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Integrating Infrastructures: Redefining Ecological + Man-Made Systems, Bio-Remediation Facility, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Nicole C. Arvanites
Integrating Infrastructures: Redefining Ecological + Man-Made Systems, Bio-Remediation Facility, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Nicole C. Arvanites
Architecture Theses
The bioremediation training facility consists ofaseries ofeducational bUildings including laboratories , libraries, an auditorium, classrooms, greenhouses and garden social spaces for students to learn about ecological systems. The facility runs adjacent to aseries ofold built infrastructures, like the Blackstone River Dam, drawing aparrallel to how people use these systems with the function of the ecological ones within the bUilding. The parrallels between these two types ofsystems will bring new definitions to one's environmental conditions in the city.
Mother Building: Communal Architecture Incubator, Richmond Downey Jeffrey
Mother Building: Communal Architecture Incubator, Richmond Downey Jeffrey
Architecture Theses
The Mother Building is an architecturally-themed social experiment in most respects. It is an endeavor into understanding the mind of the architect, the creative drive and the particular aspect of motivation. Meanwhile, it is also an enterprise to reestablish high architecture as a primarily public art: to remove the more grandiose aspects of our practice from the ivory tower and back to the streets, to create a new dialogue between architect and society. In other words, how do we put together a building that acts to best facilitate the genesis of more buildings and stimulates public interest in a practice? …
Newport Aquarium Oceanic Research And Discovery Center: To Further Our Knowledge Of The Ocean, Steven R. Toohey
Newport Aquarium Oceanic Research And Discovery Center: To Further Our Knowledge Of The Ocean, Steven R. Toohey
Architecture Theses
This project is to design an Aquarium building both for the public and for researchers. There will be connections to the ocean visibly for the public and physically by docks and piers for the researchers. The building needs to tie into the landscape visually and will be using as many sustainable techniques as possible to support the building. A building that teaches how to save and preserve this planet should help the cause by creating its own power.