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Connective Ecology: Reclaiming The Postindustrial Urban Landscape, Thomas Smith
Connective Ecology: Reclaiming The Postindustrial Urban Landscape, Thomas Smith
Architecture Senior Theses
This thesis contends that by considering the urban landscape as an evolving interconnected network, much like an ecosystem, architecture can create flexible, accessible public space as part of a larger scale system which affects as well as responds to specific physical and social forces of the contemporary postindustrial city.
The Interface Of Two Extremes: Preserving The Local, Connecting To Global The Question Of Architecture In A Third World Enironment, Ella Scheuer
Architecture Senior Theses
The world in which we live is evolving at exponentially increasing speeds[...] The constant upgrades are considered to be arduous in the U.S. but it can be overwhelming for a Third World country who has only been introduced to the advances secondhand...This striving for global equality, uniformity, and at times, excessive luxury, has led to ignorance and neglect of regional character and authenticity. Understanding this, I found the need to create an architecture that embraces local heritages as well as global progress. This duality will be expressed through the language of the architecture by studying both equatorial African building techniques …
Village Methodology For Grandfamily Housing, Meghan O'Reilly
Village Methodology For Grandfamily Housing, Meghan O'Reilly
Architecture Senior Theses
"The study, analysis, and use of a village as a model for housing, specifically grandfamilies housing, allows the opportunities to see the bridge between community spaces in a village, a community spaces in housing. Villages operating as a community through the creation of spaces [such as: town squares, meeting halls, churches, stores, schools, and places of worship] can be used as an architectural model for how in the housing typology of grand families, the same spaces [such as: gathering halls, gardens, communal kitchens, counseling centers, after school care, and spiritual spaces] can allow the community to operate as an analogous …
Mps Movement Public Space, Matthew R. Kanewske
Mps Movement Public Space, Matthew R. Kanewske
Architecture Senior Theses
"Portland provides an opportunity to examine the way this can relate to formal construction because cities' primary sites of public spaces will be integrated with the flows of movement, but this creates a dichotomy between the nature of site as a singular entity and the requirements of multiplicity required by a system. In this lies an opportunity for architectural invention of new forms of communicative public space."
33.3% - Creative Entrepreneurship In Buffalo, Ny, Bruce Molino
33.3% - Creative Entrepreneurship In Buffalo, Ny, Bruce Molino
Architecture Senior Theses
"This work has emerged out of an interest in the idea of the resilient city. It is an experiement intended to test ideas and suggest ways in which to reconsider architecture within a directed urbanism. Directional urbanism is a term that I use to describe how insertions can redirect or reinvent the trajectory of a city. This thesis privileges resiliency as the objective of that new trajectory; not as a moment of realization, but rather a continually changing adaptive process that allows cities to act, and react, in a constructive way."
Building Urban Texture, Fernando Pabon-Rico
Building Urban Texture, Fernando Pabon-Rico
Architecture Senior Theses
"This investigation is based on the contention that a city is made up of an urban construct where certain elements are continuous in their presence. This continuity provides legibility to an urban environment. The fact that elements or parts are an integral part of the legibility of the city fosters the reading of the city as a function of their integration. The role or place of architecture therefore lies on the formation of the city through its parts."
Dwelling In The Stability Of Change: Creating Identity Through The Repetition Of Site Specificity For The Foster Care System, Emily A. Wiles
Dwelling In The Stability Of Change: Creating Identity Through The Repetition Of Site Specificity For The Foster Care System, Emily A. Wiles
Architecture Senior Theses
"This thesis contends that an integration of the associations that modernity and dwelling have with foster care will enable place identification in the deinstitutionalized system. When the two work in conjunction with each other, opportunities for dwelling will be created within, between, and around the framework of the modern grid."
Activating The Void: Programmed Pedestrian Infrastructure In Syracuse, Ny, Karissa Kizer
Activating The Void: Programmed Pedestrian Infrastructure In Syracuse, Ny, Karissa Kizer
Architecture Senior Theses
"To deal with the abundance of vehicles, much of the land immediately surrounding highways is occupied by parking facilities. These facilities, however, are neither spatially nor economically beneficial to the site, and are considered voids as they lack any meaningful use or activity. The scales of highways and pedestrians must be reconciled and the voids activated in order for cities to continue to survive with the ever-increasing presence of transportation infrastructure."
Points Of Control: Complexity And Crisis In Animated Architecture, Andrew J. Lynn
Points Of Control: Complexity And Crisis In Animated Architecture, Andrew J. Lynn
Architecture Senior Theses
"The 'traditional' use of computers in architectural design has focused on CAD as a productivity tool for design and construction drawings and 3D visualization as a method of presenting designs to clients and the public. In other words, the computer as a tool for creating representation. However, in the last decade, a movement has emerged that uses computation as a medium for design."