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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Fresh Flow: Where The City Meets The Sea, Wanqin Su
Fresh Flow: Where The City Meets The Sea, Wanqin Su
LSU Master's Theses
The significance of this site lies in its location. It is three miles away from French Quarter, the heart and origin of the city, and eight miles away from Lake Borgne, as well as the Gulf. Regardless of the size, it distinguishes itself on the map as a wedge of green space inserted sharply into densely developed urban space. The site was prosperous cypress swamp six decades ago, too dense to identify lands and water underneath. However, after the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet was dug in the 1960s, it took less than 30 years for it to transformed into brackish …
Can We Make Chinatown A More Sustainable Environment: Rethinking And Remaking Chinatown, San Francisco?, Zhen Wang
LSU Master's Theses
Since nineteen century, Chinese immigrants in the United States had a great contribution to the economy and transformation of landscape by gold mining, transcontinental railroad construction and agriculture cultivation, applying techniques that were learned from ancestors thousands years ago in China. And Chinatown as the first destination of continuing Chinese immigrants transformed from a ghetto to the top tourist attraction of the city in San Francisco with commercial-oriented development in more than a hundred years. This paper will explore the transformation of the image and representation of Chinatown by analyzing Chinese culture influences, American confinement, and pop culture impact, to …
#Cone-Versation: A Tactical Urbanist Experiment, Yifu Liu
#Cone-Versation: A Tactical Urbanist Experiment, Yifu Liu
LSU Master's Theses
The thesis intends to introduce tactical urbanism as a way to expand the toolkit for designers to communicate with theirs audiences from the public. Lessons from the post-Katrina planning processes urges for better communication tool that invites broader conversation while providing more direct physical outcome from the process. Tactical urbanism is introduced to the city and the discipline of landscape architecture in order to provide a fresh solution to the communication by changing the speech between the authority figure and the residents into a more personal conversation with an invitation through on-site installation. At the same time, it is a …
The Critical Vernacular Component A Material Exploration Mississippi River Basin, Louisiana, Nathaniel Frank
The Critical Vernacular Component A Material Exploration Mississippi River Basin, Louisiana, Nathaniel Frank
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
The Successional Grid, Erin Percevault
New Orleans, A City Of Layers Preventing Extinction, William Francis Reinhardt
New Orleans, A City Of Layers Preventing Extinction, William Francis Reinhardt
LSU Master's Theses
Preventing the loss of New Orleans occupies the minds of many designers in Louisiana. Great efforts to preserve the city are targeting the slow return to naturalization of the engineered river to find a new balance determined by plan formulators of the Federal government. Throughout history, many experimental movements have been born from the landscape architecture practice, and may be key to the future of New Orleans. Separate chapters are devoted towards the movements created by William Kent, Fletcher Steele, and Jens Jensen to explore as inspiration to be applied to coastal living. Finally, the future of New Orleans is …
The Cost Of Design: A Life-Cycle Assessment Of Green Infrastructure Technology, Cheryl Kaye Lough
The Cost Of Design: A Life-Cycle Assessment Of Green Infrastructure Technology, Cheryl Kaye Lough
LSU Master's Theses
Landscape architectural research of green infrastructural practices has increased dramatically over the last decade. Due to this research, many designers are suggesting some form of green infrastructure within their projects. Much of the present-day research focuses on function and not long term impacts of individual materials. The current rate of implementation of green infrastructures might not produce a drastic impact upon the environment, but with installations being realized at an ever-increasing and larger scales, even minute elements within the construction of these structures begin to influence the overall ecological footprint produced by our designs. Designers must re-evaluate the materiality of …
Using Stormwater Modeling In Iterative Site Design: An Integration Of Techniques From Engineering And Landscape Architecture, Brooke Erin Morris
Using Stormwater Modeling In Iterative Site Design: An Integration Of Techniques From Engineering And Landscape Architecture, Brooke Erin Morris
LSU Master's Theses
Landscape Architects currently do not have an efficient method for including stormwater quantities in early stages of their design process. With stormwater control infrastructure and theory rapidly shifting in favor of stormwater management with Green Infrastructure or Low Impact Development technologies (LIDs), landscape architects and planners are increasingly making layout and sizing decisions for stormwater design. Due to the development of modeling tools, it is now possible to rapidly produce quantifiable stormwater values for complex site designs at a range of scales. This paper proposes a methodology for the utilization of the EPA – Stormwater Management Model (SWMM), in conjunction …
Informal Landscape Architecture: A Tool To Improve Water Quality For Informal Settlements Along Waterways In Bangkok, Jidapa Chayakul
Informal Landscape Architecture: A Tool To Improve Water Quality For Informal Settlements Along Waterways In Bangkok, Jidapa Chayakul
LSU Master's Theses
The canals of Bangkok were a vital form of infrastructure from when the city was founded in 1782 until the 1850s, when the road system was introduced. Built for agricultural irrigation, the canals served as the primary means of transportation and significantly influenced the form and orientation of Bangkok’s early settlements and public institutions. With the implementation of roads, new buildings were constructed to be oriented towards the streets and away from the canals. The canals and their communities subsequently decreased in visibility. Today, most of the land along the waterways is publically owned. As a result, the land adjacent …
Revisit And Revise: The Introspective Approach To Reclamation And Redevelopment In Miami's Urban Core, Jescelle Renee Major
Revisit And Revise: The Introspective Approach To Reclamation And Redevelopment In Miami's Urban Core, Jescelle Renee Major
LSU Master's Theses
The human plays a vital role in the city and the city a vital role in the sustainability and resiliency of the future. It is imperative to explore all avenues for improvement and longevity. Now is the time to explore methods to strengthen the cities we have and the people who live there. This is especially true for coastal cities facing sea level rise and climate change. It is important now not to dwell on what we have lost but to seek methods for using the memory of a place to restore and build for the future. Recognizing there is …
The City’S Unnoticed Limits: Considerations About The Boundaries In Caracas, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
The City’S Unnoticed Limits: Considerations About The Boundaries In Caracas, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
Faculty Publications
In Caracas, insecurity has prompted an individual but generalized quest for isolation that is translated into an accelerated growth of boundaries as walls and fences. This situation has led to a significant deterioration of the spaces around them, setback space on one side and the street on the other, confined and divided, urban fabric if getting fragmented. The research wants then to illustrate this complex problem from a qualitative methodology and the hermeneutic circle, from which dialogical relationships are established between the elements analyzed. The main contributions of the research highlights the explanation of a reality that is happening nowadays …
Discussion Of The Contradictions Of The Contemporary Urban Landscape: The Case Of Caracas, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
Discussion Of The Contradictions Of The Contemporary Urban Landscape: The Case Of Caracas, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
Faculty Publications
In the ongoing debate between seemingly conflicting conditions, the author contrasts several features of urban landscape to dig deeper into the understanding of the current Caracas. An interpretative process allows viewing the city from a daily perspective of joy and suffering. The process takes into account different scales of approach, the relationship between buildings and emptiness, and the role of green in the city. Gradually the carelessness of Caracas’s urban landscape becomes evident, fed by little attention to the small scale, the clustering of individualistic interventions and the neglect of the natural component. Final considerations will show the urban landscape …
From The Spoils: Revitalizing Abandoned Coal Mines And Their Communities, Jamie Yousten
From The Spoils: Revitalizing Abandoned Coal Mines And Their Communities, Jamie Yousten
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Espacios Sucre: Interdisciplinary Program To Develop A System Of Small- And Medium-Scale Interventions In Public Spaces, Daniel Belandria, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
Espacios Sucre: Interdisciplinary Program To Develop A System Of Small- And Medium-Scale Interventions In Public Spaces, Daniel Belandria, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
Faculty Publications
With the accelerated growth of most Venezuelan cities, many of them show precarious settlements where residents seek to resolve their housing needs while services, facilities, and public spaces in particular hove been neglected. This is the case in Caracas and within the Municipality of Sucre, the second largest in size and population of the whole country. In this context. the Espacios Sucre Program, an interdisciplinary initiative with the main purpose of building networks of public space in both small and medium scales, not only works to confront the deficit but also to relate the contrasting areas of the Municipality and …
Processes Translated. From Design To Research, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
Processes Translated. From Design To Research, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro
Faculty Publications
The architect commonly looks at the products of his work, he acts and experiments upon them, while the processes that allowed him to reach those results usually do not get much attention. Thus, this discussion seeks to focus on the procedures to schedule its development and act with greater awareness to ultimately improve them. Research builds a platform for the exercise of a discipline based on self-criticism, interpretation and the cyclic path, on a qualitative methodological framework that allows addressing research from the expertise that architects naturally develop through training and practice. Apart from how far or near research and …
A High-Performance Concrete Design For The Charenton Canal Bridge On La. 87, Philip Alan Goppelt
A High-Performance Concrete Design For The Charenton Canal Bridge On La. 87, Philip Alan Goppelt
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Innovation Through Reuse Thoughtful Strategies For Adaptive Buildings, Sarah Gravois
Innovation Through Reuse Thoughtful Strategies For Adaptive Buildings, Sarah Gravois
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Wind Loading On Trees Integrated With A Building Envelope, Aly Mousaad Aly, Alberto Zasso, Girma Bitsuamlak, Alberto Nicola Longarini, Arindam Gam Chowdhury
Wind Loading On Trees Integrated With A Building Envelope, Aly Mousaad Aly, Alberto Zasso, Girma Bitsuamlak, Alberto Nicola Longarini, Arindam Gam Chowdhury
Faculty Publications
With the sustainability movement, vegetated building envelopes are gaining more popularity. This requires special wind effect investigations, both from sustainability and resiliency perspectives. The current paper focuses on wind load estimation on small- and full-scale trees used as part of green roofs and balconies. Small-scale wind load assessment was carried out using wind tunnel testing in a global-effect study to understand the interference effects from surrounding structures. Full-scale trees were investigated at a large open-jet facility in a local-effect study to investigate the wind-tree interaction. The effect of Reynolds number combined with shape change on the overall loads measured at …
Spectrum Therapy Center, Lindsay Wilson
Sustainable Architecture : Addressing The Conditions Of Poverty And Homelessness, Taylor C. Alphonso
Sustainable Architecture : Addressing The Conditions Of Poverty And Homelessness, Taylor C. Alphonso
LSU Master's Theses
Any large city faces the challenge of addressing homelessness and poverty. The most common action taken to address such conditions is providing temporary shelter accompanied by assistance through welfare programs; these are not permanent solutions. They do not assist the impoverished in establishing themselves in the community as the shelters are temporary, and ignore the fact that many lack the required education along with job and life skills to ultimately establish independence. Many cities do not offer affordable educational opportunities to this demographic, and they tend to overlook the importance the actual facility may have on the encouraging and promoting …
Interact: An Architectural Thesis Addressing Design And Marginalization, Christine Leech
Interact: An Architectural Thesis Addressing Design And Marginalization, Christine Leech
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Rerigging From Offshore Platform To Coastal Fishing Community, Ryan Bertucci
Rerigging From Offshore Platform To Coastal Fishing Community, Ryan Bertucci
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Fresholds: Connecting Eating And Urbanity, Megan Claire Harris
Fresholds: Connecting Eating And Urbanity, Megan Claire Harris
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
The Esplanade Mall, Lauren Baye
Plexus: A New Model For New Orleans Public Healthcare, Jonathan Lejune
Plexus: A New Model For New Orleans Public Healthcare, Jonathan Lejune
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Unfolding The Graticule Of The Microcontext, Mari Claire Russ
Unfolding The Graticule Of The Microcontext, Mari Claire Russ
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Work In Process: Inhabiting Matter In Time, James Joseph Legeai
Work In Process: Inhabiting Matter In Time, James Joseph Legeai
LSU Master's Theses
The typical American house is conceived of and constructed as a permanent and singular object. This method of permanent design and construction is not conducive to sustainable resource and material protection. The permanent connections and material customizations used in construction disallow most C&D (construction and demolition) materials from being salvaged, reused or recycled once the house has reached its end-of-life. As a result, residential demolition in America produces for over 19 million tons of material waste each year (US EPA 6). Deconstruction offers a valid alternative to demolition but is not commonly practiced for two main reasons. First, deconstruction remains …
Butte Mine Revitalization Masterplan, Garrett Wolf
Butte Mine Revitalization Masterplan, Garrett Wolf
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
Honors Thesis, Mary Grace Verges
Baton Rouge Intermodal Transit Facility, Michael Rongey
Baton Rouge Intermodal Transit Facility, Michael Rongey
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.