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A Catalyst For Urban Renewal: Reservoir Number Three Environmental History Museum, Brian R. Fontaine
A Catalyst For Urban Renewal: Reservoir Number Three Environmental History Museum, Brian R. Fontaine
Architecture Theses
This architectural thesis investigates how architecture can have an impact on urban renewal by strengthening communities with an architecture which promotes human interaction through spatial and programmatic interconnections, as well as promoting relationships between people, their history, and context.
Architecture As An Educational Tool: University Of Connecticut School Of Architecture, Nicholas Mundo
Architecture As An Educational Tool: University Of Connecticut School Of Architecture, Nicholas Mundo
Architecture Theses
I propose a school of architecture focused on holistic approach to design, taking consideration for the various related fields to offer a positive learning environment. The building itself will serve as an educational tool, providing space for interactions to occur and for visitors to understand the inner workings of a school of architecture. The building should represent a progressive thought process and promote creativity and collaboration.
Design As A Tool For Architectural + Social Development: The Kalighat Women’S Resource Center, Lindsay Brugger
Design As A Tool For Architectural + Social Development: The Kalighat Women’S Resource Center, Lindsay Brugger
Architecture Theses
This project aims to serve, and ultimately enable, those who fall outside the realm of social recognition; specifically, women working in prostitution. The project will provide a place for these women to learn alternative skills, become educated, and rediscover themselves. This effort will be of particular importance to women aged 25-35. It is at this age when the women become less viable within their profession. Without a minimum number of clients the women are unable to pay their daily rent. Since very few have any sort of financial savings, many women end up either on the street, or becoming madams …
Blending Architecture With Nature: The Old Man In The Mountain, Rick Hamme
Blending Architecture With Nature: The Old Man In The Mountain, Rick Hamme
Architecture Theses
The project is centered on the blending of tectonics, social context and nature in order to create a piece of architecture that becomes part of nature and part of the social fabric of the area. The site is located at the base of the Old Man in the mountain in Franconia notch, NH. It is nestled in a valley within the White Mountain National Forest. The Old Man fell off the cliff face in 2003 but for the purposes of the project I will assume that a proposed design for a replacement made of steel and glass will be built. …
Re-Active Architecture: Exploring The Japanese Educational Experience, John J. Baker
Re-Active Architecture: Exploring The Japanese Educational Experience, John J. Baker
Architecture Theses
This design seeks to transform the Japanese educational experience through the use of architecture. The aim is to provide an alternative school that breaks from the uniformity of the current system and provides an educational environment that places an emphasis on interaction, community, and learning. The school would serve as a junior high school combined with a small community library. The school would accommodate 250-300 children. Ultimately, this school could serve as a model for future educational buildings within the Japanese educational system.
Rising Architecture, Erica M. Wiggin
Rising Architecture, Erica M. Wiggin
Architecture Theses
Many cities have experienced shrinkage in their city centers, leaving behind abandoned lots and buildings throughout the city streets. The historic city of Providence was split after the construction of I-95, leaving the west side of the city separated and in some cases abandoned from downtown. Creating a couple living communities that work together to live sustainably by producing necessities such as electricity, clean water, food and medicine will be contributing to the quality of the city as well as improving their lives by learning, developing and teaching new means of living to the rest of the community in their …
Contradiction And Duality Within The City: The House Of Arts And Culture, Andrei Sdrula
Contradiction And Duality Within The City: The House Of Arts And Culture, Andrei Sdrula
Architecture Theses
This project aims to apply the concepts of contradiction and duality as described in the manifesto to reinvigorate and reconnect a portion of the city Bucharest: the capital of Romania. This city has a long history of architectural achievements and disasters, and this intervention gets to the heart of that legacy when it confronts the House of Parliament: a massive megalomaniacal building constructed under the Ceausescu regime in the 1980s. The project addresses the parliament, sector, city, country, and people with first: a master plan, and then a civic building within that master plan that is located in front of …