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Connective Ecology: Reclaiming The Postindustrial Urban Landscape, Thomas Smith
Connective Ecology: Reclaiming The Postindustrial Urban Landscape, Thomas Smith
Architecture Senior Theses
This thesis contends that by considering the urban landscape as an evolving interconnected network, much like an ecosystem, architecture can create flexible, accessible public space as part of a larger scale system which affects as well as responds to specific physical and social forces of the contemporary postindustrial city.
Rural Iowa And The Transgenic Railroad, Wilson Day
Rural Iowa And The Transgenic Railroad, Wilson Day
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Using an understanding of transgenics and recombinant SNA technology as an analogue for exploring the architectural possibilities within a rail line in Clinton, Iowa, and its directly adjacent modes of transportation, I propose to create an intervention which bridges all modes and establishes a connection between a large portion of Eastern Iowa and the city of Clinton, which will act as an interface for the transfer of architectural goods as well as the transfer of people from various parts of rural Iowa to larger urban areas."
Mps Movement Public Space, Matthew R. Kanewske
Mps Movement Public Space, Matthew R. Kanewske
Architecture Senior Theses
"Portland provides an opportunity to examine the way this can relate to formal construction because cities' primary sites of public spaces will be integrated with the flows of movement, but this creates a dichotomy between the nature of site as a singular entity and the requirements of multiplicity required by a system. In this lies an opportunity for architectural invention of new forms of communicative public space."
Activating The Void: Programmed Pedestrian Infrastructure In Syracuse, Ny, Karissa Kizer
Activating The Void: Programmed Pedestrian Infrastructure In Syracuse, Ny, Karissa Kizer
Architecture Senior Theses
"To deal with the abundance of vehicles, much of the land immediately surrounding highways is occupied by parking facilities. These facilities, however, are neither spatially nor economically beneficial to the site, and are considered voids as they lack any meaningful use or activity. The scales of highways and pedestrians must be reconciled and the voids activated in order for cities to continue to survive with the ever-increasing presence of transportation infrastructure."