (which is the most important) is that you should love your topic. A thesis is a monster that will beat you up if you allow it to do so, and a topic you are not invested in is one way to head down the path of pain. 

And remember, the goal isn't to just make pretty renderings, but to make the A-list think of something they have always seen, just not "that way."

Gas House - Gas Chamber | Glass House mash-up.

a museum for cars that looks like a car.

The Brady/Libeskind Conundrum: Split-Level Raunch in an Epoch of Anthropocene Obscenity

Waterproof cardboard boxes, a housing solution for student-loan debtors. There is the Bauhaus style (flat roof), the parametric (the sides lean in and out) the brutalist (really heavy cardboard with ice-pick holes for windows), and so forth.

You guys are coming up with great ideas, here! I'm LOLing.

Patrik Schumacher, from his OpEd here: My idea is to focus on architecture’s communicative capacity via the re-foundation of architectural semiology as agent-based parametric semiology, utilizing a generalized crowd modelling – life process modelling – to explore how agents with frame-dependent behavioural scripts can be coordinated via information-rich environments. 

I feel like this is a longer explanation of the thesis idea I posted above: Giant Tubes: The Redundancy of Circulation in the Networked City.

^ you had me at Giant Tubes.

Parametricism 3.0

Morphology of Crumpled Paper as a Systemic Design Basis for Architecture

Wooden Dodecahedrons: New Cool Places to Sit.

"Sure to Fail: A critique of the thesis advisor selection process."

Less is a Chore: Contributing to Global Productivity

Can Midgets power the future? Human hamster wheels for a sustainable future + auto mall

dirty ninjas practicing architecture.....straight out of dane-mart

Peking decorated duck + drive in. 

tintt, I think that you're on to something really profound, but we shouldn't forget that wooden dodecahedrons are also awesome for looking at, and maybe even standing in. I don't think that anyone should try to climb them, though; they don't seem that sturdy.

Stairway to Heaven: High Rise Abattoirs as a Complement to Sustainable Urban Agriculture

Architecture Because We Can

Modeling Virtual Reality: Using Virtual Reality to Model Virtual Reality.

Back Doors and Basement Bedrooms: Strategies For Keeping Domestic Staff Out Of Sight

Is Sven! better than Bjarke?

Why Building Code is Stupid and so is Your Mom

101 Ways to Design a Leaky Building using Parametrics

All Bjarke and no Bite: Ontology of Branding in Architecture.

Architecture - What is it good for?

by: Art Vandelay

/\ now stuck in my head "war!" funk band sounds "what is it good for!" funk band sounds "absolutely nothin!" funk band sounds.....Edwin Stirr.....

The Plants Always Win: Strategies for Destroying the Planet So We Can Stop Pulling Weeds

Incentivized design of emergent hyperbolic markets via interactive synergies of dynamic equilibria, elastic morphologies, scalar rhizomatic grids and hybridized Neo-Fordist algorithms.

I think that wins the thread Miles, er, I mean, Patrick

"scalar rhizomatic grids"

Oh my...

Tip of the old cap to that one.

a post critical analysis of Miles Jaffe's Chapter 5 of his post doctoral thesis mash-up with PS: Incentivized design of emergent hyperbolic markets via interactive synergies of dynamic equilibria, elastic morphologies, scalar rhizomatic grids and hybridized Neo-Fordist algorithms

rhizomatic projections and the cartesian grid, a socially responsible solution to those living under poverty level.

 Rhizome! "We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much." Deleuze & Guattari. 

Covered Wagons in a circle...now there must be meaning to that.....scratchin head.

few of the current trending topics may be

1. Shelter designs for the disaster victims

2. Innovative Energy efficient Shelter homes 

why architects do shelters now and not buildings and its economic indicator as shown on archinect salary poll

Why Buildings Don't Matter: The Critical Importance of Theory In Architecture 

Miles you trumped you last thesis,fuckin A

OP1 All of your ideas are horrible.