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Thesis For A Thesis, Marc J. Neveu

Architecture

My lecture today will question the nature of a thesis project for an undergraduate architectural education. The topic of my lecture – the nature of a thesis – is probably of concern to many of you, either presently engaged in thesis preparations or those of you who will be thinking about your topics in the next few years. I will first question the nature of what a thesis may be and then propose one approach to making a thesis. The third part of the lecture will offer two examples.

Sustainability And Contemporary Urbanism In Brazil, Vicente Del Rio

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Laguna Entrada Conceptual Specific Plan: Kdst Design Group, Crp 341 Urban Design Studio

CRP 341 Urban Design Studio III

No abstract provided.

Laguna Entrada Conceptual Specific Plan, Crp 341 Urban Design Studio

CRP 341 Urban Design Studio III

No abstract provided.

Implications Of Adolescents' Perceptions And Values For Planning And Design, Camille Passon, Daniel Levi, Vicente Del Rio

City and Regional Planning

Adults are responsible for selecting and creating the environments where their children and youth live, but it is not clear if these places contain the qualities that young people value. In this study, high school students from three communities were surveyed regarding their perceptions of where they live to determine whether indicators identified by previous research as qualities that youth value are present in those communities and perceived to be important. Although the results suggest the indicators are important to the adolescents, their communities lack a majority of them and this has contributed to low satisfaction ratings. Recommendations for better …

Tilt-Up Buildings, John W. Lawson

Architectural Engineering

No abstract provided.

Playing Out Democracy In Macarthur Park: Spatial Struggles In The Everyday Use Of Public Space, Kelly D. Main

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Green Neighborhood Standards From A Planning Perspective: A Leed For Neighborhood Deelopment (Leed-Nd) Case Study, Elissa R. Black

Master's Theses

This study examines the LEED-ND pilot rating program created by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the Congress for New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 2007. The rating system is evaluated based on its application as a broad set of national standards meant to encourage green neighborhood development. The main case study is a master planned community in semi-rural Paso Robles, California. Among other things, the study discovers problems related to the application of the rating system in semi-rural and rural regions of the Western United States. Both the standards used by the rating system …

Predicting The Seismic Behavior Of The Dywidag Ductile Connector (Ddc) Precast Concrete System, Elizabeth Mary Kenyon

Master's Theses

Structural engineering is heavily dependent on the use of computers. When creating a building model using structural analysis software, it is required that the designer have an understanding of the system behavior and the modeling program capabilities.

Some engineers in the Southern California region are taking steps towards incorporating the Dywidag ductile connector (DDC) and super hybrid systems into building practice due to the advantages found in these systems’ construction methods and seismic performance.

As the DDC and super hybrid systems reach industry, the design engineer will need to model these systems using structural analysis programs. This report describes two …

Four Research Projects, One “Green” Theme, Edmond P. Saliklis

Architectural Engineering

The purpose of this paper is to suggest ways that faculty can motivate students to do research through the timely and important issue of sustainable or “green” materials in architectural engineering. This paper will briefly describe four research projects undertaken by seniors in our architectural engineering department. Following these descriptions will be a series of pros and cons that the author has detected while mentoring these projects. Suggestions for best practices will then be presented as well as a discussion of how we assessed these projects. Finally, one of the research projects will be highlighted, with the goal of demonstrating …

Arch Building For Kids: What Did They Learn? What Did We Learn?, Edmond P. Saliklis

Architectural Engineering

This paper will describe a teaching module that several senior architectural engineering students developed as their senior project. The teaching module targeted 5th or 6th grade students with the goal of creating an engineering outreach program that demonstrated a structural mechanics concept in a fun and interesting manner. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rationale behind the teaching module, and to document the changes we made to the module as we assessed its impact over several trial runs.

Exceed Teaching Workshop: Tenth Year Anniversary, Allen Estes, Ronald Welch, Stephen J. Ressler, Norman Dennis, Debra Larson, Carol Considine, Tonya Nilsson, Jim O'Brien, Thomas A. Lenox

Architectural Engineering

In response to the need for faculty training, the American Society of Civil Engineers developed and funded the ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Teaching Workshop that is today – the summer of 2008 – celebrating its tenth year of existence. For the past decade, nineteen ExCEEd Teaching Workshops (ETW) have been held at the United States Military Academy, the University of Arkansas, and Northern Arizona University, with two more workshops scheduled for this summer for a total of 21 offerings. ETW has realized 449 graduates from 203 different U.S. and international colleges and universities. This paper summarizes the content …

Researchers And Practitioners: A Dual Track Path To Tenure That Works, Allen Estes, Brent Nuttall, Cole C. Mcdaniel

Architectural Engineering

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has published the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) for the 21st Century and has produced a draft version of the follow-on BOK II, both which attempt to define the knowledge, skills and attitudes required of a civil engineer. A section of that document addresses who should teach this body of knowledge. It concludes that civil engineering faculty must be scholars, effective teachers, practitioners, and role models. In most universities, practitioners are included on the faculty as adjunct professors. They are paid less and are not viewed as full-fledged partners. The Architectural Engineering …

Spring 2008 Cal Poly Professional Studio, Architecture Department, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Architecture

Publication of quarter long studio project in San Diego, CA.

Unleashed: Cal Poly 5th Year Architecture Show, Architecture Department, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Architecture

Pamphlet to accompany the Architecture Department thesis show at the Chumash Auditorium, May 23-25, 2008.

India Basin Shoreline Development Proposal, Spring 2008, Crp 553 Project Planning Lab

City and Regional Planning Studios and Projects

No abstract provided.

The End Of The World As They Knew It: Architectural History And Modern Japan, Don Choi

Architecture

No abstract provided.

Indole Of Material And Form: An Analysis Of Le Fòrcole, Marc J. Neveu

Architecture

No abstract provided.

Simplicity, Scale, And Surprise: Evaluating Structural Form, Edmond P. Saliklis, Michael Bauer, David P. Billington

Architectural Engineering

Aesthetic and ethical issues of building design are presented here to encourage meaningful discussion among today’s architectural engineering students and practitioners. The evaluative aesthetic ideas of scale, simplicity, and surprise are applied to two important structures designed by Fazlur R. Khan. Khan’s profound understanding of load flow in his buildings influenced his aesthetic ideas. Furthermore, his aesthetic ideas were intimately intertwined with his ethical ideas about structural logic and the role of structure in architecture. We explore these ideas and present new insights as well. Our goal is to encourage a public discourse within our profession on the topic of …

Reformulating Urban Landscapes: Figure-Ground Maps, Cesar Torres Bustamante

Landscape Architecture

A type of map traditionally used in the analysis of urban form is figure‐ground, a drawing that traditionally depicts the buildings as figures against a visually contrasting ground. It finds certain antecedents in Gestalt psychology, as both drawings rely on the perceptible difference between figure and ground. However an unwanted extrapolation from Gestalt is the imposition of hierarchies, indispensable for visual segregation of figure and ground, but detrimental for the potential of figure‐ground as mapping. Mapping is a creative and cognitive activity, ruled by processes of selection and schematization. The potential of the figure‐ground map to reveal new relationships and …

Collaborative Integrative-Interdisciplinary Digital-Design Studio (Cids), Thomas Fowler, Iv

Architecture

CIDS provides for an intensive three-quarter course sequence designed to familiarize undergraduate students in a first professional degree program working with interdisciplinary teams and with advanced digital technology. Students learn the fundamental principles and applications for interdisciplinary team collaborations along with technology. The sequence provides connections to students, faculty and professionals from a wide range of disciplines outside of architecture. Students are afforded an understanding of Innovative ways to see the role of design studio, building technology systems, history/theory and the use of a range of media for communicating design intent by adopting a new way of working as a …

Lingering In Scarpa’S Woods, Marc J. Neveu

Architecture

No abstract provided.

On Stories: Architecture And Identity, Marc J. Neveu

Architecture

No abstract provided.

Textual Origins Of The Professional Architect, Marc J. Neveu

Architecture

No abstract provided.

Journals Of A Digital Design Studio, Sarah Jester, Thomas Fowler

Architecture

No abstract provided.

‘Installing’ A Studio-Based Collective Intelligence, Mark Cabrinha

Architecture

Digital tools have had an undeniable influence on design intent, for better and worse. While the now common use of digital fabrication tools has reintroduced material processes with digital processes, they have also extended the seduction of formal novelty enabled by digital tools.This critical evaluation of three installation based studios considers how these tools can impact a wider environmental knowing. Rather than seeing the studio as a room of individuals, emphasized through the one-on-one deskcrit, these studio installations suggest a kind of collective-intelligence: progress by way of differentiation, integration, competition and collaboration. This challenges the notion of authorship of the …

Moveable Feast, Mark Cabrinha

Architecture

The Moveable Feast installation was a two week foundation project in a third year architecture studio entitled Physical Gastronomy. The pragmatic goals for the installation were to present particular material techniques and their associated values of making maximum use of minimal materials. The epistemic goals in developing an installation to host an exquisite meal was to move from an architecture of the object to an architecture of the event. Thus, shifting focus from the installation as a thing to the phenomenal and social experience of the event the installation enables. Presented here is both a sequential, day by day photographic …

The Boundaries Of A Trans-National Survey Of Asian Architectural And Urban History, Christopher Yip

Architecture

In constructing a survey of the architectural and urban history of traditional Asia, how would one define the edges of the region under study? This paper will argue that such a study can reasonably exclude Western Asia (also referred to as the Middle East, or the Ancient Orient), modern Siberia, much of the Indonesian Archipelago, the Philippines, Australia, and most of the Pacific Islands for various reasons, including geographic isolation, climate, and more reasonable inclusion in another architectural historical cluster. This is in part due to the definition of the core of such a study, and to the nature of …

Tilt-Up Building Seismic Design - Precast Or Cast-In Place?, Joe Steinbicker, John Lawson

Architectural Engineering

Tilt-up buildings have been successfully designed and constructed throughout the United States for over fifty years. Today, the tiltup method of construction is used extensively to build all types of buildings, currently at a rate of 300,000,000 square feet of tilt-up concrete panels constructed in the United States each year. Recently, with the adoption of the 2006 edition of the International Building Code (IBC) in conjunction with the ASCE 7-05 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures , there has developed some confusion over what building type should tilt-up construction be classified for the purposes of seismic design – …