I am currently in my third year and I have just began a project exploring the use of thinness in architecture. Specifically, how thinness in texture, structure, and articulation can be used to effect human behavior. Any precedents come to mind?

That is an interesting question because, to be honest, its not one that I have considered before, at least not on purpose. Reading it I can think that people behave different in a glass house that on a stone house but that is not only because of the thinness of the material, it more has to do with a sense of protection and strength of the structure.

I would look at the beautifully thin paper walls or room dividers of old Japanese structures, shōji. A diaphanous filter to the outside world that allows the interior of the house to connect to the outside. A part of the traditional Japanese architecture that has been adapted through the ages and its still very much a part of contemporary architecture.