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Full-Text Articles in Environmental Design
Modus Vivendi: Ecological Intervention In The Future Korean Dmz, Sunchung Christine Min
Modus Vivendi: Ecological Intervention In The Future Korean Dmz, Sunchung Christine Min
Honors Capstone Projects - All
The demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea has been absent of any human development for 53 years. When the reunification between two divided nations occurs in the future, the land that stands as a buffer zone will become of interest to many as a potential open site for the beginnings of a new urban city, industrial complex, consumerism, and massive infrastructure. In other words, the DMZ is most likely to be consumed by its neighboring urban cities to meet the immediate needs of urban development and growth. However, it would be a shame if the last untouched landscape …
American Home: Shelter Optimized For Climate, Karen Kentile
American Home: Shelter Optimized For Climate, Karen Kentile
Architecture Senior Theses
"Architecture attuned to building form and energy production and consumption can, in turn, suggest an alternate landscape for the country...
This book addresses architecture's role in the energy crisis, recognizing that residential buildings account for 53.7% of the built environment and their gridded energy produces over 21% of the United States' carbon emissions. This thesis begins to implement a process for design which can essentially optimize shelter based on climate, and further develop a local context for dwelling."
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A Sacred And Secular Landscape: Empowering Social Agency, Shreya Shah
A Sacred And Secular Landscape: Empowering Social Agency, Shreya Shah
Architecture Senior Theses
"I contend that landscape can provoke an idea for a productive, public space using the people of the city as social agents to create a sensitive rather than oppressive water remediation system. By inventing a program that uses landscape as a water remediation space as well as landscape as a religious and social space, the project will exhibit the idea that social agents can inform a change in the water pollution crisis."