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Mira/Look Exhibition, Joseph Krupczynski, Inga Anger, Zachary Smith, Fleur Downey, Tobias Bernecker, Karen Rose, Christopher Velardi, Matthew Emond, Taejun James Kim, Arcangel Santiago

MIRA/LOOK: New Visions for Architecture in Holyoke (2008)

This exhibition produced for the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke and displayed in September and October of 2008, highlights community planning and design initiatives that promote cultural expression and community visions for Holyoke. The designs were created by Professor Joseph Krupczynski and students from the Architecture + Design program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Designing A Base Station For Living Routes In Auroville, India, Vandita Mudgal

Living Routes Student Projects

Living Routes is a Non Governmental organization based in Amherst, MA that sends students overseas for semester long courses affiliated by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The courses comprise of sustainable living practices, ecological studies and a lifestyle that supports nature. These sites are primarily eco-villages spread throughout the world. In some of them Living Routes has its own campus and in others they function from temporary guest houses and hired accommodations.

This LARP Master’s study project worked to develop the spatial design for a campus located in Auroville, India for Living Routes. As the course is more established in …

Designing Base Station For Living Routes Auroville, India, Vandita Mudgal

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

Living Routes is a Non Governmental Organization based in Amherst, MA that sends students overseas for semester long courses affiliated by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The courses comprise of sustainable living practices, ecological studies and a lifestyle that supports nature. These sites are primarily eco-villages spread throughout the world. In some of them Living Routes has its own campus and in others they function from temporary guest houses and hired accommodations.

This Master's study project worked to develop the spatial design for a campus located in Auroville, India for Living Routes. As the course is more established in Auroville, …

The Design Process Of A Residential Project, Christine Gale

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

This master's project is a residential design project that focuses on the design process and the design of the residence itself. The residence that was used for this project was a thirty five acre site located in Rydal, Pennsylvania. The design process started with research that looked at the country place era and three case studies that were quintessential examples of axial residential designs from different eras. This research was meant to serve as inspiration for my design. The second phase of the project focuses on a site analysis which was also crucial in helping to make design decisions.

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Redeveloping Amherst Town Center: Sustainable Zoning And Design With Form-Based Codes, Nathaniel J. Malloy

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

Today with 3-dimensional computer modeling and sophisticated mapping technology, a community can envision their future more realistically than in recent history. This software and technology can help communities plan to use energy-efficient construction, preserve open space, reduce dependence on the automobile, and increase the diversity, density and affordability of housing opportunities; these tools can help communities plan and develop sustainably. Many communities, however, continue to rely on conventional zoning and traditional land use techniques that cannot take advantage of these new resources - will sprawl ever end? Form-based codes have evolved in response to criticisms of conventional, Euclidean zoning and …

New Dirt On The Roof: Green Roofs For Umass Amherst, Lee Jennings

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects

This project describes the educational, environmental, and financial benefits of green roofs on the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA) campus. The project examines the campus' current roof-tops to determine which buildings are the best candidates for green roofs using a three-step selection method. Other campuses or cities can apply this method to select priority buildings for green roofs. Two of the best candidates are studied in greater detail in order to create schematic designs for green roofs at those sites. In addition, this project explores the design of a potential new building to be constructed on campus with an intensive …

Stores As Schools: An Adaptive Reuse Alternative For Communities Dealing With Underutilized Commercial Space And Overcrowded Schools, Jayne M. Bernhard

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Over the past two decades, underused shopping malls and big-box stores have become more prevalent in the landscape, even as newer ones are built. Shopping centers from the last half of the twentieth century may not have been designed to serve uses other than commercial, but that does not mean these buildings must or should only be thought of as single-use spaces. Projects from across the United States demonstrate that large, empty commercial structures can become municipal complexes, new town centers, mixed-use complexes, office buildings, churches, and gymnasiums. They also can be rehabilitated to fill the need for new schools …