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Leaving A Smaller Footprint: Optimizing Passive Systems For Single Family Attached Housing, David J. Silver
Leaving A Smaller Footprint: Optimizing Passive Systems For Single Family Attached Housing, David J. Silver
Architecture Senior Theses
"Creating the best internal comfort conditions for the resident, while using little to zero non-renewable energy, is ideal in creating a sustainable, innovative, and contemporary structure that embraces both a flexible and efficient lifestyle and, at the same time, addresses important energy issues that will be a solid foundation for a new modern world."
No Child Left Inside: Environmental Education Through A Reciprocal Relationship Between Architecture And The Natural World, Leah Kleinman
No Child Left Inside: Environmental Education Through A Reciprocal Relationship Between Architecture And The Natural World, Leah Kleinman
Architecture Senior Theses
"Through a reciprocal relationship between architecture and the natural world, this thesis contends that environmental education programs can teach children to appreciate and preserve our natural environment. Architecture becomes an instructional tool itself and a way of experiencing the natural world while sustaining it and providing a healthy and comfortable setting in which to learn and have fun."
{Perm] House: Performance Of Recycled Materials, Cristina Alonso
{Perm] House: Performance Of Recycled Materials, Cristina Alonso
Architecture Senior Theses
"The construction of single-family housing units will prodive an opportunity to design using recycled materials. This thesis seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the unit's performance in a tropical climate, through means of passive cooling; in particular the promotion of comfort ventilation during the daytime."