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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, …
Pushing The Green Envelope: Education & Research Center For Sustainability, Emma Fischer
Pushing The Green Envelope: Education & Research Center For Sustainability, Emma Fischer
Architecture Theses
I propose to design a Center for Sustainability that serves as a place to educate students and the public, as well as provide a place to research and experiment, in an effort to further the developing technologies of this ecological study. While living in a perpetually changing world, I believe a place is needed to teach about these changes as well as adapt to them. I propose to build a center that both educates people about the background of the subject as well as teaching them the present, practical aspects of sustainability. Classes and exhibits will give visitors the education …