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Du Quoin Youth Center: A Strategy For Preventing Underage Substance Abuse, Storm A. Clarry 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Du Quoin Youth Center: A Strategy For Preventing Underage Substance Abuse, Storm A. Clarry

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This project purposes a new Youth Center for Du Quoin Illinois, which will help combat underage drinking and other issues through engagement with the community.The center will provide entertainment not only for the youth but for the community as a whole by hosting local artist, bands, poets, comics, and allowing any youth members to preform and help bring the community together.


Morris, Illinois Community Youth Center, Kyle Eliakis 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Morris, Illinois Community Youth Center, Kyle Eliakis

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The town of Morris, IL currently struggles with providing adolescents with enough activities, inducing teens to start experimenting with drugs and alcohol. This proposed community center would provide ample opportunities to increase student engagement for the town’s youth to shy away from drugs and alcohol.


Siuc Dark Site Observatory, Teresa M. Meyer Ms. 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Siuc Dark Site Observatory, Teresa M. Meyer Ms.

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

A joint venture between the SIUC Physics department, which houses the astronomy curriculum, and the Architecture department has begun the planning for the two upcoming total solar eclipses in 2017 and 2024.


Mother's Room - Design | Build, Zoey Koester, Shelby Orr, Damian Smith, Andrew Estabrook, Sarah Barth, Caroline Simmons 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Mother's Room - Design | Build, Zoey Koester, Shelby Orr, Damian Smith, Andrew Estabrook, Sarah Barth, Caroline Simmons

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

The lack of a comfortable environment for mothers on campus was challenged by the Non-Traditional Student Services department of a public university this past year. The department recruited a team of architecture, interior-design, and construction management faculty and students to design and build a mother’s room for the campus library.


Touch Of Nature - Design Build, Katlyn Montague 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Touch Of Nature - Design Build, Katlyn Montague

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Touch of Nature, an educational facility that’s goal is to enhance learning of the natural environment, hired our Architecture Building Technology class to design and build several educational kiosks located along the Rocky Ledges Trail. These kiosks included signage that will educate hikers on the environment around them.


A Plan Of The Louvre's Cour Carrée And The Making Of The Architecture Française, Jean-François Bédard, Pierre-Édouard Latouche 2016 Syracuse University

A Plan Of The Louvre's Cour Carrée And The Making Of The Architecture Française, Jean-François Bédard, Pierre-Édouard Latouche

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

In November 1894 an album of drawings of the Louvre was auctioned in Paris. Contained within the album is an anonymous and undated plan of the ground floor of the Cour Carrée. This article argues that the survey for this plan was sponsored by educator and architect Jacques-François Blondel, and give evidence for this attribution.


Urban Lift, 2016 Vocational Training Council

Urban Lift

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

This summer, after eight months of development, three installations by young landscape architects from HKDI will be unveiled at the prestigious Tamar site on Hong Kong's harbour front. Daisy Zhong reports on a project that seeks to create an engaging destination for city residents.


Let’S Stop Calling This A Crisis And Start Building More Homes, Lorcan Sirr 2016 Technological University Dublin

Let’S Stop Calling This A Crisis And Start Building More Homes, Lorcan Sirr

Media

Over the past couple of years I have made a concerted effort not to use the phrase “housing crisis”, and I’ve been doing quite well, too. Recently, however, I have been using the dreaded phrase more often than I like. I don’t like the word “crisis” because it often gets abused, and although I’m talking about housing here, the same point can be applied to many economic and social problems and solutions.


Mcmurray, Becky (Fa 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2016 Western Kentucky University

Mcmurray, Becky (Fa 988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 988. Project titled: “Folk Housing: Deatsville and Bardstown, Kentucky.” Project includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of the informant’s beliefs and superstitions as well as information abpit structures in the Deatsville and Bardstown areas of Nelson County, Kentucky. Sheets may include a brief description, informant’s name, motif index number of the belief, and a photo of the structure.


Wilson, Phillip L., B. 1952 (Fa 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2016 Western Kentucky University

Wilson, Phillip L., B. 1952 (Fa 986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 986. Project titled: “Folk Structures in My Community.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of structures in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and a photo of the structure.


Nunn, Bobby (Fa 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2016 Western Kentucky University

Nunn, Bobby (Fa 977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 977. Project titled: “The Dairy Barns of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century of Western Metcalfe County.” Project includes descriptions of two dairy barns and agricultural structures in Metcalfe County, Kentucky. Survey sheets include a brief description, informant’s name, and a photo or illustration of the barn or structure.


Owens, Ronald (Fa 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2016 Western Kentucky University

Owens, Ronald (Fa 978), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 978. Project titled: “Milltown, Kentucky.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of the buildings around Milltown in Adair County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description and photo of the structure.


Bostic, Patti (Fa 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2016 Western Kentucky University

Bostic, Patti (Fa 966), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 966. Paper titled: “The Function of Various Barns Located in Jefferson County, Outside Jeffersontown.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions of barns in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description, owner’s name, terms, and a photo of the barn.


Space To Grow, 2016 Vocational Training Council

Space To Grow

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Dutch-born designer Rosan Bosch is a master of interior design with strong opinions about how to improve the way we work, learn and play, as HKDI students discovered when she led an innovative workshop in Hong Kong.


A Frank Talk, 2016 Vocational Training Council

A Frank Talk

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Founded just ten years ago, Gravity has evolved into one of Hong Kong's most interesting and influential design and architecture partnerships. And yet the company was born in the most difficult circumstances.


Learning Curve, 2016 Vocational Training Council

Learning Curve

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute designed the Hong Kong Design Institute. Two and a half years after it opened they reflect on what the building has taught them about sustainability in architecture.


Molden, Roy (Fa 963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2016 Western Kentucky University

Molden, Roy (Fa 963), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 963. Project titled: “The Chestnut Farmstead.” Includes survey sheets with brief descriptions ofbuildings and implements on the Chestnut family farm in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Sheets include a brief description and photo.


Designing Sustainable Communities For Automated Transit Networks, Shannon S. McDonald 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Designing Sustainable Communities For Automated Transit Networks, Shannon S. Mcdonald

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

Automated Transit Networks have the potential of changing the design of communities. Transportation is one of the key aspects for structuring our built environment. Now that Automated Transit Networks are being re-examined, early studies integrating them into the built environment can provide insight into their potential applications.


Rethinking The Design Models Of Refugee Camps, Ruba Bdair Mrs. 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Rethinking The Design Models Of Refugee Camps, Ruba Bdair Mrs.

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This research aims to find architectural and urban design related solutions to enhance the living conditions of refugees, and to lessen the burden on the refugee hosting communities.


Buildings As An Assembly Of 3d Printed Components, Stephen S. Lauer 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Buildings As An Assembly Of 3d Printed Components, Stephen S. Lauer

ASA Multidisciplinary Research Symposium

This project aimed to design a series of components that would be assembled to become a house. The design is a house that is printed in a series of modules and assembled using a series of printed connectors for not only attaching the modules but also used in other various details.


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