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Asylum In America: Designing A Relief Center For Social Integration, Edgar Plascencia
Asylum In America: Designing A Relief Center For Social Integration, Edgar Plascencia
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
On the east side of Atlanta, near Krog Street Tunnel, a Vacant Freight Container parking consisting of 70 acres divides local communities from one another. Also contributing to this divide in this part of the city is a major artery Dekalb Avenue as well as the major rail infrastructure that travels through Atlanta. Due to the Sites Elevated from the ground Concrete pad, this accentuates even more how this site is interrupting the local society in the area.
Since the area of this part of town is lively and flourishing thanks to markets, business, residency and the beltline activating the …
Between Aesthetics And Ethics, Seth Landis
Between Aesthetics And Ethics, Seth Landis
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
Violence and political unrest in Central America led to high numbers of refugees at the US-Mexico border at the end of 2017 and continued into 2018. Tent cities like the one outside of Tornillo, Texas is one example of many that shows how unprepared and unwilling we are as architetects to become involved in sensitive issues like immigration.
While the immigration policies of the government seem distant and abstract, the consequences are concrete: the buildings and tents that held these children were designed and implemented by engineers, builders, and private contractors. What can the architect contribute? We are taught to …
Clarkston: A Place For The [Dis]Placed, Elizabeth Nguyen
Clarkston: A Place For The [Dis]Placed, Elizabeth Nguyen
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
This thesis explores architecture explicitly programmed for the uniqueness in Clarkston’s multicultural population diversity and their needs for assimilation where current resources are fragmented and some non-existent, lacking a real sense of community. I am proposing a master plan and a building to cater to the refugee families’ adaptation to America in a social, economic, educational and cultural context where diverse groups of people can co-exist to better assimilate into society.