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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Adaptive Typologies For Permanent Crises: Options For Rehabilitating Aleppo, Katherine Barymow
Adaptive Typologies For Permanent Crises: Options For Rehabilitating Aleppo, Katherine Barymow
Honors Capstone Projects - All
There is little doubt that the Syrian civil war has catalyzed what experts and onlookers now consider the greatest humanitarian crisis in the 21st century. Per the UNHCR, the UN Refugee relief agency supporting refugee camps across the globe, roughly half of Syria’s 22 million pre-war population has been displaced, most which have fled to neighboring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and beyond to seek refuge. 13.5 million of these people, whether unable to leave their homes or awaiting permission to do so, are in dire need of international support from non-for-profit relief agencies struggling to provide basic necessities of …
Food Form Function, Travis Telemaque
Food Form Function, Travis Telemaque
Architecture Senior Theses
By 2050, the global population will have grown to over 9.7 Billion people. Traditional farming practices will no longer be able to sustain food production for the increasing population. This thesis demonstrates how architecture and urban food production can be used to educate and reconnect our cities with locally sourced food. Integrating food production into dense urban settings will create a more efficient and resilient city.
Optimized Density: Rehabilitating The Tower In The Park For The 21st Century, Emmett Walker
Optimized Density: Rehabilitating The Tower In The Park For The 21st Century, Emmett Walker
Architecture Senior Theses
Optimized densification is the exploitation of under utilized space to create a more dynamic cooperative based density often times adding onto what is already exists. The pursuit of maximizing intelligently can help to relieve socioeconomic exclusivity, create a more ecologically sustainable lifestyle and influence social mixing. Though architecture can only have a limited influence on the social climate of a place like New York City, re-envisioning and optimizing the density of the tower in the park typology can lead to a more harmonious engagement between buildings and their surrounding context or population. Optimizing density could be the modern day American …
A Simulation-Assisted Workflow For Outdoor Thermal Comfort Design In Downtown Syracuse, Pouya Zhand
A Simulation-Assisted Workflow For Outdoor Thermal Comfort Design In Downtown Syracuse, Pouya Zhand
Architecture Senior Theses
Cities are not just about the buildings and skylines. Cities are also about the space between buildings (the ground in figure-ground). More importantly and fundamentally cities are about people and the life that happens between buildings. Simulation tools can inform the design of attractive public spaces by providing insight about the environmental conditions.
Learning From The Informal: Designing A New Housing Typology For Informal Development In Cairo, Cherif Farid
Learning From The Informal: Designing A New Housing Typology For Informal Development In Cairo, Cherif Farid
Architecture Senior Theses
This thesis examines what to design when designing for the informal and questions the role of the architect. The project combines the inherent qualities of the informal; self-built, incremental construction, and flexibility of spatial uses, with alternative urban design strategies.
The design strategy is to control the ground plane and roof scape, while leaving an open frame in between to be incrementally filled with housing. This frame allows residents to voice their identity by physically constructing their homes. It introduces an urban system that is composed of blocks that consist of an aggregation of identical units. The blocks are connected …
Zones Of Entanglement: Nigeria's Real And Imagined Compounds, Joseph Godlewski
Zones Of Entanglement: Nigeria's Real And Imagined Compounds, Joseph Godlewski
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
This article is part of TDSR, Volume XXVII, Number II, 2017
From the article abstract: This article examines the architectural and discursive configurations of traditional walled compounds in Nigeria. It begins by discussing the spatial and social organization of compounds in different regions of the country, focusing on the impermanent structures of the Èfik in and around the southeastern port city of Old Calabar. It then examines archival evidence to highlight the ways that compounds have been rhetorically constructed by European observers and post-independence scholars. It concludes that a more productive reading results from understanding the compound as a zone …