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Hawaiian Health: Community Health Through Design And Nature, Michael Welch

Architecture Theses

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Adaptive Reuse Of The Suburban Office Building, Olivia Mora

Architecture Theses

My thesis addresses the current issues of office vacancy and the housing shortage. Living in the Portland, Maine area my entire life, I’ve noticed a lot of gentrification happening in the city downtown, including my dad’s little neighborhood he grew up in. I want to create a space where people of all incomes levels have the opportunity to live in.

After a thorough GIS analysis, the ideal site was determined to be 300 Southborough Drive in South Portland. This is only 10-15 minutes from downtown Portland. When adapting a vacant, standalone suburban office building like this one, there are a …

Jiquilisco Bay Mangrove Restoration Center, Julio Romero

Architecture Theses

Due to advanced degradation of mangroves, local ecosystems and social structures suffer. Non-profit organizations, consisting of community volunteers and researchers from abroad, are on the forefront of these restoration practices. Protecting these forests prevents local families from starving and keeps their homes from flooding. Applying research-based thinking to create a lab and education space for better implementation of restoration policies on a site-by-site basis was crucial, and the result was a low-tech space with serious material considerations based on local construction and best practices based on improvements in relatively low-tech seismic and water impermeable technology. The result is a celebration …

New Visions For Religious Architecture: Religious Architecture Adaptation To Reflect Modern Spiritualism And Wellness, Gabrielle Deschenes

Architecture Theses

Religious Architecture is a typology that is found in all communities around the world, large or small. Despite the differences in architectural design due to religious views, these buildings have something in common: architectural impact. These buildings engage their communities by introducing eye-catching, and unique architectural features that separate them from their surrounding context. These qualities make them valuable pieces of architecture that bring vibrant historic value to their communities.

As designers, we must always be aware of current events and changing beliefs. For the past twenty years, people have been attending religious services less and less, and after the …

Reviving The Plan An Implementation Of Historic Concepts, Jared Mcgowan

Architecture Theses

For my thesis I would like to research historic concepts and ideas of plans, and how they could apply to residential housing layouts today. Through precedent ideas and example projects, I would be able to identify architectural moves made by famous architects of the past that would have real value today, but have since gone unused except in the projects in which they were created. Through projects examined in architectural history classes, to projects suggested by professors, I will research a wide range of styles and ideas to include in a modern project.

I will rely on historic typologies, centered …