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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Mansfield Ct: Planning A New Village Center, Maggie Jones, Richard Barringer
Mansfield Ct: Planning A New Village Center, Maggie Jones, Richard Barringer
Planning
The case follows the development of a plan for a new village center in Storrs, the central village of Mansfield, Connecticut. A process that was transparent and inclusive of the community members yielded a plan that gained the approval of the Town, the landowner (the University of Connecticut), and the citizenry. The process relied on the mending of fences, the leadership of key participants, and an innovative strategy that included development of a nonprofit corporation and creative use of grant money. While zoning changes are still in the works, the first stage of building goes forward.
Rebuild New Orleans, Sean Karns
Rebuild New Orleans, Sean Karns
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The development of a city depends on its ability to rebuild. In many cases planners have been unaware of future threats to their city that may occur. Often times in order to rebuild one must rethink and replan in order to fully utilize while learning and taking away valuable lessons from the past. In the case of a natural disaster, such lessons usually stem from precautions that could have been made to proactively resolve the situation."
The Interface Of Two Extremes: Preserving The Local, Connecting To Global - The Question Of Architecture In A Third World Environment, Ella Scheuer
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Striving for global equality, uniformity and at times, excessive luxury has led to ignorance and neglect of regional character and authenticity.
"Understanding this, I found the need to create an architecture that embraces local heritage as well as global progress. This duality will be expressed through the language of the architecture by studying both equatorial African building techniques and contemporary building technologies of the West.... By maintaining a focus on both local and global constituents, a world awareness can be fostered without losing sight of the sense of community."
Promoting Low Impact Development In Your Community, New England Environmental Finance Center
Promoting Low Impact Development In Your Community, New England Environmental Finance Center
Planning
Low Impact Development (LID) is an approach to stormwater management and site development that is gaining popularity throughout the country. Its attractiveness lies in its potential to lessen off-site stormwater impacts, reduce costs to municipalities and developers, and promote development that is “softer on the land” compared with typical traditional development. The approach, which is applicable to residential, commercial and industrial projects, and in urban, suburban and rural settings, often is linked with efforts by governments and citizens to foster more sustainable communities.
Incubator Architecture: Jazz Center, Harlem, Tyler Hinckley
Incubator Architecture: Jazz Center, Harlem, Tyler Hinckley
Architecture Thesis Prep
"This proposal I will outline the framework for all of the local centers, and more specifically I will address the crucial juxtaposition of the base and a local center by designing the two together in Harlem...
By creating an adaptive yet integral facility the local jazz center will not only be able to flourish and grow in its own incubation period, but will also become a contributing factor to the incubation of new jazz developments in the future of the community."
Analysis Of Per Capita Expenditures Of Suburbanizing Communities In Maine, New England Environmental Finance Center
Analysis Of Per Capita Expenditures Of Suburbanizing Communities In Maine, New England Environmental Finance Center
Economics and Finance
This study analyzes per capita expenditure trends among selected fast-growing Maine towns from 1970-2004. The ten communities studied are termed as “suburbanizing” towns. This term is used to describe towns that over the past 30-40 years have been in the process of transition from rural to suburban – in terms of their population and housing densities, their forms of government, and the services they provide, as well as other characteristics.1 Such towns are of particular interest because they have been absorbing a healthy percentage of the state’s population growth during this time period, often at the expense of Maine’s service …
Experiencing An Education: Principle And Form, Matthew T. Ahlberg
Experiencing An Education: Principle And Form, Matthew T. Ahlberg
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The question being investigated deals with the issue of how architecture can become the primary teaching mechanism in an educational environment and what the built forms that evolve form this approach to teaching and its relation to the built environment will take on when considered in relation to existing artistic and architectural models later on in the design process"
Rebuilding Community: Boston's North End, Maria A. Fazio
Rebuilding Community: Boston's North End, Maria A. Fazio
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The city is enhanced by architecture form which participates in the urban fabric as a means of connection, therefore promoting the formation of community... The intent is to propose developemnt for portions of the Central Artery Master Plan in Boston, Massachusetts. The city is currently in the process of relocating a major infrastructural element from its present location above grade to a tunnel beneath the city. Demolition of the exiting central artery offers the city an opportunity to infill much of the land and restore surface level streets reconnecting the east sire of the interstate to the downtown area...
The …
Architecture As A Social Art: A School Of Visual Art In Washington, D.C., Rachel A. Roellke
Architecture As A Social Art: A School Of Visual Art In Washington, D.C., Rachel A. Roellke
Architecture Thesis Prep
"It is the contention of this thesis that architecture is a vehicle for communication that strengthens community identity by bringing art and the public together.
The thesis research explores the social role of visual art within community, including its social effects, its relationship to the surrounding physical and social context, and the formal elements of visual language. Architecture, as a form of public art, can be explored under the same parameters."
Vorhizomeid: Nodes Of Community Services Connecting Albany, Ny, Andrew Watkins
Vorhizomeid: Nodes Of Community Services Connecting Albany, Ny, Andrew Watkins
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The contention is to reposition terrain vague into the urban fabric recreating a continuum of the urban system while attempting to detract neither from the scale of the infrastructural system, nor that of the human body. Terrain vague muse be approached in a different manner than that of the traditional urban city. Establishing community through terrain vague should be done by measure of the forces, flows, and rhythms of space."
Bastard Brand Civility, Mclain Clutter
Bastard Brand Civility, Mclain Clutter
Architecture Thesis Prep
"This investigation springs from a simultaneous interest in two parallel trends int he contemporary city:
1. The loss of the primacy of architectural and urban form in lieu of economic, market driven understandings of the city...
2. The related necessity of the city to adapt to this move towards the economic, and subsequently market itself as a commodity attractive to the consumer...
My contention, instead, is that we must embrace market forces and sell the city as a spectacle.
Analyzing The Sustainability Of Puppets To Create A Puppet Theater, Emily Buttrick
Analyzing The Sustainability Of Puppets To Create A Puppet Theater, Emily Buttrick
Architecture Thesis Prep
'The revitalization of an urban community can begin with a public building and can incorporate sustainable design. Sustainable architecture is not only ecologically sound but programmatically flexible and utilizes the resources of the neighborhood. Sustainable design can therefore incorporate ideas of future use of a building. It can also be used in a way to inspire the people using the building so that their own lives become subsistent.
"This thesis contends that through the analysis of the sustainability of puppets, the construction of a community theater building can be fashioned. A puppet's flexibility, layers, scale, structure, and joints make it …
Community Design Center 1998-2000, Syracuse University
Community Design Center 1998-2000, Syracuse University
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
This short publication documents a community development project within Syracuse that involved the School of Architecture students from 1998 - 2000
Roosevelt Island: Completing An Urban Community, Karin M. Kilgore
Roosevelt Island: Completing An Urban Community, Karin M. Kilgore
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The thesis became an architectural exploration of what makes neighborhoods and community at two scales: at the scale of the city (macrocosm), represented by the urban plan; and at the scale of the individual (microcosm), represented by the concept of house and housing. At these two contrasting scales, the main focus of the study was:
To explore how an urban design can shape community; To explore the role housing plays in the making of urban fabric/neighborhood."
Benefits Of Community: Housing For People Living With Aids, Paul R. Coffman
Benefits Of Community: Housing For People Living With Aids, Paul R. Coffman
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The notion of a beneficial community is the primary concern in the creation of a program to provide housing and health care for people with AIDS (PWA). The program will provide long term housing for PWA as well as hospice care during the time of their dying.
Given the fact that the disease strikes without prejudice at all levels of society, not discriminating upon race, age or gender and that the victims tend to be concentrated within dense urban condition, the program will be located in a mixed socio-economic, residential, urban neighborhood: Boston's South End."
A Waterfront Reclamation, Allen Rossignol
A Waterfront Reclamation, Allen Rossignol
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Due to industry changes, once prosperous maritime towns have been abandoned. The cities have been left as they were and have not adopted new functions or uses for their valuable asset, the water's edge. Although the city's maritime history and culture attract people, the public has turned its back on the waterfront resulting in non-urban, non-public spaces such as parking, run don properties and abandoned storage sheds. This disjunction between the city and the waterfront needs to be addressed."
"A city's waterfront can be reclaimed through the Archtiecture of Recreation in which the facilities and space are designed to heal …
Shaping Our Common Destiny Town-Gown Relations And The Physical Implications Of Economic Development, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Shaping Our Common Destiny Town-Gown Relations And The Physical Implications Of Economic Development, Umass Amherst Center Economic Development
Center for Economic Development Technical Reports
A conference was purposed entitled “Shaping Our Common Destiny: Town/Gown Relations and Physical Implication of Economic Development,” in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. The framework for the conference will focus on the mutual interest, concerns, and responsibilities of the community officials and the university officials.
The purpose of this survey was two-fold: to determine interest among university and town planners in participating in the proposed conference and to assess the nature of current relationships between the two entities.
The Urban Neighborhood Collective, Angel David Nieves
The Urban Neighborhood Collective, Angel David Nieves
Architecture Senior Theses
The study of development in traditional urban Africa is relevant to the contemporary American architect as it offers the possibility to him or her of a neighborhood form that responds to current American social problems. The form of this new American neighborhood might parallel the African village, a strong paradigm reflecting humankind in a non-alienating relationship with the environment. Our urban areas have deteriorated over the past century, in part because planners and architects seemingly have little understanding of the needs of humankind[...] The lack of self expression that humankind faces at home, at work, and in the community weakens …
The Urban Neighborhood Collective: A Model For Empowerment Through Space Within The Inner City Landscape, Angel David Nieves
The Urban Neighborhood Collective: A Model For Empowerment Through Space Within The Inner City Landscape, Angel David Nieves
Architecture Senior Theses
"The study of development in traditional urban Africa is relevant to the contemporary American architect as it offers the possibility to him or her of a neighborhood form that responds to current American social problems. The form of this new American neighborhood might parallel the African village, a strong paradigm reflecting humankind in a non-alienating relationship with the environment."
"In order to promote social change, architecture must take on a new mode of operation. That is to say that architecture must come from the people, an architecture deemed some years ago in an art installation, "Architecture without Architects." The architect …
Harlem On My Mind, Shawn L. Rickenbacker
Harlem On My Mind, Shawn L. Rickenbacker
Architecture Senior Theses
The thesis involves directly establishing a coherent dialogue between participants and architecture. The site and architecture involved are only a catalyst to the area it is representing, Harlem. However, the project will have the responsibilities of designating itself as a primary theshold to the famous ditricts and attracting would be participants. It is for this reason the program of cultural progress centre has been chosen in the interest of providing a stimulation program. The intention of the proposed centre is not to compete with the district or communty in which it lies, but to act as its subordinate. This will …