Hedonic Architecture: Coexistance Of Hyper Stimulating And Hypo Stimulating Experiences, 2014 Syracuse University
Hedonic Architecture: Coexistance Of Hyper Stimulating And Hypo Stimulating Experiences, Rossitza Iovtcheva
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis proposes that rehabilitating effects can be achieved through natural stimulation facilitated by the architectural design. It argues that while hospital design requires stress reduction to improve healing, a polar experience of hyper stimulation is also necessary for a substance abuser in order to yield a decrease of relapse rates.
Perfomance Pedagogy, 2014 Syracuse University
Perfomance Pedagogy, Dana Hareli
Architecture Thesis Prep
The deterioration of performance-based learning in contemporary educational practices, fostering one-to-one teaching models, prompts a discussion of the implications of theatricality on design education and the role of performance pedagogy in the architectural discipline. The Montessori method of education is a child-centered educational approach, which views the child as eager and capable of initiating learning in a supportive and prepared learning environment
Compact Community, 2014 Syracuse University
Compact Community, Abdulrazzak Alanjari
Architecture Thesis Prep
Small and compact spaces achieve a certain lightness
and “smallness” that large-scale architecture obviously
cannot achieve. The contention for my thesis is to explicitly
study the obsession with the large in Kuwait and
reasons for it, which might include climate, expanses of
land, and rapid oil industry development. By doing so,
a new typology for small spaces can be introduced in
Kuwait City and integrated into Al Sawaber Residential
community, the site, by expanding on certain elements
unique to the foreign labor communities and formally
creating spaces for that community, since they tend to
live with so little (space, luxuries, …
Redefining The Prison Milieu, 2014 Syracuse University
Redefining The Prison Milieu, Emily Lodato
Architecture Thesis Prep
Spaces of solitary confinement and isolation are the most detrimental to the mental health of any patient. In order to influence positive mental health, spaces must promote human interaction with the objective of instilling a sense of community in the inmates. A community is composed of varying architectural elements that create private and public spaces with different types of restrictions at different times.
Blind Spot, 2014 Syracuse University
Blind Spot, Andrea Macias-Yañez
Architecture Thesis Prep
Negotiating between the physical and software means mediating perception, therefore physical space is defined by endo-perception and software space by exo-perception.
Godless Pious: Buddhist Sacred Space, 2014 Syracuse University
Godless Pious: Buddhist Sacred Space, Holly Kang
Architecture Thesis Prep
The present dissonance between the practice and architecture of Buddhism can be resolved through the programmatic revision of the sacred complex that prioritizes the interdependence of the sacred, the banal and the profane.
Curated Disorders, 2014 Syracuse University
Curated Disorders, Nathanael Bengio
Architecture Thesis Prep
By using the techniques of contradiction that existed in Dadaism fused with those of psychoanalysis and defamiliarization in Surrealism and Nouveau-Realism, my thesis examines the possibility of an architectural typology that critiques hyper-functionalities, anonymous ornament and the general facelessness of most commercialized architecture today. Within the context of a Haussmannian facade will be created a simple matrix that allows for the displacement of architectural elements in and out of their intended contexts leading to the curation of the reverse, the disordered twin.
Dwelling In Density: A Study On High Density Residential Architecture, 2014 Syracuse University
Dwelling In Density: A Study On High Density Residential Architecture, David Domke
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis aims to propose an high density plan for Philadelphia by cataloging existing vacancy levels, define variously dense formal typologies within these vacancies, and strategically implement high-density architectures within the existing urban fabric to accomodate future growth.
Augmenting The Third Teacher, 2014 Syracuse University
Augmenting The Third Teacher, Christina Hoover
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis explores the formal and material design potentials of the school and contends that for it to adapt to the needs of today’s techno-centric youth, dynamic and responsive materials should be integrated to enhance the environmental quality of spaces for a child’s developmental benefit.
Cuba: Architecture And The Social Order, 2014 Syracuse University
Cuba: Architecture And The Social Order, Jessica Obregon
Architecture Thesis Prep
As the Cuban society emerged and developed, the combined forces of slavery, feudalism, capitalism, and socialism had a great impact on its architecture. When architecture ceases to be an “effect” to become a “cause”, architecture becomes a tool to affect social change.
An Architecture Of Dimensions: 2d, 3d, 4d, Etc., 2014 Syracuse University
An Architecture Of Dimensions: 2d, 3d, 4d, Etc., Tiffany Montanez
Architecture Thesis Prep
A funhouse, a building equipped with trick mirrors, shifting floors, and other devices designed to scare or amuse people as they walk through is the program of choice. Funhouses are designed for the perception of the user. They provide an amusing architecture, as well as an architecture driven by position, form, and most importantly, experience.
Spatializing The Corridor, 2014 Syracuse University
Spatializing The Corridor, Mengru Li
Architecture Thesis Prep
The goal of this thesis project is to develop a model for a public corridor that would serve as the basis for the future development in the planning of a new district.
Designing For A Resilient Waterfront, 2014 Syracuse University
Designing For A Resilient Waterfront, Laura Festa
Architecture Thesis Prep
The project will use soft infrastructure systems to create a more environmental, technical, and economically resilient waterfront development. The threat of rising sea level will become the framework for a flexible and holistic design between architecture, landscape, and soft infrastructure. By arraying the activities of recreation, ecology, and urban development along the waterfront and combining these design strategies with a soft infrastructure system, the coastline of East Boston has the potential to become a precedent for other urban waterfronts vulnerable to sea level rise. By rethinking the division between landscape and infrastructure to form a soft infrastructure system, solutions can …
Storrytelling And Its Mediums: The Spatial Implications Of Creative Collaboration Spaces, 2014 Syracuse University
Storrytelling And Its Mediums: The Spatial Implications Of Creative Collaboration Spaces, Omal-Hoda Kassim
Architecture Thesis Prep
For this specific thesis we will be focusing our area of study of ‘storytelling’ on Film/Cinema, Animation and Comics. The three disciplines require highly creative people who are required to be multi-talented, as well as collaborate highly with one another. This coerced collaboration is one key point of study for this thesis.
Civic Composition: An Architectural Solution To An Urban Problem, 2014 Syracuse University
Civic Composition: An Architectural Solution To An Urban Problem, Kaan Sanalan
Architecture Thesis Prep
The project I am proposing, “A New Way to Expand our
Cities: a Concentration of Civic Infrastructure”, offers a
solution to this ill growth expansion. A hyper dense populated
city big enough to support public transportation and
other amenities less populated areas do not, in simpler
terms, human oriented cities with concentrated civic infrastructures
(for example: schools, city halls, museums, spa
centers, transportation centers, commercial areas and low
income housing). This can be done easily with the encouragement
of the private sector and no zoning or mixed use,
but instead, more general rules and guidance which create
more opportunity to …
Energy Modeling And Implementation Of Complex Building Systems, 2014 Syracuse University
Energy Modeling And Implementation Of Complex Building Systems, Kurt Rogler
Architecture Thesis Prep
Complex/dynamic systems and technologies
are gaining traction in architecture, but accurate
analysis and simulation of conflicting dynamic
systems within a building model has yet to be
achieved. Most ideas of analysis and simulation
revolve around a set process: model one instance
of a building (i.e. without changing parameters)
and analyze in a separate program. The use of a
parametric base for analysis/simulation plugins,
as well as an easily manipulatable and responsive
model would not only further the accuracy of
testing the effects of multiple dynamic systems, but
become a new tool that merges model, behavior,
analysis and simulation to strive …
Open Tectonics, 2014 Syracuse University
Open Tectonics, Steven O'Hara
Architecture Thesis Prep
Tectonics is the project of following rules. It is the process of accepting what is given to us and making the best of it. We, as architects, assemble these predetermined components without question, albeit with potentially great results. By understanding the materials, processes, design, and jigging of building components, the limitations of actualizing designs can be eroded, challenging the relationship between designer, builder, and user.
Unlocking The Architectural Lessons Of Life On For Life At, The Beach: Mixed-Use Housing And Planning, Flagler Beach, Florida, 2014 Syracuse University
Unlocking The Architectural Lessons Of Life On For Life At, The Beach: Mixed-Use Housing And Planning, Flagler Beach, Florida, David O'Bryan
Architecture Thesis Prep
Flagler Beach, Florida will be the stage for this architectural experiment. Chosen for its efforts to hold on to it’s vernacular architecture, economic mix, cultural diversity and environmental expression, while challenged by the pressures of tourism and gentrification that it may not even know exists. Its origin was that of a destination place that converted to a hometown community that now has difficult decisions to make possibly loosing what makes it currently a great place. Flagler Beach could fall prey, as other beach communities have, and become forced under development pressures, into a place that it never intended to be.
Active Density: Stimulating The Urban Domain In High-Rise Social Housing Developments, 2014 Syracuse University
Active Density: Stimulating The Urban Domain In High-Rise Social Housing Developments, Heather Dela Cruz
Architecture Thesis Prep
I propose to retain the benefits of vertical housing and improve upon it by
up-zoning the block and building low-rise, high-density mixed-income structures
on the site’s perimeter. The new construction will include public amenities that are
lacking in the immediate area such as retail, restaurants, work space, and public
service facilities. Through adaptive re-use of mega blocks will be reclaimed. This
mixed-use approach to the expanded occupancy will also restore the diversity that
was lost when the towers were first built.
Contemporary Sacred Space, 2014 Syracuse University
Contemporary Sacred Space, George Guarino Iii
Architecture Thesis Prep
I’m interested in the kind of constituency that thinks something along these lines: that
thinks, “I can’t believe in any of this stuff. I can’t believe in the doctrines. I don’t think these
doctrines are right. But,” a very important but, “I love Christmas carols. I really like the art
of Mantegna. I really like looking at old churches. I really like turning the pages of the Old
Testament.” Whatever it may be, you know the kind of thing I’m talking about -- people
who are attracted to the ritualistic side, the moralistic, communal side of religion, but can’t
bear …