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Crisis Expo, Stephen Patrick Klimek
Crisis Expo, Stephen Patrick Klimek
Honors Capstone Projects - All
The contention of this thesis is that architecture can create a venue for new forms or forums of civic and political engagement in a post industrial urban environment. Executing democratic processes of discussion, debate, and dissent is more important than the resolution to a given crisis. Yet in a world of impending crises architecture has yet to envision a truly contemporary form of assembly for the resolution of these issues by the Phantom Public. There is a politics of space because space is political4. Politics needs space. It exploits space as a resource, a site of debate, a …
Univercity Living Room, Stephen Townsend
Univercity Living Room, Stephen Townsend
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Is Leed A True Leader? Studying The Effectiveness Of Leed Certification In Encouraging Green Building, Megan M. Turner
Is Leed A True Leader? Studying The Effectiveness Of Leed Certification In Encouraging Green Building, Megan M. Turner
Pomona Senior Theses
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (or LEED) is the most commonly used green building rating system in the United States, bestowing upon LEED certified buildings the prestige of being considered more sustainable than their non-certified neighbors. The public often assumes that LEED certified buildings are completely sustainable or even net-zero with regards to greenhouse gas emissions, but in actuality buildings certified under the most popular version of LEED are only required to be 15% more energy efficient than required by most state building codes – a far cry from the energy usage cuts needed to stave off global warming. …
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles For Post Disaster Surveys, Thor Liland Larsen
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles For Post Disaster Surveys, Thor Liland Larsen
Master's Theses
In the current built environment, structures require regular observation and maintenance. Many of these structures can be quite challenging to evaluate. The required scaffolding, lifts, or similar access facilities can become quite costly to rent and construct, and can be a long term disturbance to those who use and manage the particular structure. Furthermore, there are situations where examination for the purpose of detailed analysis can be quite hazardous, if not entirely unsafe for humans. In a post-disaster environment traditional methods may not be safe or adequate for gaining access to parts of a structure that require observation or analysis. …
Transportation Energy Analysis For Single-Family Residential Construction In California, Tyler Langley
Transportation Energy Analysis For Single-Family Residential Construction In California, Tyler Langley
Master's Theses
Transportation Energy Analysis for Single-Family Residential Construction in California
Tyler Langley
Since the oil crisis of 1973, energy use in the United States of America has been a growing area of concern. Studies have shown that the construction industry is responsible for almost half of all annual energy consumption. With this awareness, the analysis of energy use within the related construction fields has become an emergent subject. One facet of construction energy use that has been less studied than others is that of the energy consumed in transporting building materials from manufacturing plants to construction sites. This thesis proposes a …
Glorious Constructions: The Struggle To Preserve Salvation-Themed Visionary Art Environments, Molly Elaine Sheehan
Glorious Constructions: The Struggle To Preserve Salvation-Themed Visionary Art Environments, Molly Elaine Sheehan
Master's Theses
Salvation-themed art environments are a roadside rarity, built out of a strong visionary dedication to God, but the sites are disappearing simply because the work is misunderstood. The historiography on the subject is sparse, trending more toward coffee table books with big glossy pictures than real scholarly endeavors, but the consensus among all has been clear. The sites are a valuable part of the recent American cultural landscape, crossing several scholarly fields - art, architecture, and history - and uniting them into a cohesive preservation movement. On a series of trips to visit, see, and experience five of these sites, …
An Architecture Of Amelioration, Geoffrey Russell Plagemann
An Architecture Of Amelioration, Geoffrey Russell Plagemann
Masters Theses
Scar: A lingering sign of damage or injury, either mental or physical.
Technological advancement scars the landscape. It has been our practice to ignore, or worse, hide these marks that have been made as society continues to advance. Industries past left us relics and ruins of bygone eras of promise and production. The time we live in has recognized the untenable failures of past generations, however there are methods of industry that continue to injure the landscape. We will leave our scars.
In this time we must rethink the scar, define it, and recognize its beauty. The first step of …
Urban Fabrication: The Architectural Heightening Of The Urban Tactile Sensibility A Fiber Arts Fabrication & Exhibition Center In Dublin, Ireland, Elizabeth Fallon
Urban Fabrication: The Architectural Heightening Of The Urban Tactile Sensibility A Fiber Arts Fabrication & Exhibition Center In Dublin, Ireland, Elizabeth Fallon
Honors Capstone Projects - All
The discipline of fiber arts has been in existence since the beginning of civilization to produce both functional equipment as well as aesthetically driven art pieces. The craft, at times highly specialized, often produces elements at the scale of the human body, due to the personal level by which fiber artifacts are produced. The making of artifacts and implementation of fiber art strategies have simultaneous cultural, environmental, formal, and gender-related relationships and implications. The design, construction and experience of buildings and inhabitable space at all scales can benefit from these relationships.
It is the contention of this thesis to merge …
Architecture For Disparate Communities In Transitional China: Urban Housing Stitch For Chinese Migrant Workers And City Dwellers In Rapidly Urbanizing Cities, Jennifer Hoi Ling Ha
Architecture For Disparate Communities In Transitional China: Urban Housing Stitch For Chinese Migrant Workers And City Dwellers In Rapidly Urbanizing Cities, Jennifer Hoi Ling Ha
Honors Capstone Projects - All
Problem:
Two housing types in China’s urban cities serve two specific demographics, the city dweller and the migrant worker. The high-rise and the urban village reside on the same block of land but cannot coexist. In order to save the urban villages from being demolished and to keep the migrant worker population within the city, there needs to be a more appropriate and aggressive housing concept to address China’s “changing contemporary social reality” between the two demographic.
Methodology:
The first step is to understand the two typologies of housing. Through the study of migrant housing typologies in different major …
Conspicuous Space: Parking Lot Suburbanism, Ian Nicholson
Conspicuous Space: Parking Lot Suburbanism, Ian Nicholson
Honors Capstone Projects - All
What can be accomplished without a car? In a city: everything. In a suburb: nothing. Without a car, one cannot escape the city. Without a city, one cannot escape the car. Neither city nor suburb is an ideal habitat. The city has no nature. The suburb has no culture. What’s good about the suburbs over the city? According to economics: houses.
The American dream has long been “one’s own house with a private yard” (Nelesson xi); an acre and a mule for every free citizen. But this dream has created distance; a nightmare of endless commutes and oil addiction. What …
Undermining Impasse: The Role Of Architecture In The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Laura Ondrich
Undermining Impasse: The Role Of Architecture In The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Laura Ondrich
Honors Capstone Projects - All
Undermining Impasse: The Role of Architecture in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Abstract
Laura Ondrich
Architecture is political, in that it can be used to further an authority’s agenda, and the relationship between peoples under that authority can be affected by it. As the political tool of a ruling power, architecture in a place of ongoing conflict may propel the conflict and submit to its perpetuity at the detriment of participating peoples. Though politics are often considered intangible, certain conflicts exist in real space, thus there is an opportunity for architecture to create an influence. In this case where architecture - concrete …
Application Of Pv Panels In Large Multi-Story Buildings, Sara Kayal
Application Of Pv Panels In Large Multi-Story Buildings, Sara Kayal
Master's Theses
Application of PV Panels in Large Multi-Story Buildings Feasibility Study Sara Kayal
The awareness of global warming along with an ever increasing demand for a new source of energy has brought a strong interest in harnessing natural resources such as solar energy. This thesis evaluates the viability of applying photovoltaic (PV) panels in high-rise commercial buildings of around 20 stories. Specifically, the thesis is intended to provide a pre-planning tool during the early design stage for architects and designers who are considering the deployment of PV panels in new multi-story construction.
The first three chapters cover a comprehensive literature review …
Substituting Residential Rainwater Harvesting And Greywater Reuse For Public Water Supply: Tools For Evaluating The Public Cost, Jennifer L. Ferguson
Substituting Residential Rainwater Harvesting And Greywater Reuse For Public Water Supply: Tools For Evaluating The Public Cost, Jennifer L. Ferguson
Master's Theses
The intent of this project is to provide tools for public administrators to implement and evaluate the cost of an alternative on-site residential water supply using rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse in their jurisdiction. These tools are then applied to the city of San Luis Obispo (SLO), California as a case study to demonstrate how rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse could be implemented to supply all residential potable and non-potable water needs, completely replacing the current centralized publicly-managed water system. Further, energy and direct fiscal costs of the alternative system are compared with the current system. A cost analysis is …
Green | Instruction, Christine C. Ritson
Green | Instruction, Christine C. Ritson
Honors Capstone Projects - All
If society shows the need for a re-engagement with its surrounding nature in order to develop conscious environmental decisions, then a pre-kindergarten through fifth grade school, with the careful design and testing of materials, courtyards, and circulation strategy, will be the vehicle through which everyday decisions are taught at the earliest age.
Problem | Statistics | 20 percent of Americans go to school every day, equating to 55 million students and nearly 5 million teachers and staff. More than 25 percent of those students and teachers are going to school in inadequate facilities where their health is at risk.[1] …
The Naturing Spa: Recovering An Ecological Kinship With Newtown Creek, John Jedzinak
The Naturing Spa: Recovering An Ecological Kinship With Newtown Creek, John Jedzinak
Honors Capstone Projects - All
Abstract not Included
Design Outfit An Interdisciplinary Think + Act Tank, Douglas Jack
Design Outfit An Interdisciplinary Think + Act Tank, Douglas Jack
Honors Capstone Projects - All
The Design Outfit is a real project derived from a conceptual program. The program, or set of concepts from which the project sprang, critically approached three aspects of design practice:
I) reality: how design proceeds from initial sketches to finishing touches, with all steps and scales given comparable attention
II) collaboration: how designers interface with one another and others throughout a design process
III) social awareness: how designers can shape and place their efforts in relation to social significance
The project was designed to explore and test these aspects of design.
Based at Henninger High, a public Syracuse City school …
Weaving: Redesigning The Post Colonial Town Through African Cultural Traditions, Henry Walela Musangi
Weaving: Redesigning The Post Colonial Town Through African Cultural Traditions, Henry Walela Musangi
Masters Theses
“They [Africans] look upon their native arts and crafts primarily as the ‘locus’ of their national consciousness. In spite of a violent urge for the new, for progress and for high living standards, more and more of their valuable, innate culture and customs now are being reflected upon in new light, finding their own voice in the form of a new, healthy and surprisingly expressive art.”
“The ‘new’ is cleansed from any cliché imitating a style.
The ‘new’ does not evolve from cheap modernism.
The ‘new’ functions according to the climate and the situation.
The ‘new’ proves to have an …
The Decline Of Log House Construction In Blount County, Tennessee, John T. Morgan
The Decline Of Log House Construction In Blount County, Tennessee, John T. Morgan
Doctoral Dissertations
The log house is an important element of architectural heritage of much of the eastern United States. In some areas, such as East Tennessee, log construction was not replaced by frame construction until the late nineteenth century.
Several reasons have been presented in the literature for the decline of log house construction, but none of them had been tested empirically. This study determined to what extent the reasons given for the decline of the log house construction explain the decline of log dwelling construction in Blount County, Tennessee. The study analyzed the influence of five factors: (1) relative affluence of …
Adecuación Y Preservación Paisajista Para El Municipio De Chía, Hugo José Rincón Pérez
Adecuación Y Preservación Paisajista Para El Municipio De Chía, Hugo José Rincón Pérez
Arquitectura
No abstract provided.
Designing An Energy Efficient School, Arthur La Cues
Designing An Energy Efficient School, Arthur La Cues
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.