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Clean Venice: Infrastructure & Place-Making In Venice, Italy, Nicholas Musilli
Clean Venice: Infrastructure & Place-Making In Venice, Italy, Nicholas Musilli
Architecture Theses
Venice is deteriorating. The fragile city is crumbling, and eventually will be swallowed into the water which surrounds it. Besides the prospect of sinking, the infrastructure is damaged weekly by the cruise ships which visit the city and account for about 2 million tourists every year. Typically, these ships produce 50 tons of garbage, 210,000 gallons of sewage, and 35,000 gallons of oil-contaminated water. That being said, these floating cities contribute to about 20% of harmful emissions in coastal and port cities. In an already damaged state, Venice is negatively affected by traffic and pollution from these vessels. Recently, the …
Community Infrastructure: A Transformation Of The New Orleans Industrial Canal, Nicholas Thornton
Community Infrastructure: A Transformation Of The New Orleans Industrial Canal, Nicholas Thornton
Architecture Theses
The city of New Orleans is in need of a symbol of stability and hope. The design proposal is for a New Orleans Water Treatment Facility that focuses on purification, reclamation and desalination processes. The facility will create a pure water supply that will be distributed into public circulation as well as be made readily available during natural disasters. A public works building such as this is important to the growth of the ever rebuilding city. In 2005, New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Katrina causing flooding and destruction to a great majority of the city. Once the hurricane subsided …
Identity Factory: The Mass Production Of The Masses, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Peter W. Bartash
Identity Factory: The Mass Production Of The Masses, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Peter W. Bartash
Architecture Theses
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is a location whose identity is its layered manufacturing history. Within the infrastructural system of corridors that organizes its urban fabric exists a tectonic language of an architecture whose purpose is in providing opportunities for making. Operating within one of these corridors, the Identity Factory allows that an individual become aware of activity shaping his or her own identity, the relationship of that identity to a greater context, and the potential to define oneself engaged in a cultural landscape through the process of manufacturing