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Environmental Value Engineering Assessment Of Horizontal Directional Drilling And Open Cut, Lameck Onsarigo

Master of Technology Management Plan II Graduate Projects

There has been a growing concern over the rate of deterioration of wastewater collection and water distribution systems in the United States. The ever-growing need for rehabilitation and replacement of these systems has led to the birth of a research program by the United States Environmental Protection Agency focused on addressing the water infrastructure needs. This program-Innovation and Research for Water Infrastructure for the 21st Century-lays emphasis on research focused on system rehabilitation. There is a marked change in the way that the public view the environmental needs with ‘green’ becoming ‘the new gold’. Man has been blamed, and rightfully …

A Didactic Architecture: Rural Early Education, Vasiliy Lakoba

Architecture Senior Theses

A thesis on rural early education. An architectural intervention in a winter climate.

Innovation And Harmonization In Raphael's Stanza Della Segnatura, Nathan Cornelius

Library Research Prize Student Works

Raphael's paintings for the Stanza della Segnatura, Pope Julius II's personal library in the Vatican, are one of the great masterpieces of Renaissance art. My research project explored the rich meaning behind this innovative series of images, which project an expansive and holistic view of truth. I discovered that Raphael's message is relevant for Christians today who are trying to preserve a coherent view of truth in a complex, pluralistic culture.

Seep Ridge Road Paving Project Environmental Assessment, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Environmental Assessments (UT)

This Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared to disclose and analyze the environmental consequences of the Seep Ridge Road Paving Project as proposed by Uintah County (hereafter referred to as the county). The EA is a site-specific analysis of potential impacts that could result with the implementation of the Proposed Action or an alternative to the Proposed Action. The EA assists the BLM in project planning and in making a determination as to whether any “significant” impacts could result from the analyzed actions. An EA also provides evidence for determining whether a statement of “Finding of No Significant Impact” (FONSI) …

How Architectural Ruins Entice The Observers' Engagement: The Hermeneutical Function Of Distanciation, Rumiko Handa

Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

During my recent trip to England, at a dinner at a friend's house, I met a violinmaker based in London. 1 mentioned that I had assigned my students to design a workshop and small performance space for a well-known American violinmaker, who at that time had a workshop in a small town in Nebraska, not far from where 1 teach. The London violinmaker told me he was organizing people to work on a museum dedicated to violin making. After telling us how he eventually will have a place to display and even to let visitors listen to some rare and …

Black Market Tourism, Cristina Webb

Architecture Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

Geothermal Emancipator, Brygida Michon

Architecture Senior Theses

"Today as the factors determining nation’s independence are changing, Poland has a chance to decide on its political future and avoid the

involvement in the foreseen energy wars. It can happen through an appropriate utilization of its renewable energy resources on a larger scale,

which can ensure its nation‘s energy demand stability and therefore political concord.

The types of renewable resource that can best support the energy economy vary in different countries and climates. The choice of renewable

technology to be applied in a location should be supported by existing site conditions in order to determine which has the best …

(Re)Formulating The Informal: Architecture As Identity For A Community, J Sebastien Coles

Architecture Senior Theses

The identity associated with the inhabitants of the “Bidonvilles” of Haiti

is arguably nonexistent aside from its connection to the impoverished conditions

of the Haitian slum/shantytown. This thesis contends that with the

insertion of a reformative intervention in the heart of the community promoting

a conducive and educational environment while overlaying a currently

absent infrastructure, will help in creating a positive inner growth within

the informal typology. More specifically architecture will act as a form of

“pride of place,” enticing interaction through the direct connection to

culture.

Host City: Catalytic Alternatives For Olympic Planning, William Murillo

Architecture Senior Theses

"The modern Olympic Games exist as one of the most prolific mega-events in global culture, heralding proclamations of peace,pan-unification, and sodality. A mega event can be understood as a high profile, world interest spectacle existing on a short term basis with a series of implications (both beneficial and detrimental) for its host, including socio-economic impacts through generation of tourism and infrastructural advancements, short term/long term employment spikes, real-estate boosts, cost overrun, and an effective branding of the host city with a plethora of potential collective identity issues reliant on themes employed, generation of a legacy/global image and planning concerns, such …

Festival Urbanism, Gabriella Morrone

Architecture Senior Theses

"Festivals, as modes of architectural production, can exist as provocations for change in our urban environments. The festival exists as a moment in time and as a distributed system which allows for the transformative capacity of space and the reconsidering of present conditions. Negotiating its temporality, the festival provides a critique on our current and primarily static architectural manifestations and their relationships to our rapidly changing social environments. Festival Urbanism is an experimental design which models a mode of architectural practice rooted in participatory design. Simultaneously as the architect, the planner, and the curator, I propose the construction a virtual …

Stimulating Our Food Environment, Katharine Masciocchi

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis argues that architecture must be more than just the physical creation of space and become involved in the design of policies and sustainable systems, which support local food systems providing healthy food for all people regardless of income or race, helping to restore the environment rather than destroy it.

The Potential Impact Of Higher Education On Downtown Fort Worth, Institute Of Urban Studies

Institute of Urban Studies Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Urban Design Framework For Celina Along Preston Corridor, Srijana Shakya, Jianling Li

Planning Masters Professional Reports - Archive

The city of Celina is a small city located within Collin County in the northern part of the North Central Texas Metroplex. The city was a rural based community with a large percentage of agricultural land. However, over the past decade, Celina's population tripled from around 1800 to over 5200 people. Currently, the city is in a transition phase and is anticipated to grow and develop rapidly in the future. Development is predicted to occur first along Preston Corridor (SH 289), which runs through the city boundary, for two main reasons. First, the continual development trend along Preston Corridor in …

I Want To Ride My Bicycle: Why And How Cities Plan For Bicycle Infrastructure, Ryan Seher

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Detroit: Reproductive City, Marielle Vargas

Architecture Senior Theses

A Systems motivated test, coupling infrastructures and food processing for a productive city core.

Reconstructing The Berliner Schloss: Architecture And Memory After German Reunification, Scott Schwarzwalder

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis addresses the German government’s proposed reconstruction of Berlin’s city palace, the Stadtschloss, from a critical perspective. The exact replication of the old façades attempts to recreate a lost relationship in the city’s geographical and cultural center. An exploration of the layering of historical events and memories on the palace’s site show how they may be revealed and recalled. By analyzing case studies of reconstructed historic districts in Dresden and Warsaw, along with theories of preservation and memorialization, this thesis proposes an alternative to the artificial façade reconstruction. Through the coupling of museum program with a landscape garden, ‘found’ …

Selected Student Work 2010/2011, Thomas Fowler, Iv

Architecture

No abstract provided.

Adopting Game Technology For Architectural Visualization, Scott A. Schroeder

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

Current methods to display a new home in the architectural visualization industry involve long render times and hundreds of frames that require rendering. Many times, these virtual tours that are produced are slow, methodical, and limit the viewer's perspective of the home. This research looks into using computer game engines to display the virtual tour in real time, thus removing the long render time requirements and limited viewer perspective.

Working With Nature, Carolyn Brown

Architecture Theses and Projects

In order to receive the benefits of telecommuting while preventing a loss in social aspects, the proposed project is a new type of work environment that will be a combination of home and office. A place that provides the necessary technologies that are needed to be a telecommuter. A place that is away from the office and home but still holds the social aspects of an office and comfort of home. An alternate office, a telecommuting hub that contains flexible office space for long term use, temporary use, or day to day use for different businesses and organizations, assisted by …

Shop Like A Designer: How The Mass Media Perpetuates Non-Sustainable Design, B. Marie Minnich

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This study investigated the perception that mass media perpetuate critique of interior design projects using non-environmentally responsible design (non-ERD) assessment models, based on traditional ideological considerations, as opposed to models based on environmentally responsible design (ERD) philosophies. Using the Delphi technique, thirty keywords were selected, based on educators’ and practitioners’ content knowledge, then categorized into seven dimensions representing ERD or non-ERD attributes. These dimensions formed design assessment models, which included a distinction between ethical ERD attributes and aesthetic non-ERD attributes. Using content analysis, keywords were identified in randomly selected feature articles from three design magazines. Quantitative statistical analysis documented an …