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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Creating Community: Mixed Use Development In New Bedford, Ma, Matthew J.B. Cate
Creating Community: Mixed Use Development In New Bedford, Ma, Matthew J.B. Cate
Architecture Theses
In creating a new type of community for New Bedford, MA, there was an awareness of both the existing community, context, and people, while realizing a need for change. The design uses the concept of adapting the existing density into two modes. First, merging the existing residential fabric and merging it with a public program including both commercial and retail development. Second, focusing that new typology into a smaller more refi ned space, while creating new public areas for communal enjoyment and development. Creating such an idea of living takes the existing unused exterior spaces allotted to the typical housing …
Adaptive Housing: Transformation And Growth In The Urban Environment, Kevin Mowatt
Adaptive Housing: Transformation And Growth In The Urban Environment, Kevin Mowatt
Architecture Theses
The proposal for an adaptive housing project and its chosen location arose from two obstacles that all modern cities and the world as a whole, face. The urban environment is revered for its cultural amalgam of people and wide range of demographics; however with this density and diversity comes a shortage of one type or another of commodious housing. Additionally and consequentially, the city must expand and build new buildings, leaving older, unsuitable building vacant. An adaptive architecture would allow families to grow and demographics to shift within the established community, all the while reinvigorating that second obstacle the city …
Redefining The Rural Experience: Change For The People Of The Appalachian Mountains, Magoffin County Crafts, Social, And Health Services Center Gifford, Kentucky, Katelyn Chapin
Architecture Theses
As an introductory attempt to develop improvements within economically challenged Magoffin County, Kentucky, and explore the relationship of program to an individual’s life, craft, social, and health initiatives would be introduced to the residents. A community would evolve where locals could receive education, have access to daycare, purchase food at discount prices, engage in indigenous craft making, and visit professional doctors in the health clinic and urgent care center. Done in order to facilitate individual advancement and community growth, this design will support social integration by allowing people to share the resources needed to end the problem of generational and …
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 …
Density: An Additive Process, Oscar Sam Boyko
Density: An Additive Process, Oscar Sam Boyko
Architecture Theses
This project is about embracing the global transition from primarily rural life to primarily urban life. The project is looking for a way to organize the inevitable vertical growth that will need to occur in major cities such as New York.
Living In The Spectrum: Autistic Children Center, Jennifer Villegas
Living In The Spectrum: Autistic Children Center, Jennifer Villegas
Architecture Theses
Throughout this project, I became aware of how the life of an autistic child differs from others. They view the world around them as something new and exciting. The goal was to create an environment to help children with autism and make them comfortable within their daily lifestyle. I used architecture to construct a realm in which these students could explore an environment which benefited their development.
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.
Redefining Branding In Architecture: Case Study, Westside Railyards Development New York City, Usa, Andrew Vuono
Redefining Branding In Architecture: Case Study, Westside Railyards Development New York City, Usa, Andrew Vuono
Architecture Theses
I am proposing a master plan of a 26 acre (1.4 million aq. ft.) development on top of the West Side Rail Yards near Midtown Manhattan. Midtown Manhattan in and of itself has a brand and I would like to design within it. The goal is to create a series of towers that specifically focus on anchoring the Highline as a destination all while enhancing the “New York Experience” of the surrounding context. The brand will be re-identifying the unused rail yards, due to its proximity to the highline, Javits Center, Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, the Hudson River, and …
Fort Point Channel: Maglev Transit Hub And South Station Expansion Master Plan, Steven Seminelli
Fort Point Channel: Maglev Transit Hub And South Station Expansion Master Plan, Steven Seminelli
Architecture Theses
This project entails the design of a Magnetic Levitation (or ‘maglev’) transportation hub that interacts with the urban environment of Boston, becoming a modern terminal for this new form of travel as well as a threshold into the heart of the city. Included is the focus on the junction of many scales of transportation (i.e., maglev, train, metro, bus, pedestrian…) currently present at South Station, while stimulating a community with many levels of commercial development and social interventions.
Reuniting A Community: The Stephen Kaplanis Ymca, Michael R. Kozlowski
Reuniting A Community: The Stephen Kaplanis Ymca, Michael R. Kozlowski
Architecture Theses
The goal of this thesis was to create a center that brings all teenagers of Danbury, CT together, especially the young generation to keep them active and growing.
National Culture And Entertainment Center: Iconographic Architecture, Hung Quoc Le
National Culture And Entertainment Center: Iconographic Architecture, Hung Quoc Le
Architecture Theses
The building I design will be an icon, a landmark to publicize my hometown, (a now thriving Ho Chi Minh City, formerly called Saigon), to celebrate friendly Vietnamese people and the country of Vietnam in general. The reality of Vietnam and Vietnamese life is quite different now from the image of Vietnam in the past. This new image of the Vietnamese culture will be publicized through a series of projections in spaces, on surfaces, in the transformation into form, or by more conventional displayed photos of different periods of time.
Architecture Raising Awareness Of The Wider World: A Centre For Haiti In Boston, Thomas Burns
Architecture Raising Awareness Of The Wider World: A Centre For Haiti In Boston, Thomas Burns
Architecture Theses
This project proposes a Centre, an architectural space that will help the people of Haiti, (many of whom live in and around the city), while also educating and engaging others in Haitian culture and reality. This Centre includes a combination of programmatic elements within an appropriate urban setting. The site of this project is in Boston’s Back Bay at the intersection of Commonwealth Ave and Clarendon Street, in between Copley Square and the Boston Commons. With the objective of raising public awareness, this site has the ideal balance between the tourist and local community use. This Centre
The Right Ascension Children's Center: Orphaned Refugee Rehabilitation, Newton, Ma, Jonathan Fox
The Right Ascension Children's Center: Orphaned Refugee Rehabilitation, Newton, Ma, Jonathan Fox
Architecture Theses
An all encompassing facility placing an emphasis on safety and protection for rescued refugee children. Large open spaces are critical to the success of the children’s recovery, creating a healthy therapeutic environment. The flexibility of the building allows each child to experience the transitional functionality of living and cohabitating at the center. As the children progress through the rehabilitation process, a greater emphasis is placed on integration and community, allowing them another chance at a healthy, successful life.
Volvo Museum Of Automotive History: Boston Massachusetts, C. Patrick Mccabe
Volvo Museum Of Automotive History: Boston Massachusetts, C. Patrick Mccabe
Architecture Theses
The Volvo Museum of Automotive History places people and product in direct physical contact. The visitor travels on a pace towards a closer personal relationship with the product understanding its history components and underlying generative concepts. Visitors will gain valuable information about Volvo’s products but they will not feel forced to purchase anything. They may later decide to purchase a Volvo because they have reached a total understanding of the product and recognize it as a logically optimal solution to a personal need.
Bridging The Gap: A Symbiotic Approach, Nicholas Czarniecki
Bridging The Gap: A Symbiotic Approach, Nicholas Czarniecki
Architecture Theses
Some architectural themes to be explored in this project have to deal with sustainability, passive environment systems, the play between new and old, and public and private. These themes are important because of the obvious need for solutions for energy usage when it comes to building sustainably. The goal of the thesis is to creat a culture that is sustainable through the interaction of young and old people in a built environment.
Re-Conceptualizing Performance And Event In The Public Realm: A Multicultural Funeral Home, Ashley Rodrigues
Re-Conceptualizing Performance And Event In The Public Realm: A Multicultural Funeral Home, Ashley Rodrigues
Architecture Theses
Architecture is about space and space supports place and event. When someone spends time in a building for the first time it is not the architectural details of the edifi ce that will be branded in their mind; it is often the event that took place there, and the activities that they participated in that one will remember. It is the responsibility of the architect to foresee the events that will take place over the seasons and architecturally plan for such experiences. To be an architecture of this moment architecture must continually reinvent existing rituals, typologies, and tectonics through a …
Adaptive Reuse Of The Big Box Store, Mark C. Roderick
Adaptive Reuse Of The Big Box Store, Mark C. Roderick
Architecture Theses
The project reuses and adapts a big box store into a mixed-use space that is pedestrian friendly, with paths allowing access to multiple modes of transportation. Located in Providence Rhode Island, the site is wedged between Amtrak rail tracks and Route 146, and bisected by the Woonasquatucket River. The river provides opportunity for people to enjoy the water. A focused effort was employed to enhance the river by diverting stormwater runoff to swales located on site. The project minimizes grey-fields and maximizes green-space, with a concerted effort to reconnect the site with the Charles neighborhood to enhance community. The reuse …
Center For The Creation And Performance Of The Arts, Dennis P. Mcgowan
Center For The Creation And Performance Of The Arts, Dennis P. Mcgowan
Architecture Theses
The design is geared towards experience and interaction both in and outside the building, as well as the interaction with the city. The Project creates a place that wants to give back to the community. If the building and space is popular, it will attract people and make them want to become a part of the environment. For instance, after the center is constructed companies and businesses would be attracted to be part of the neighborhood because of the energy and activity that is generated by the building.
Dignified Housing: A Community In North Conway, New Hampshire, Christian Lanciaux
Dignified Housing: A Community In North Conway, New Hampshire, Christian Lanciaux
Architecture Theses
This document outlines and explores my interest and investigation of how architecture affect’s one’s state of mind while addressing a specific social need in a particular area. The project is a mixed-income housing development in the town of North Conway, New Hampshire.
Soundview Center For Acceptance: Youths Learning From Each Other, Amanda Cerqueira
Soundview Center For Acceptance: Youths Learning From Each Other, Amanda Cerqueira
Architecture Theses
This project is one that is designed to the needs of the children using it. Children seem to learn better and quicker from each other, so my building will be a space where they can get together after school and keep learning while staying safe. This building is designed to be environmentally friendly and take advantage of its open site. Any land removed from the site during construction will be reused somewhere within the site as well as adding a green roof to make up for the grass removed for the footprint of the building. Since it was previously a …
Social Rejuvenation: A New Community Center, Lancaster, Pa, John Snavely
Social Rejuvenation: A New Community Center, Lancaster, Pa, John Snavely
Architecture Theses
The goal of a new community center, set in the Southeast Ward, Lancaster, Pa, is to create an iconic place that will unite people in a downtrodden neighborhood by providing a setting that will bring the community together, once again. The principle element that these downtrodden communities lack is a cultural or social bond. By providing a place where members of the community can gather together, celebrate and share their different cultures will ultimately create a new cultural and social bond within the neighborhood and the greater community. Also by providing a place for everyday activities to take place within …
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? …
Movement Architecture: An Investigation Into The Manipulation Of Movement Through Form And Space, Rachel Hampton
Movement Architecture: An Investigation Into The Manipulation Of Movement Through Form And Space, Rachel Hampton
Architecture Theses
This project will investigate the effect of movement on one’s perception of space and their surroundings. Means by which movement can be altered, manipulated and designed in order to alter perceptions will be explored. These means will focus on architectural organizational strategies such as nesting, layering and revealing certain types and speeds of movements. These organizations will occur at various scales, but the main exploration will occur at the program and site level, and their associated movements. The differing motions of the project and urban site will be forced into architectural interactions and relationships with one another. This investigation will …
Awakening Experience: Amish Youth And The Search For A Modern Identity, Nicole Secinaro
Awakening Experience: Amish Youth And The Search For A Modern Identity, Nicole Secinaro
Architecture Theses
This Thesis investigates Amish Youth and the proposal of a center for modern identity development that facilitates the opportunities to to experience a new, worldly perspective during their only period of “choice”. My goal is to generate modern experiences through fundemental communication and mediation between Old Order Amish teenagers and modern amerricans during their Rumspringa. This center for development will enable the teens to retain a modern identity successfully until they make a decision to be baptized into the Amish community. I want to execute this primarily focusing on education for the amish teens. This center will also allow them …
Allston Artist Village, Meaghan Earner
Allston Artist Village, Meaghan Earner
Architecture Theses
Architecture should evoke community. The built environment should encourage engagement between people in both public and private realms. We will teach, learn, sell, and celebrate art. This artist village explores the idea of the individual and their relationship to the whole. The project delineates individual and community spaces through their separations and connections. The goal is a more diverse engagement of all members of the community.
Learning Through Nature: Mount Holyoke Environmental Research And Education Center, Sari M. Lipnick
Learning Through Nature: Mount Holyoke Environmental Research And Education Center, Sari M. Lipnick
Architecture Theses
I plan on doing this by creating an area located along a river or body of water that people will be able to interact and learn from its ecosystem and wildlife. I would like this to be a space that allows for the public to come and learn either indoors or outdoors with a variety of tools. By creating two defined areas functioning as elementary learning and university learning it would allow the variety of participants to come into the space and even interact with each other. One goal of mine would be to explore this interaction and control it, …
Vertical Communities: An Alternative To Suburban Sprawl, Zev O’Brien-Gould
Vertical Communities: An Alternative To Suburban Sprawl, Zev O’Brien-Gould
Architecture Theses
In an age where space has become limited, resources are becoming both scarce and expensive, and populations grow with steadying pace, our definition of need must change. What we expect and understand to be normal will eventually change and evolve into something different. We must shape how we live in advance of such a change. We must accept a better way of life. We must produce a better way of life. The answer shall come from a higher density of living, where we will not have to give up privileges, but redefine them. It will have to be an exploration …
Identity Factory: The Mass Production Of The Masses, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Peter W. Bartash
Identity Factory: The Mass Production Of The Masses, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Peter W. Bartash
Architecture Theses
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is a location whose identity is its layered manufacturing history. Within the infrastructural system of corridors that organizes its urban fabric exists a tectonic language of an architecture whose purpose is in providing opportunities for making. Operating within one of these corridors, the Identity Factory allows that an individual become aware of activity shaping his or her own identity, the relationship of that identity to a greater context, and the potential to define oneself engaged in a cultural landscape through the process of manufacturing
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.
Strabismal Existence, Jordan Dubreuil
Strabismal Existence, Jordan Dubreuil
Architecture Theses
This thesis experiments with small prefabricated living spaces to examine the notion of existence. How small can a space become before an individual must expand and how to channel that expansion through architecture using several types of structures. The first is a Self Sustaining Mobile Living Unit that provides freedom and enriches the basic needs for existence. The second is a Demountable Structure where people are provided tools for expanding themselves creatively. The third is an existing mill structure within a local artist community in Fall River, Massachusetts.