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Cycling Without Spandex: A Transdisciplinary Approach To Design, Jess Garnitz

Architecture Thesis Prep

"Engaging with other disciplines is important to designers today as the nature of problems and issues are becoming more complex."

"The problem of integrating bicycles into our city streets is inherently a problem that requires transdisciplinary work. This is because of the complexity of the problem and the numerous areas affected through the integration. The problem is like an interconnected web of relations. There are issues relating to wayfinding and understanding how to get from destination to destination, which relate to issues of speed and non-verbal communication."

Architecture News: The Newsletter Of The Syracuse School Of Architecture, N.10 Spring 2011, Mark Robbins

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Architecture News: The Newsletter of the Syracuse University School of Architecture, No. 10, Spring 2011

Logical Urbanism: Food City, Nathaniel Wooten

Architecture Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

Liquid Infrastructure: Transnational Spaces Of Water, Timothy Gale

Architecture Senior Theses

As a response to the geopolitical issues of water importation into London UK, a new political entity emerges: theThink Tank. Through coupling political architecture and water infrastructure, the Think Tank legitimizes itself as a dominant institution for water governance. The project reveals the existing spatial subversion of Think Tanks and physical subversion of Pumping Stations to alter existing political structures by allowing the public to access the territorial.

It does not attempt to solve conflict or tensions, it instead seeks to utilize the architectural methods of coupling new programs and functions in the city to create a political and public …

World Takes, David A. Schragger

Architecture Senior Theses

"The emergence of the derelict and urban flora is a result of a myriad of current economic, political, and social conditions. The combination of the two offers an opportunity to institute a performative hybrid architecture. The remediation of the site can be achieved through combining the systems of the industrial and the organism. Because urban land is no longer valued, one can use the spaces to begin to generate temporal emergent patterns. The industrial topography can be dissolved through structured derelict ecologies throughout the city."

Remobilize + Localize: A Move Towards Creating Cultural Identity And Connectivity, Layla Safiani

Architecture Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

Reclaiming Vieques, Angela Albela

Architecture Senior Theses

" The physical environment at any point in history is the result of all the various events of the history of that place prior to that moment. It tends to manifest itself as a palimpsest of artifacts and mentifacts. It is my contention that architecture has the capacity to create a space of education and reflection about history. The objective of this process is to create an architecture that reclaims and presents the history that may have vanished. "

A Didactic Architecture: Rural Early Education, Vasiliy Lakoba

Architecture Senior Theses

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

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.

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’ …

Marcel Breuer And Postwar America, Marcel Breuer, Barry Bergdoll, Jonathan Massey

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

At the center of Slocum Hall, four stories below a large skylight, stands a big shaggy lens - a deep, fur-lined scoop framed by a broad rectangle eight feet high. Between stepped floor and slanted ceiling is a curved wall punctuated by a trapezoidal aperture through which you glimpse a purple-tinted fragment of face. Forehead and cheeks, a nose and two eyes: Marcel Breuer.

The lens, a pavilion encasing deep embrasures, marks an exhibition of material from the archive of this leading 20th century architect. It points you toward the adjacent gallery, where more than 120 drawings and photographs reproduced …

Marcel Breuer And Postwar America, Barry Bergdoll, Jonathan Massey

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

At the center of Slocum Hall, four stories below a large skylight, stands a big shaggy lens - a deep, fur-lined scoop framed by a broad rectangle eight feet high. Between stepped floor and slanted ceiling is a curved wall punctuated by a trapezoidal aperture through which you glimpse a purple-tinted fragment of face. Forehead and cheeks, a nose and two eyes: Marcel Breuer.

The lens, a pavilion encasing deep embrasures, marks an exhibition of material from the archive of this leading 20th century architect. It points you toward the adjacent gallery, where more than 120 drawings and photographs reproduced …

After Autopia: Visions For Light Rail In The Motor City, Lori Brown, Brett Snyder

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Prints By Gabriel Huquier After Oppenord's Decorated Ripa, Jean-François Bédard

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

This article discusses the ways in which Gabriel Huquier altered the designs of other artists and printmakers to create new prints. In particular, Bédard examines Huquier's reproduction of a copy of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia. Huquier did not appropriate Oppenord's Ripa in its entirety or follow the original sequence of drawings. Instead he produced a series of prints that feature elements randomly chosen from it. Bédard argues that Oppenord and Huquier were both bricoleurs, but who had different objectives for their projects. While Oppenord attempted to interpret the text, Huquier was concerned with profit.

Rehabilitate The Urban Context By Rehabilitating Individuals Through The Rehabilitation Of Buildings, Paloma Del Mar Riego

Architecture Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

Formerly Urban: Projecting Rust Belt Futures, Mark Robbins, Stephanie Miner, Nancy Cantor, Julia Czerniak, Darren Petrucci, Jane Wolff, Mclain Clutter, Hunter Morrison, Damon Rich, Toni L. Griffin, Don Mitchell

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

A two-day conference on the benefits of creating urbanity in weak-market cities gathers twenty-one international experts in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, as well as planning, policy, finance, economics, and real estate development. Participants share strategies for cities whose urban character has devolved radically due to economic, demographic, and physical change - cities that are now considered "formerly urban."

Architectural Wit: Le Corbusier And The Use Of Visual Analogy And Metaphor, Bruce Abbey

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

"The ability to see the world of ideas in visual terms and as a method equivalent to literary poetics distinguishes the work of Le Corbusier from other architects of his generation." A detailed description of his use of visual metaphor and analogy has been difficult to find in the critical literature. This article explains Le Corbusier's use of visual analogy and metaphor.

Urban Stitch: Reinventing Housing In The Globalized Urban Realm For Chinese Migrant Workers, Jennifer Hoi Ling Ha

Architecture Thesis Prep

"This thesis contends that architecture can reclaim individual and community expression within the globalized urban realm through the integration of unique programs in a live/work community environment."

Excavating Wilderness: A Reorienting Passage Into Central Park, Jeff Kamuda

Architecture Thesis Prep

If we are to understand that dwelling, a function of orientation is an ultimate goal of humankind, and that architecture's primary purpose is to provide this 'existential foothold', how can this be accomplished in an age when the very tools of orientation and it's components (time, place, and identity) be oriented to their surroundings through an increasing detachment from the natural world, how can architecture thus be used as a didactic mechanism ideology, developed through the historical lineage of the wilderness concept, will produce an opportunity for an architectural intervention to confront the primal act of orientation while simulating grafting …

Reconnect The Urban Surface --- By Making Landscape And Infrastructure, Ming Gao

Architecture Senior Theses

Today in the post industrial city, the connection between different places relies mostly on transportation by way of automobiles, public buses, and subway. By walking or biking, people are able to talk with nature directly. However, by modern transportation, people are confined in a close machinery space which prevents them from experiencing nature directly. They are separated from nature by consciously choosing to use modern transportation during their daily lives, and they get less and less direct access to nature. Nowadays, nature experienced space within walking distance int he city is limited to the tiny front yard garden, where landscape …

Re-Hashing Haiti: Empowering The People, Edward Dudley

Architecture Senior Theses

Thesis contends that integrating an architecture at a local level that economic and political sectors will produce a community that temporarily manifests a relationship among existing social actively contributes to aself sustaining haiti of the future.

Architecture News: The Newsletter Of The Syracuse School Of Architecture, N.9 Fall 2010, Mark Robbins

Newsletters from School of Architecture - ArchitectureNews

Architecture News: The Newsletter of the Syracuse University School of Architecture No. 9, Fall 2010.

Urban Apparatus Sequence As Event, Jee Youn Seo

Architecture Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

Virtual Translations, Katherine Brills

Architecture Senior Theses

The thesis sets up the distinction between the concepts of the virtual and actual and how they are intricaly related to producing experience that define our spaces. It examines the performative qualities of Virtual Reality and how these stimulate action and reemerge into Actual Reality.