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The Role Of Healing Gardens, Kalina K. Vander Poel, Zgf

Research-Based Design Initiative

The overarching objective of this research is to expand the dialogue of the role of healing gardens in hospitals. In order to understand the role of healing gardens in hospitals, it is important to determine how and to what extent the healing garden is being used. By expanding this dialogue we can reaffirm the legitimacy of current approaches such as design criteria and the program. When the perception and role of healing gardens in hospitals is understood, research based design decisions can improve the quality of life for patients, providers, and visitors.

Casino Architecture Wars: A History Of How Las Vegas Developers Compete With Architectural Design, Stefan Al

Occasional Papers

This paper explores how Las Vegas casino devel opers have competed with architectural design. Throughout history, they emphasized different elements of the casino complex. This paper will examine three of the most heated wars that occurred between casinos over such elements: the swimming pool wars of the 1950s, the sign wars of the 1960s, and the porte cochère wars of the 1970s. This paper argues how, in the face of competition, each of these elements evolved into truly unique forms that differed greatly from other places. In its relentless pursuit to attract visitors, Las Vegas lay on the forefront of …

Navigating The Norm: The Women Of The Drennan Family, Melanie Parker

Historic Preservation Final Projects

No abstract provided.

Historic American Buildings Survey St. Joseph Church, Erin Berger

Historic Preservation Final Projects

No abstract provided.

Living Like Jesus, Becky St. Clair

Lake Union Herald

No abstract provided.

Energy Analysis Of Cool, Medium, And Dark Roofs On Residential Buildings In The U.S., Michael A. Dunbar

Open Access Theses

This study reports an energy analysis of cool, medium, and dark roofs on residential buildings in the U.S. Three analyses were undertaken in this study: energy consumption, economic analysis, and an environmental analysis. The energy consumption reports the electricity and natural gas consumption of the simulations. The economic analysis uses tools such as simple payback period (SPP) and net present value (NPV) to determine the profitability of the cool roof and the medium roof. The variable change for each simulation model was the roof color. The default color was a dark roof and the results were focused on the changes …

Beaverton High School, Katie Barmore-Mccollum, Nicole De Jong, Sergio Palleroni, Huafen Hu, Reid Weber, Pae

Research-Based Design Initiative

The intended task was to study early massing concepts for climate responsiveness using Sefaira as an analytical tool. We were to work rapidly to analyze a series of massing concepts during the schematic design phase and provide feedback to the Boora design team to determine which factors/outputs to be studied such as daylighting, energy use, and building orientation. We received three massing models from Boora to study in Sefaira and compare EUI, Fabric Conduction Loss, Peak heating hours, and Monthly Consumption. Some of the results we were coming to evolved the initial task and drove this project down a different …

330 West Vine Street Oxford, Ohio, Colleen Clinton

Historic Preservation Final Projects

This final project is the culmination of my master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University. For this project I focused on my family’s house in Oxford, Ohio. My intention was to create a succinct report on the structure to document both the interior and exterior of the home. To document this unique structure I first created a Historic American Building Survey, next I completed the Ohio Historic Inventory Form, and produced drawings of elevations and floor plans. The reason I selected this structure for my final project is because it is one of the only Arts and Crafts …

Faubion Pk-8 School: Daylight Analysis, Sergio Palleroni, Haufen Hu, Adam Mcsorley, Katherine Odell, Valeriya Shcheglova, Boora Architects

Research-Based Design Initiative

Light is the first thing that captures your eye after you are born and is often the last th ing you see before you fall asleep. Light makes humans, objects, spaces, architecture and everything we see around us visib le by its reflection. Everyday, people are confronted with light and shadow, two elements that are complementary. Daylight is a natu ral element that changes every minute, caused by the rotation of the earth around the sun. It informs us of days, time, seasons, which causes humans have to surrender to this. Architecture must adapt this element in its design process. …

Examining Feasibility Of Thermal Mass For Passive Heating And Cooling In The Pacific Northwest, Portland State University. School Of Architecture

Research-Based Design Initiative

Scientifically, thermal mass is equivalent to thermal capacitance or heat capacity, the ability of a body to store thermal energy.

In building design, thermal mass is a property of the mass of a building which enables it to store heat, providing “inertia” against temperature fluctuations. For example, when outside temperatures are fluctuating throughout the day, a large thermal mass within the insulated portion of a house can serve to “flatten out” the daily temperature fluctuations, since the thermal mass will absorb thermal energy when the surroundings are higher in temperature than the mass, and give thermal energy back when the …

Envelope Optimization Analysis For South Cooper Mountain High School: Setaira Web-Application, Juan C. Garduno, Mike Manzi, Corey T. Griffin, Boora Architects

Research-Based Design Initiative

Research Goals:

1. Identify Sefaira’s energy simulation limitations Goals:

2. Identify successful Sefaira strategies/setting compared to eQuest strategies/settings

The Man Who Dies Rich, Dies Disgraced: The Carnegie Vision Of Library As Place, Amanda C.R. Clark

Library Faculty Scholarship

Andrew Carnegie’s vision of the library as a place for intellectual elevation through the introspective act of reading offered the promise of increased prosperity and wisdom to persons in all walks of life. The architecture of Spokane’s Carnegie library spoke of this promise through its neoclassical façade and visual references to an age revered for civilized accomplishment. While some of these sentiments have fallen out of favor, the underlying principle of encouraging curious engagement by inspirational architecture remains true for libraries today.

Poster presented at the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Seattle, WA.

Impact Of Corporate Sustainability Behavior On Financial Performance In Aerospace Companies, Petulia Blake

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sustainability is increasingly becoming an integral part of how organizations communicate their business operation to stakeholders. As it is common knowledge that organizations are more inclined to invest in programs that contribute to their bottom-line, this study presents an analysis of the relationship between corporate sustainability behaviors and their impact on financial performance. The sample size was 40 United States (U.S.) aerospace companies, selected from the “Top 100 Aerospace Companies” world-wide in a report produced by Candesic consulting firm in 2012. Of the 40 U.S. companies, 21 were found to provide some form of sustainability report. Quantitative and qualitative instruments …

Psu Business School Renovation + Personal Comfort, Abolfazl Mekanik, Corey T. Griffin, Srg Partnership

Research-Based Design Initiative

Assessing the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is the first step to design a low energy building and to ensure the comfort of the occupants are satisfied based on high quality standards. Schools are a category of buildings in which a high level of environmental quality considerably improves occupants' attention, concentration, learning, hearing and performances. A common practice to evaluate thermal comfort and indoor air quality perception is to assess the occupants' satisfaction regarding the indoor environment.

The SRG design group intended to renovate the PSU Business school and use passive strategies in order to reduce the amount of energy. The …

From Monuments To Ruins: An Analysis Of Historical Preservation In Jordan, Mason Seymore

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The city of Amman, Jordan manages a plethora of archaeological sites that date back several millennia. Unfortunately, with the limited resources the government has at its disposal, the city is unable to conserve the sites in the best way possible. Because of this, a public disconnect between the value of history and attempts that are made to preserve it has emerged. This study explored the effects of historical conservation in Jordanian society. More specifically, the study focused on the relationship between how the public and the government perceives historical conservation efforts in Jordan. This study attempted to answer two research …

The Bridge Newsletter Winter 2014, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

The Bridge Newsletter

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“Put The Church Right There”: A Study Of The Inclusion Of Congregational Structures Within New Urbanist Developments, Matthew L. Pierce

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Beginning with the development of Seaside (Walton County, FL), Kentlands (Gaithersburg, MD), and Laguna West (Elk Grove, CA), New Urbanist developments have set aside parcels for civic structures, many of which now house congregations. Using interviews with developers, planners, and church officials, this thesis examines the rationale behind including congregations within New Urbanist developments in four southeastern states (Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina). The expectations of New Urbanist developers largely mirror those found within key New Urbanist texts: congregational structures help create a legible landscape through typological architecture and conspicuous siting while providing space for public gathering. The …

Analyzing Daylight Autonomy: New Dining Hall At George Fox University, Katie Barmore-Mccollum, Corey T. Griffin, Tha

Research-Based Design Initiative

THA Architecture is designing a dining hall for George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. The school has out-grown their current dining hall and is in need of a larger space. This is a new construction project of 30,000 sf and with a budget of $200 a square foot. The program includes; dining space, dining space that can be closed off with folding walls, a café, cafeteria food pick-up area, kitchen, bakery, offices, and restrooms. The building is split in half by the program, the west half is the dinning space (enclosed by window walls) and the east half is the …

Fairbanks Wall System Study, Zach Hampton, Asmait Zeleke, Sergio Palleroni, Reid Weber, Haufen Hu, Zgf

Research-Based Design Initiative

The purpose of this study was to understand and develop the best wall system possible for ZGF Architects to potentially implement into future projects in the city of Fairbanks.Alaska that requires a wall system to reach at least R-30. ZGF has been working on an 80.000 square foot surgical addition to the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and ask for our research to infonn future insulation system selections. The extreme climate of Fairbanks.Alaska is what makes this project unique and challenging and then you add to that a medical program that requires different interior temperatures for each program. The hospital currently uses …

"Let's Go Shopping At The Square" Cleveland's Leading Downtown Department Stores: A Business Legacy, Richard Klein

Cleveland Memory

This book is a tribute to the eight major downtown Cleveland department stores and their many loyal customers. For over 150 years, these large stores dominated the local retail scene. They represented exciting places that not only provided a full range of goods and services all under one roof, but also, offered a special shopping adventure every time their customers visited.