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Mott House: Neh Grant Application For Archaeology Field Work, 1973, James Deetz

Documentation

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Application to fund historical archaeological field work at the Mott Farm during the summer of 1973. Project Director for this project was James Deetz, Department of Anthropology, Brown University.

Mott House: For Sale

Documentation

Mott House For Sale posting for the dismantled house, available for purchase and reassembly.

Creating A Calm, Natural Healing Hub, Daniel Cusmano

Architecture Theses

The sights of this project are aimed at three main concepts: mental health and treatment, seclusion vs. connection, and nature as a healing device. The three will work to create a mental help campus located in Newbury, Massachusetts to provide occupants help and treatments for a wide variety of ailments or cases, both in the short-term and long-term aspects. Being located in Newbury, Massachusetts allows the project to be secluded in the vast, wooded areas to the western portion of the town while still having connections to the public, through the network of public hiking trails on site and the …

Crease: Synchronous Gait By Minimizing Actuation Through Folded Geometry, Olga Mesa, Saurabh Mhatre, Dan Aukes

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution promises the integration and synergy of disciplines to arrive at meaningful and comprehensive solutions. As computation and fabrication methods become pervasive, they present platforms for communication. Value exists in diverse disciplines bringing their approach to a common conversation, proposing demands, and potentials in response to entrenched challenges. Robotics has expanded recently as computational analysis, and digital fabrication methods are more accurate and reliable. Advances in functional microelectromechanical components have resulted in the design of new robots presenting alternatives to traditional ambulatory robots. However, most examples are the result of intense computational analysis necessitating …

Live, Work, Unite: Housing And Workspaces For Providence Artists, Michael J. Kelly

Architecture Theses

The objective of communal architecture in society is not only to serve people’s basic spatial needs, but also improve their knowledge about the importance of sharing the gift of space itself, even if it is designed for two different purposes. This project focuses on all that stands between the two most basic purposes of a space: living and working. In more ways than one, those two activities are not so different. However, that depends on the occupation. In some fields of work, offices share common spatial features with dwellings. But on the other hand, they are often too different and …

Sowing The Seeds Of Growth: A Study On Schenectady, Ny’S Food Desert, Kelsey M. Ling

Architecture Theses

Humanity, it seems has always struggled to find a balance between human comfort and other factors, such as environmental and political factors. Sometimes even when our intentions are good, they are not enough to meet basic human needs. A common worldview of many living in the United States is that a lack of food is a third-world problem, but this is some- what of a falacy. Food availability varies greatly from one part of the US to another.

Many issues can contribute to a lack of food. For example, out west water shortages sometimes create crop shortages. Cities such as …

School: A Community And Environmental Resource, Samantha M. Kelley

Architecture Theses

Schools play an important role in the lives of children, and can play a larger role in the broader community. Throughout history, schools have existed that have been connected to the environment, whether it was to simply provide children with the opportunity to spend time outside, or to teach students about the natural world. With the state of climate change that exists today, connecting students to the environment is of utmost importance. Students must understand the environment, in order to appropriately understand the threat of climate change, and ultimately take action to combat it.

Schools are an ideal location to …

Improving Learning Environments: Integration Of Nature In Education, K-6, Joseph M. Hanson

Architecture Theses

Schools are one of the most crucial atmospheres for children as they begin to learn and grow into the people they are going to become. The average student will be in school for twelve years, and then four years of college. This makes up a significant amount of their young lives.

School is where students go to develop the basic foundations of education. School provides chances for children to acquire knowledge on various fields of study, such as literature, history, mathematics, social sciences and physical sciences. Attending school allows for opportunities to meet and form relationships with peers in the …

Filling The Gaps, Robert Monahan

Architecture Theses

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Dissolving Boundaries: Revitalizing A Forgotten Neighborhood In Los Angeles, Dominic Cirillo

Architecture Theses

Studying great American Cities and their development also gives us insight into the problems many cities have faced during industrialization and urban growth. Los Angeles, California is at the forefront of these issues caused by its age old paradigm of progression and innovation above all in order to reach prosperity. From Bulldozing entire historic districts to constructing over its former rail system in order to accommodate for its rapid growth (twice that of an average city). In this process of urbanizing, the city had almost forgotten about its community identity and neighborhoods. Urban sprawl has caused a weaker city center …

An Adaptive Mission: Seeking A New Life For Boston's Lost Breweries, Stephania M. Dakoyannis

Architecture Theses

The housing crisis across America is becoming increasingly worse by the year. Today, millions of people across the country struggle to keep a steady job and major cities struggle to effectively house their people at an affordable price. Across the country, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of unused or abandoned buildings with no purpose that could transform into possible solutions to solve these nationwide issues. Unfortunately, many of the buildings designed in the past rendered ineffective in use and design therefore, we as architects must delve into design that citizens can holistically enjoy and benefit from. Also, adaptively reusing …

A Community Complex: The Role Of Stadia In The Urban Fabric, Deanna Vecchio

Architecture Theses

Sports are a natural and necessary part of life and culture. It is to be expected that stadia, symbols of identity and community, hold such reverence in society. However, stadia are nothing but buildings to any non-sports goer. When stadia combine to form a complex with parking, they become essentially detached from the rest of the community entirely.

This thesis aims to address the stadium complex and its discontinuity with the surrounding urban fabric. The research focuses on revitalizing a portion of the existing sports complex in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania into a mixeduse complex to increase occupancy of the 10 million …

Re-Grounding Newport The Climate Of Urban Design Rudc 2020 Austin Tx, Edgar Adams

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

This presentation uses a Graduate Design Studio as a medium to to discuss how to integrate broad based systems thinking into Architecture and Urban Design curricula. Coastal Resilience was interrogated using various lenses to arrive at solutions that integrated marine ecology, transit, landscape, and urban design to revitalize the Central Waterfront and reconnect it to the harbor. This connection was severed with the introduction of America's Cup Blvd. as part of a 1960's urban renewal plan that preferenced tourism, retail and parking over the integrated and mixed use environment that it replaced. The presentation begins with a preface discussing Colin …

Marlborough Street, Newport, Ri: A Cultural Landscape Analysis, Arianna C. Marchetti

Historic Preservation Capstone Projects

Marlborough Street in the downtown district of Newport, Rhode Island is a historically and culturally rich area of the city. It is home to several noteworthy historic structures, some of which date back to the seventeenth century. Despite its unique character, its history has remained obscure. This report aims to answer why the history of Marlborough Street is not as recognized as it should be. Its goal is to provide readers with a detailed history of its existence from the seventeenth century to present day. It will then conduct a cultural landscape analysis by examining the existing conditions of the …

The Renaissance Of Worcester’S Canal District: A Post Industrial Revitalization, Vincent Pacifico

Architecture Theses

If we carefully analyze what exists currently in our industrial neighborhoods, we see that they all have very close proximity to our existing transportation systems. What used to be utilized for shipping raw materials and manufactured goods can be now used for commuting to and from other cities on a public transportation system. Many of these 19th and 20th century buildings in these neighborhoods are perfect spaces which we can start to use for modern day working, living and commercial space. By looking at ways in which we can reuse and incorporate these older buildings into a 21st century development, …

Citizens Of God's Little Acre: The Lives And Landscapes Of African Americans In Newport During The Colonial Era, Marjorie Drew

Historic Preservation Theses

The purpose of this research is to discover biographical information, community interactions, and property ownership regarding the enslaved and emancipated individuals interred in God’s Little Acre Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. This research will further the understanding of how the African and African American community contributed to the development and cultural landscape within Newport. God’s Little Acre Cemetery is one of the oldest African American cemeteries in the United States and is the foundation for this research. The history of slavery and the stories of the enslaved Africans and their emancipated descendants within New England have been discussed, but marginally …

Linking Space: A Transit Oriented Design, Jessica Vara

Architecture Theses

I propose to impact change for people and planet by architecting a community within a dense living space that is sustainable by means of public transportation that would enable travel to all essential activities as well as many leisurely places, events, stores, shopping centers and theaters. The carefully planned and architected ecosystem would blend commodities of life with dense living spaces to provide a self- sustaining community within a city. People who work outside of the ecosystem could utilize it by connecting through branches of the public transportation system. People who live within the ecosystem could depend on various means …

Saving Face: Adaptive Reuse Of A Twentieth-Century Psychiatric Center, Taylor M. Hughes

Architecture Theses

As humans, architects have their own prejudices and beliefs, and often times, those can affect their work, particularly when designing such facilities that were historically stigmatized. My thesis looks at one typology in particular - psychiatric centers, formerly known as asylums and mental hospitals. The life cycles of their architecture can be looked at in three parts: their uses, their abandonment and their futures.

The psychiatric centers of the nineteenth century were designed to be comfortable and humane, offering fresh air and sunlight to all residents, sometimes even teaching skills and trades to the residents. However, the layout of such …

Hope For Paws New York: Rescue, Rehabilitation And Veterinary Hospital, Jasmine Arndt

Architecture Theses

Hope for Paws has made it their mission to rescue any and all animals, no matter the size, shape, breed or species. Their goal is to rehabilitate them, foster them out, and get them adopted into loving forever homes, where they will never know the abuse and neglect that they had previously known. But is there a better system? Hope for Paws runs the rescue missions, pays for the vet bills, find the fosters, and works with the fosters to find them their forever homes. They accomplish this while they still care for all they rescue and check in on …

Theories Of Perception In Renaissance Humanism, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The hypostases of being consist of the terrestrial world of corporeal forms, dense, intertwined and in shadow; then the rationalization of the corporeal forms in the angelic mind; and finally the resolution of the forms in their absolute archetypal unity. The hypostases of being are modelled in the Universal Figure of Nicolas Cusanus, with the three figures of body, soul and mind inscribed in each of the three levels of the hierarchy, containing the nine choruses of Pseudo-Dionysius in the celestial hierarchies, representing the structure of the universe, as illustrated in a diagram, “Quator dictarum Monadum Schematica explicatio,” in Kircher’s …

Philosophy Of Perception In Hegel, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

According to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in the Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (The Introduction to Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art, 1886), beauty in art is a higher beauty than that of nature, because beauty in art is a product of the mind, or spirit, the intellectual rather than the sensory. In the Symposium of Plato, when the initiate learns to love all beautiful bodies rather than just one body, to “pursue the beauty of form” (210) rather than the beauty of the body, to turn away from the “low and small-minded slav-ery” of love for the beauty of a body, …

Jacques Lacan And Language, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

According to Jacques Marie Emile Lacan in Écrits, the metonymic chain in language produces signification at a point which is the “anchoring point,” the point de capiton or button hole, which occurs retroactively, after the phrase is completed, and is the point at which the network of signifiers in the metonymic chain corresponds to a network of signifiers in the concept, the idea of mouth or river, for example, and thus accomplishes signification.

The Imaginary And Symbolic Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The principal categories of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the structuring of the psyche are the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. The imaginary (imaginaire) refers to perceived or imagined images in conscious and unconscious thought, sensible and intelligible forms; picture thinking (Vorstellung), dream images or manifest content, and conscious ego in discursive thought. The symbolic (symbolique) refers to the signifying order, signifiers, in language, which determine the subject; it refers to the unconscious, and the intellectual, the logos endiathetos and the logos prophorikos. It is the relation between the imaginary and symbolic in conscious and …

The Other Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Language in the symbolic of Lacan is defined by the Other, which is the “intersubjectivity of the ‘we’ that it assumes,” as described in Écrits. The subject enters language in relationship to the other in perception, the per-ceived object or person, as recognized by the other. As described by Lacan, “What constitutes me as subject is my question. In order to be recognized by the other, I utter what was only in view of what will be [the future ante-rior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming].”

Training For The Future: For Autism Spectrum Disorders (Asd), Kerri Noble

Architecture Theses

At the age of 22, people Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASDs), classified as Autism and Asperger Syndrome, age out of the public school system with no real working knowledge of how to provide for themselves, both in jobs and basic life skills. They have to learn how to complete basic life skills as any ordinary person would, however, they are not ordinary and to give them the best chance at being successful, additional training would put them at a greater chance to be self sufficient.

The Pursuit Of The Future: An Investigation Into A Sustainable Office Tower, Clayton R. Daher

Architecture Theses

The City of New York has long been known to be one of the most influential cities in the world for corporations. It is a hotbed for talent and innovation alike. It is a city that never sleeps and often times forces employees, whom are just trying to make a name for themselves, to work 60+ hours a week in cramped conditions.

In surveying the city, it is prevalent that there is a lack of sustainable office buildings which in return has adverse effects on the employees’ health and productivity. Corporations are continuously transform their practices and missions to be …

The Future Living Experience In Vail, Co, Maikao Vang

Architecture Theses

Employee housing has become a struggling issue with the U.S. ski industry due to the fluctuation of climate, location and the industry known to have one of the highest carbon footprint. Today, many ski resorts are resorting ways to reduce their carbon footprint by using more environmental friendly equipments and incorporating all-seasons activities. As ski resorts starts to incorporate more activities into their resorts; the architecture and experience has been re-elevated as well.

This thesis project explores the limit of architecture and experience of putting employees and tourism experiences together. The two programs were developed and the similar program was …

A Vernacular Haven, Karita N. Lipdo

Architecture Theses

This architecture project aims to address issues of livelihood displaced people in Northern Nigeria. Life aftrer a traumtic experience is by no means an easy task to undertake. With a lot of loss, grief and uncertainty towards their respective future as individuals and a people group, my project seeks to aid the situation by providing a halfway settlement to undertake refugees and provide a system that helps them respond more favorably to the tragedy of loss. My architectural project aims to reduce human suffering, give back their sense of dignity and elevate their value as future members of the Nigerian …

Inspiring Youth Cognitive Development, Michael Orlando

Architecture Theses

Through the exploration of cognitive research and development, the understanding of the brains of the youth will help parents, children and educational professionals understand methods for proper educational learning for undeveloped children. The research will guide the design to emulate the atmosphere for encouraging learning, comfort, and collaboration. Through the support programs at Rowan University, the neuroscience center will not only help educate, it will provide a helping hand for communities nearby.

Movement Transparency, Lauren Tamburrino

Architecture Theses

Movement in architecture is an important aspect in creating a users experience. Dance, more specifically, is a way in which performers can express their own experiences and tell a story through the movement of their own bodies. This poses the question: in what ways can movement be implemented into the visitors experience? Architects such as Bernard Tschumi and Lawrence Halprin have used this concept of movement throughout their practice as a way to make a space flow and be the most comfortable for the user. Dancers can utilize their body to create aesthetic forms and are able to tell a …