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Details Matter: A Pavilion For India In Venice, Rajkumar Kadam

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis proposes a national pavilion for India at the Venetian Arsenal, one of the sites for the Venice Biennale. The design of a pavilion for India at the Venice Biennale is an opportunity to understand architecture as a vehicle that illustrates values that are simultaneously universal, and culturally specific. While the proposed Indian pavilion incorporates the details that define Indian architecture, they are appropriated to the highly articulate Venetian context because principally, Indian architecture is malleable and fits within its local environment. This cross-cultural representation is accomplished through symbolic relationships to natural elements and site, abstract architectonic form and …

Blur Out, Hye Rim Shin

Architecture Senior Theses

Blur Out explores ideas about architecture that seeks ephemerality rather than legibility, eidetic affects rather than demand of focused attention and atmospheric or emotional spaces rather than conventional spaces.

The exploration of Blur Out is situated within the research topic of different states of snow that are generated from avalanche phenomena of Iceland, which develops site specific understandings of the phenomena and effects. The project aims to build a blurred boundary both literally and experientially between the built and natural environment to challenge representing and re-presenting the spectrum of tangibility to intangibility. By exploring the dichotomy between the built and …

The Oppelaland: An Underground Refugee Theme Park In Aleppo, Rui Bao

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis operates on the perception of Syrian refugees as a threat and a burden to European countries by architectural means.

In emergency situations, architecture tends to act only after the conflict by providing temporary aid, such as refugee camps. This kind of emergency remedy displaces a large number of refugees to countries all over the world. Refugees may be discriminated and treated as second class citizens in the host countries. They may be restricted in small areas like prisoners rather than citizens with equal rights.

This thesis propose a hyper-real project in the form of "Refugeeland" to call attention …

Y'All Come Back Now, Ya Hear: A Reflection On Nashville's History And The Carnivalesque, Kolby Forbes

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis seeks to utilize the technique of allegorical image in understanding both the past and present histories of Nashville. By collaging aspects of past and present, the images produced seek to present the emerging alternative. This otherness constructs an in between in which the narratives of both instances begin to merge and mutate. These collages establish a landscape of Nashville which is no longer constricted temporally or spatially, remaining open to interpretations and resisting a clear sense of closure. The designs that I propose are meant to clarify the neglected traumas and occurrences of the past to demonstrate that …

Ritual Place, Dabota Wilcox

Architecture Senior Theses

What is a ritual? Its connotations are rooted in the vocabulary of religion, but essentially a ritual is a repeated or singularly significant act meant to instill a deeper meaning or reinforce a belief. Beliefs are supported through the practice of rituals. Rituals are special because they facilitate experiences that separate us from the mundane. They serve to pull its participants to recognize and participate in something of worth. But what would it mean to imagine the new ritual? If for a moment this distinction were expanded there are countless moments, activities, or seemingly insignificant acts that could be considered …

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.

Framing The Future: Imagining The City Through The Lens Of Film, Sofia Zavala Ferreira

Architecture Senior Theses

With a great interest in the relationship between film and architecture, this project establishes its subject matter on the possibilities presented in science fiction cinema and speculative design. By extracting attributes from these that would influence design and architectural concerns, a bridge between the disconnected imagined and real, current and future, can be created through the creation of a speculative scenario and a narrative.

It seeks to utilize cinematic design and storytelling conventions to successfully convey the desired atmosphere, architectural realities, and life conditions of a fictional city. By utilizing advanced digital techniques often used in cinema itself, including but …

Rural Retreat | Urban Myth, Celeste Pomputius

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis proposes a destination for recreation and retreat on Plum Island, New York that references the model of the National and State Park Services and whose intended audience is primarily residents of New York City who are without the means or methods of easily seeking other experiences of nature outside the realm of city limits. The first step of this design process involves reexamining the traditional definition of “urban” to shorten the leap from the comforts of the city to the unknowns of nature. From there, the project identifies and resolves three challenges that stand between urban residents and …

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 …

Banimi Individual, Ardi Zhubi

Theses and Dissertations

Banimi individual paraqet bazën e zhvillimit të banimit dhe jetës së njerëzve në përgjithësi, duke qenë se është lloji i parë i banimit i cili shfaqet qysh në parahistori, në forma të ndryshme dhe primitive por që vazhdojnë dhe evaluojnë me kalimn e kohës, deri në fazën ku ndodhet sot banimi individual. Ky lloj i banimit mbetet ende si mënyra më e shpeshtë e banimit si dhe më e kërkura, duke u bazuar edhe në zonat e zhvillimit si ekonomik ashtu edhe infrastrukturor. Krahas zhvillimit të banimit individual, paraqitet edhe zhvillimi dhe evaluimi i familjes, duke qenë se në të …

Stadium Futbolli, Gazmend Abazi

Theses and Dissertations

This diploma thesis provides the project of a Football stadium which is located in the heart of the capital city of Kosovo, Pristina. Frequent changes of people’s lifestyles has leaded and created the need to improve the general qualities of living. The fact that most of the population in Kosovo is covered by youth indicates that cities need to provide more public recreational spaces where people could gather and socialize. Among that, it’s obvious that most of the youth are interested in sports and especially in football, so a new football stadium is more than needed at this time. Designing …

Stacion I Autobusëve, Ermira Hoxha

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Projektimi Dhe Konstruksioni I Villave, Kimete Ademi

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Villë Private, Ruzhdi Dakaj

Theses and Dissertations

Pasi që në vendin tonë te gjithë pretendojn të kalojn në pjesët më të afërta të qytetit,punës dhe institucioneve shtetrore për nevojat e tyre.

Mbas shumë mendimeve dhe analizave kam mendu që jeta më e mirë dhe më e shëndetshme është në fshatra malore.

Ky punim tregon apo i inspiron që një familje e cila ju është bërë kompleks pjesa e qytetit dhe që të kalojn në fshat dhe të ndërtojn një villë private.

Kjo villë ka një familje mesatare,ku aty i përmban gjërat elementare me hapsira lukse të cilat duhet ti ketë një familje.

Metodat që kam përdorur për …

Trashëgimia E Re Urbane Në Prishtinë, Rrustem Brahimi

Theses and Dissertations

Fillimisht dua të flas për dashurinë. Sepse të ditur e kemi se nuk buron nga mendja, buron nga zemra. Me këtë vijmë në një pikë kur duhet t’a ndryshojmë edhe mendim se mendimet tona vijnë nga truri jonë. Sepse mendimin për dashurin dhe çdo gjë tjetër na e sjell zemra. Mendja është një filtrues dhe memorizues i mendimeve që burojnë nga zemra dhe i informatave që pranojm nga jasht. Ashtu siq është edhe veshi burim i të pamurit. Kur flasim për dashurinë padyshim se nga zemra buron edhe mendimi për bukurin të cilën e dashurojmë.

Si duket bukuria e dashuris …

Villë Luksoze, Vaid Asllani

Theses and Dissertations

Ndryshimet e vazhdueshme dhe konceptet e ripërtëritura të stilit të jetesës së njerëzve sjellin dhe krijojnë gjithnjë e më tepër nevoja për kualitetet e përgjithshme të banimit. Për më tepër kërkesat për vila dhe rezidenca kane marshuar drejtë sferës së dimensionit psikologjik dhe kulturor. Si rrjedhojë edhe ka lindur një trend i ri dizajni dhe kërkesa të reja për qasjen ambientale, organizimin e kthinave, përzgjedhjen e materialeve dhe konceptin e dizajnit. Kjo qasje rezulton në krijimin e hapësirave më natyrale për banim dhe më të përshtatshme duke përdorur gjuhën më natyrale dhe më të pastër të dizajnit, duke u dhëne …

The Impact Of Walkability On Home Values: Findings From Neighborhoods In Three Bay Area Citites, Jonathan Turner

City and Regional Planning

No abstract provided.

Defining The Edge: Programming Louisiana’S Working Coast, Renzi James Terrebonne

Honors Capstones

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Wrong Features: Re-Framing The Everyday Through What It's Not And What It's Near, Paul J. Lee

Architecture Senior Theses

In the world’s ubiquity of images and growth of visual culture, it is appropriate to reconsider images as a source for producing architecture. Search engines and image-based social media illustrate Jacque Ranciere’s alterity of images - that images are autonomous from and other than the objects they represent - to a degree like never before. Given this vast field of images that make up our perception of reality, this thesis exposes and embraces the inherent distinctions between images and their represented objects to arrive at an architectural sensibility of distinction and otherness. By re-drawing, re-imaging, and re-presenting Bernd & Hilla …

@The_New_House: An Online-Offline Manifesto, Ana Hernandez Derbez, Domenica Velasco

Architecture Senior Theses

The house, is one of the most fundamental architectural archetypes, has long been used as unbuilt or built manifestos to declare the avant garde of the discipline. As designers, we need to re-visualize design concepts to create architecture that integrates and corresponds to the way we dwell. Innovating design in the same way technology and digitalization have been innovating production and the way we live. This thesis investigates a return to the design of a house as a manifesto, focusing on today’s advanced modes of fabrication and evolving ways of living to challenge the current design mindset.