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Reconnecting A Disconnected City : Through Placemaking Strategies, Gabriel Arroyo
Reconnecting A Disconnected City : Through Placemaking Strategies, Gabriel Arroyo
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
My thesis is motivated by a growing interest in our urbanized landscapes and their effect on social behavior. Developing a term that refers to a places lack of engagement with the people it serves, aids in capturing the necessity of a project like this today. The modern era of today’s cities have unconciously enabled this term “Placelessness”, this lack of a defined sense of place, be a recurring problem due to urban sprawl, economic imbalances, and technologies negative influence on social patterns. Our public assets are losing distinctive characteristics such as its Identity, Belonging, and Coherence; thus, amplifying the notion …
Bio-Symbiosis: Reconnecting To Nature And Each Other Through A Biological Lens, Melissa Holder
Bio-Symbiosis: Reconnecting To Nature And Each Other Through A Biological Lens, Melissa Holder
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that we spend 93 percent of our time indoors. For decades, the design of space has kept exterior environments separate from the interior conditions we have engineered for ourselves. This design process limits our ability to interact with other forms of life. According to Stephen Kellert’s principles of biophilic design, which defines an innate desire to interact with other forms of life, it is imperative that our spaces be designed to interact with each other and nature on an intimate and spiritual level. As humans have a hard-wired tendency to seek out relationships with other …
Urban Stitch: A Game In Section, Jesse Garner
Urban Stitch: A Game In Section, Jesse Garner
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
A city begins as a small, centralized community where everybody knows each other. Social events take place in the city square, or even on sidewalks, creating a street culture. As a city grows, so does the demand for larger roads, and eventually highways. In the late 1940’s President Eisenhower initiated the interstate system, capable of handling large amounts of traffic, creating connections to larger cities with economic centers. Over the next forty years, the interstates were installed across the United States, either bypassing, or crossing through cities. Although necessary, at what point does the interstate, if taken through a major …