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Clarkston: A Place For The [Dis]Placed, Elizabeth Nguyen
Clarkston: A Place For The [Dis]Placed, Elizabeth Nguyen
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
This thesis explores architecture explicitly programmed for the uniqueness in Clarkston’s multicultural population diversity and their needs for assimilation where current resources are fragmented and some non-existent, lacking a real sense of community. I am proposing a master plan and a building to cater to the refugee families’ adaptation to America in a social, economic, educational and cultural context where diverse groups of people can co-exist to better assimilate into society.
Community-Based Healthcare | Interlace Of Biophilic Design In Outpatient Facilities, Joshua Robinson
Community-Based Healthcare | Interlace Of Biophilic Design In Outpatient Facilities, Joshua Robinson
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
This thesis questions how architects can redesign typical healthcare typology in response to the medical and sociological needs of the community while integrating the measures of wellness and biophilic design. By redefining architectural programs within a wellness clinic, this can allow the facility to prioritize the communities needs through non-medical determinants. The research will look at both the social and medical needs of a community, along with the Seven Standards of Wellness as defined by the Well Building Standard and The Fourteen Patterns of Biophilic Design as defined by the Terrapin Bright Green, to develop a connection between the facility …
Headspace: Architecture For Mental Health, Courtney Wise
Headspace: Architecture For Mental Health, Courtney Wise
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
This thesis proposes a mental wellness center that will act as a free resource for mental health services, specifically anxiety and depression. The goal of this project is to create a resource that will help mitigate the ignorance around mental health by educating the public, creating opportunities for positive social interaction, and giving the scholastic and residential communities a safe place to examine their individual mental health. This will be accomplished by finding mediators between clinical and non-clinical types of program.
Rooted: Cultivating Social Inclusiveness + Food Equity, Andrew Newman
Rooted: Cultivating Social Inclusiveness + Food Equity, Andrew Newman
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
From great tragedy comes greater opportunity. Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans found itself in the midst of an unprecedented civic disaster after being abandoned by the state and ignored by the federal government. Outrage and concern about the slow political response culminated in the creation of a citizen-driven food network. This local food network consists of community-based farms and organizations that devoted their resources and time to providing under-served residents with sustained access to fresh produce. These local farms and gardens primarily began to sprout up in the hardest hit and most restricted of neighborhoods. …