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Infra[Re]Structure, Sara Minsley
Infra[Re]Structure, Sara Minsley
Architecture Thesis Prep
This project contends that through the mediation and expression of systems, energies and flows the pedestrian can reclaim the experience of the street.Crucial to this is an understanding of what is on the street and how objects and people are situated on the streets currently. Through exploiting these issues New York City the pedestrian is offered a more engaged experience of moving through the city.
Decay And Opportunity Of Architecture, Alexa Hansford
Decay And Opportunity Of Architecture, Alexa Hansford
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis aims to develop a connection between the newly elevated downtown Brooklyn and the cultural/civic center of lower Manhattan. One of the growth projects is known as the Urban Farming Initiative. Private areas through out the five boroughs have been redeveloped into community gardens. The public then cultivates and reaps goods for their personal use. Through the expansion of the Urban Farming Initiative this new network connection can act as the "bridge" between the two major city centers as well as creating a central hub for the farming network.
China Rail-Borne, Daya Zhang
China Rail-Borne, Daya Zhang
Architecture Senior Theses
The next stage of China’ growth and advancement rests on the assumption that its population will be more and more concentrated in cites since approximately 350 million farmers are expected to move towards the urban areas from 2005 to 2025. How to connect its population of more than 1 billion within those cites, and among them, is always an urgent issue for Chinese government to deal with. Railway is the most common mode for Chinese to travel around. However, the overcapacity has plagues China’s railway network for years, especially during the national holidays, such as Spring Festival. The emergence of …
Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 1, Lisa Kombakis
Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 1, Lisa Kombakis
Architecture Senior Theses
WHAT IS TRANSIT, AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE URBAN INFORMAL? Transit, in an urban atmosphere, is a system used to mobilize mass amounts of population in the most efficient way possible. In terms of the urban informal, some of the transit elements used in a formal, static city are re-instated into the informal. Many times these elements (such as taxis, buses, motorcycles, cars and bicycles) are implemented in their hybridized form, creating new and localized forms of transport.Reconnecting and fostering the urban density are a few of the most important aspects that should be considered when exploring the urban informal’s …
Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 3, Lisa Kombakis
Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 3, Lisa Kombakis
Architecture Senior Theses
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American Picnickers, Yuxiang Luo
American Picnickers, Yuxiang Luo
Architecture Senior Theses
The thesis re-imagines the operation and impact of the roadside food business, by studying commuter drivers’ eating practice through a social lens. Proposing a manualproduct- test design mechanism, the thesis links roadside eating to the larger plurality of a city’s social life, and in return reconstructs the life of American cities based on the existing highway infrastructure and people’s common need for eating. Commuters’ eating practice is problematic; the drive-thru as a prevalent building and business typology has created spatial and social isolation for various parties in the society. The social isolation has two implications. On one hand, as drivers …
Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 2, Lisa Kombakis
Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 2, Lisa Kombakis
Architecture Senior Theses
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Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 4, Lisa Kombakis
Permeating The Void: Establishing A New Order Of Informality- Part 4, Lisa Kombakis
Architecture Senior Theses
No abstract provided.