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Just Add Water: Rethinking The Urban Bath House For Contemporary Society, Audrey Snare
Just Add Water: Rethinking The Urban Bath House For Contemporary Society, Audrey Snare
Architecture Senior Theses
"There is a need, and an opportunity now to rethink and reintroduce the public bathhouse in the contemporary urban city, and bathhouse is a ripe typology for invention and interpretation when considered against the trend of exclusive spas. I contend that a new conception of urban public bathhouse can initiate new social dynamics, new social opportunities, and new public behavior."
Architectural Healing Environments, Brian Schaller
Architectural Healing Environments, Brian Schaller
Architecture Senior Theses
"It is the contention of this thesis that a study of the phenomenological approach to how one experiences space and by incorporating evidence-based design criteria that are acknowledged for improving wellbeing, quality of life, and reducing distress in people, a healing environment will emerge. The experienced environment will facilitate a temporal awareness of one's self and the design criteria's attention to the experienced setting will allow for a healing environment to emerge within the architecture. I am not proposing that architecture can heal, but rather the architecture can stimulate a healing environment."
The Overgrown Grid: An Alternative Zoning Proposal For The Island Of Manhattan, Thomas Day
The Overgrown Grid: An Alternative Zoning Proposal For The Island Of Manhattan, Thomas Day
Architecture Senior Theses
"This thesis proposes to restructure the primary agenda of the collective monument from a homogenizing force at the local scale, to an object celebrating diversity and multiculturalism. By establishing a continuous mass connecting and collecting the city's currently isolated collective monuments, the new monument will be adjusted to regain formal and cultural contrast to the urban fabric."
Orphan: Residential Educational Cultural Center For Orphaned Youth, Valerie Rachel Herrera
Orphan: Residential Educational Cultural Center For Orphaned Youth, Valerie Rachel Herrera
Architecture Senior Theses
"This thesis contends that by re-conceptalizing the spatial, programmatic, and sociopolitical forces that for the basis of the orphanage typology, an architectural framework can be constructed that can instigate and facilitate new conditions of programmatic overlap between the 'urban cultural' and the 'private/secure residential'; fundamentally altering the outdated assumptions of the orphanage type in favor of a contemporary response embeds the orphanage in the city and the city in the orphanage."