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Fantasy Park: Mode Of Reality, Sai Lyu

Architecture Senior Theses

In the book Privacy and Publicity, Beatriz Colomina (1994) states that with the development of railways and photography, travel culture - as the beginning of mass media - has changed the relationship between people and urban space, making the place into non-place. Place then becomes a commodity to be consumed by the masses, breaking the relationship between people and urban space into fragments, replacing the linear relationship that existed in the Renaissance period.

Moreover, with the beginning of mass media, advertising architecture has had a significant influence on the urban fabric and on the relationship between people and the urban …

Re-Treeting Detroit: Return Of A Blighted City Back To Nature, Nivedita Keshri, Shreeya Shakya

Architecture Senior Theses

Detroit’s complicated history of corruption, racial tensions and economic decline have made conventional strategies for growth, repopulation and infill inadequate for dealing with ongoing and overwhelming urban vacancy. Dealing with voids within shrinking cities have been difficult because it lies outside the existing experience and vocabulary of urban planning, architecture and socioeconomics. Our thesis explores the potential of voids within a blighted city. We recognize the value in intentionally keeping voids as voids in a city and allowing the built environment to take a step back and allowing “nothing” to take its place.

What is the current conditions of these …

Activating Place: America’S Former Beer Capital, Elise Chelak

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis contends that the tool of mapping, as well as its various techniques and typologies, can uncover historical identities in the urban landscape, so as to generate rich, spatial narratives of place. Through alternative and contemporary methods of mapping, (e.g. drift, layering, game-board, thick-mapping, ghost-mapping, and counter-mapping), community stories are layered to reveal a complete and unaltered genius loci (spirit of place). Fragments of the urban fabric that were once erased, excluded, or edited, are now reframed for the work they do to contain and convey, and reinterpret to revitalize this neighborhood while drawing on its past. Acknowledging what …

Re*Presenting Dharavi: Activism And Agency Of Architecture In Informal Settlements, Ahnaf Chowdhury, Anuradha Desai

Architecture Senior Theses

Plastic recycling is a critical informal economy in Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums in the heart of Mumbai. Waste from dumping grounds is collected, sorted and prepared by recyclers who transform trash into a commodity to be sold back into the city. As part of top-down efforts to redevelop Dharavi's valuable land, the Mumbai government has tarnished the industry's image, labeling it as "polluting," and has increased the cost of utilities such as electricity in an effort to drive it out of the community. As it becomes more expensive for recyclers to operate, the labor unions that organize the …

Detection Of Linkage Between Solar And Lunar Cycles And Runoff Of The World's Large Rivers, Zhijun Dai, Jinzhou Du, Zhenghong Tang, Suying Ou, Samuel Brody, Xuefei Mei, Jietai Jing, Shoubing Yu

Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

It is an ongoing concern that global hydrological cycle can be likely intensified under context of climate change and anthropogenic actions. Here, our results show that the solar and lunar periodic motions (SLPMs) have substantial impact on the runoff of the world's large rivers. We estimate that SLPMs can produce a change of the world's large rivers runoff by as much as 6.7%. Although climate models suggest that the increased frequency of extreme events is attributed to anthropogenic activities, it is out of our expectation that as much as 73% and 85% of the extreme flood and drought events (based …

Your Second Home: Re-Thinking Of Post-Disaster Housing, Evelyn Brooks

Architecture Senior Theses

Natural disasters such as tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes destroy our infrastructure, civic buildings, public amenities, and homes. These disasters create problems of homelessness, but they also create environments within the city that are unlivable due to a lack of electricity and potable water. People displaced by disasters often find themselves living in a government- or non-profit-run evacuation shelter, at the mercy of bureaucratic organizations for assistance to begin the recovery process. People forced to evacuate neighborhoods where they have perhaps been established for decades often also lose their ability to commute to work (if their employer still exists) as …

Territorial Transgressions: The (New) New Jersey, Ryan Oeckinghaus

Architecture Senior Theses

Understanding the operation of a Territory as opposed to conceiving solely of urban and non-urban/rural areas illuminates the underlying flaws present in the built environment that are caused by this assumption. Infrastructure is a vital component of planning that is significantly downplayed and disjointed when looking at areas independently, and as such should be linked back into a proper understanding of the territory. This Thesis seeks to provide an example of a possible territorial reconfiguration in New Jersey that utilizes an updated conception of territory, creating a Holistic Proposal to remedy outdated planning and infrastructural practices stemming from the misconception …

Spatial Agency For Migrant Workers: Rethinking The Dynamics Of Urban Villages In China, Yan Liu

Architecture Senior Theses

“Throughout history, expanding cities have always run over villages, hamlets, estates, gardens, and soft elements that constitute the countryside, the domain that hosts agriculture and nature.” Urban Villages, essentially a composite of these “soft” elements, remained as one of the hardest anchors among the residual or by-product in China’s urban development. Until 1985, the Pearl River Delta region had been mainly dominated by farms and small rural villages. The onset of economic reform and the open-door policy brought an influx of foreign investment which fueled the unstoppable train of urbanization. Rapid urbanization let to the formation of Urban Villages, a …

Learning From Wes Anderson: On Artificial Memory And Detail, Abigail Campion

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis focuses on the reproduction of detail, through compression and misarticulation, an artificial memory of its reference. The project culminates on three films of Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel. These specific films were chosen due to their cult following within the Anderson canon. Wes Anderson articulates his cinematic universes very meticulously. He uses unique methods to capture certain emotions in his films. A huge part of Anderson’s film worlds is his attention to detail. All parts of his films are deeply invested in maintaining the illusion of the film world he has …

False Actually: Constructing The False-Hyper-Real In The Quotidian American Landscape, Rose Maalouf

Architecture Senior Theses

The thesis contends that imagery, deployed through the deliberate staging of an architectural scene, can misrepresent actuality for the creation of cinematic illusion.Through the consideration of matter as imagery, my project aims to design a set of fictive traces of life/occupations that mimic the limits of realism. It is about designing a hyper-real landscape through narrative.

The author chose the site of Erie Boulevard in Syracuse as a place to catalog over time through a series of photographs. My observations over the course of 6 months gave me an image catalog to extract from and a set of actions that …

2047 City: Hong Kong’S Identity In A Space Of Disappearance, Mike Liu, Raul Sadhwani

Architecture Senior Theses

Hong Kong has always been colonial; its existence is shaped from the confluence of East and West. After 158 years of British rule, Hong Kong's handover to the Chinese Government, catalyzed by the expiration of its 99-year lease of the New Territories, began in 1997 whereby the city operates under a "one-country-two-systems" policy. These events have created a culture and identity of disappearance as the people of Hong Kong have scrambled to define their identity due to the imminence of its disappearance, as discussed by Ackbar Abbas. This is exemplified in the Umbrella Revolution in 2014 when citizens, mainly students, …

Amazon Vertical City: The Fulfillment Center Of The Future, Jessica Casero Lopez

Architecture Senior Theses

This thesis looks for at the projection of Amazon's patent drawings for vertical fulfillment centers and speculates on their design to evolve into a significant typology in the present day.

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer. In June of 2017, Amazon released one of their most compelling patents, a multi-level fulfillment center with a beehive structure for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The release of the drawings made international news. These could change the way distribution centers are perceived and designed. In 2017, Amazon had 300 million users worldwide. Rapid growth has enabled Amazon to expand to different continents and forced …

Getting There: The Return Of A Public Infrastructure, Yun Qing Hu, Sizhe Wang

Architecture Senior Theses

The Greek agora was a crossroad, a civic center, a marketplace. The colonnade stoa lining the Agora of Athens was, as John Camp has written, "a true public building, designed for no specific magistrate, group or function..anyone could pass the time of day there. It was, therefore, a popular meeting place..." An agora was a social space, a place to meet or a stop while en route to other destinations. Such public space naturally formed at the intersection of social, political and commercial activities and promoted a diversity of constituents.

Public space is where society is shaped and where the …

The Denuded Image: A Critique Of The After-Image, Danya Li

Architecture Senior Theses

The Denuded Image aims to create a conversation between a photograph and its viewer by adding back the third dimension. It is not a proposal of how architects should design space, but a model for observation and study of how to create new ways of seeing. The dioramas at 1:8, 1:4, and 1:2 scales expose the reality of the forced perspective and the denuded photograph's distorted characters. As scale increases, the observer is invited to engage with the in-visible parts of the image that differ in materiality. The final spectacle includes all models and their respective images, to expose the …

Encyclappedia: Confronting Sidewalklabs Digital Physical Community, Katharina Elisa Körber

Architecture Senior Theses

Google's Sidewalk Labs claims that its plans for Quayside in Toronto will result in the "most measurable community build from the Internet up" [Dan Doctoroff, CEO Sidewalk Labs]. How can we understand the realities and implications of an urbanism that so radically challenges the current physical and mental relationship between humans and architecture, and architecture and digital devices? This thesis examines the roles of architects when a city and its architecture are planned as a community of digital devices. It explores ways to disrupt and conceptualize Sidewalk Labs' strategy of a community where humans and non-human devices "live" among systems …

Finding A New Center: A Study Of Neo-Industrial America, Juliet Domine, Virginia Paulk

Architecture Senior Theses

As a result of globalization, manufacturing in America moved overseas. The coasts, with greater access to international markets, have flourished, creating a distinct divide between the middle and the edge. Moving from the post-industrial era into the current age of the neo-industrial, revitalization of the middle can occur by introducing an industry utilizing previous skill sets. Therefore, the center of the United States can be made relevant again through the programmatic revitalization of post-industrial sites.

In the post-industrial era, St. Louis has suffered from economic decline, unemployment spikes, and population decreases. Revitalizing forgotten industrial spaces with a new mode of …

Planifikimi Urban I Avancuar – Bllokut Urban Multifunksional, Ardian Zymeri

Theses and Dissertations

Arkitektura shpesh merret me përpunimin e hapësirës, vëllimit, formës, dritës, hijes, dhe elementeve abstrakte për të arritur një përfundim estetik. Kjo gjë e dallon arkitekturën prej shkencave të zbatuara dhe inxhinierisë, të cilat përqëndrohen më shumë në aspektet e funksionalitetit dhe realizimit të projektit, sesa në estetikën e tij. Arkitektura është e lidhur me shumë disiplina duke përfshirë matematikën, shkencën, artin, teknologjinë, shkencat shoqerore, politikën, historinë, filozofinë e të tjera. Qellimi i projektit eshte sigurimi i nje blloku urbane, me cilesi te avansuar, dhe te rritja e cilesise se jetes ne kete pjese te lagjes. Motivimi per te bere kete …

Projektim I Viles Malore, Kushtrim Syla

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Ndërtesë Shumëbanesore Me Administratë, Lindrit Berisha

Theses and Dissertations

Shekulli XXI ka hyrë si shekull ku popullsia urbane e ka kaluar atë rurale. Nevoja e lart

për banim ka dërguar në krijimin e qendrave dhe kuartireve të dendura urbane, për më

tepër banimi i lart dhe i dendur shihet sot si një nga qasjet për të arritur një arkitekturë

të qëndrueshme, ku banimi, puna dhe shit-blerja bëhen në afërsi.

Zona kufitare në mes dy lagjeve më të mëdha në Qytetin e Prishtinës – Dardanisë dhe

Ulpianës – ku sot ndodhet tregu informal, paraqet një “skaj” me potencial të lart për të shqyrtuar

krijimin e një kompleksi banimor si zhvillim …

Hotel Në Vërmicë, Shkumbim Krasniqi

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Villë Malore S+P+1, Qerim Nuradini

Theses and Dissertations

Tema e marrë për ta shqyrtuar në këtë punim diplome është Villë Malore. Rëndësia e kësaj teme qëndron në ofrimin e shërbimeve dhe plotësimin e te gjitha kërkesaveq qe i nevoiten nje ville, e tërë kjo duke u bazuar në norma dhe standarde europiane. Nevoja për një qasje duke u bazuar prej definicionit te villës “Arrati prej Qyteti” , qasja moderne dhe me teknologjin e fundit te kohëve së sotshme ështe edhe asyeja e zgjedhjes së kësaj teme . Lokacioni I përzgjedhur për projektimin e kësaj ndërtese është Zllatari, e cila është një zone e qetë dhee panoramike, me largësi …

Ndertesë Afaristo Banesore, Viktor Marku

Theses and Dissertations

Tema te cilen e cilen e kam përzgjedhur ështe ndertesë Afaristo Banesore

Objektet shumëbanesore të banimit mund të definohen si grumbullim i njësive për banim të përkohshëm apo të përhershëm, të përsëritura horizontalisht dhe vertikalisht në disa kate, të cilat ndajnë së bashku strukturën, konstruksionin dhe një numër të kthinave dhe hapësirave kolektive, qoftë të brendshme (komunikimin, kthinat sociale, kulturore, të shërbimeve, etj) po ashtu edhe të jashtme (rrugicat, oborret, kopshtet, parkingjet, etj). Karakteristikë veçuese e objekteve shumëbanesore është DENSITETI.

Në këte lokacion do të bëhet trajtimi I ndëtesës shumë banesore me afarizem

Qellimi I kësaj detyre është shfytezimi sa …

Ndërtesat Ekonomike-Stacioni I Autobusave, Veton Daka

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Planifikim Urban Bllok Urban I Banimit Individual, Blerta Tora

Theses and Dissertations

Tema e marrë për ta shqyrtuar në këtë punim diplome është planifikimi i një blloku urban.Kjo temë është mjaft e rëndësishme pasi që planifikimi i duhur dhe i bazuar në norma dhe standarde europiane mundëson një jetesë më të rehatshme dhe më të sigurtë për qytetarët e atij blloku urban. Arsyeja e zgjedhjes së kësaj temë është sepse konsiderohet si një problem që duhet të trajtohet në një mënyrë të veqantë. Në vazhdimsi në Kosovë e posaqërisht në Prishtinë po ndërtohen shtëpi, blloqe, lagje pa ndonjë planifikim të mirëfillt dhe pa marrë parasysh se ato lagje a kanë ndonjë nevojë …

Shtëpi Banimi B+P+2, Besjana Latifi

Theses and Dissertations

Të sfiduara nga problemet globale, si migrimet fshat-qytet, ndryshimet klimatike etj, e edhe ato lokale të mos vazhdimsisë dhe keq menaxhimit social e urban, shumë nga qytetet Ballkanike e kanë gjetur veten të pa pregatitura për të adresuar këto probleme. Si rrjedhojë, hapësirat në të cilat jetojmë sot i kemi ngulfatur nga elemente të shumta dhe ndërtime të pa planifikuara, pa i ndjekur normativat dhe pa analizuar mundësite që krijon gjendja ekzistuese. Qyteti i Tetovës është poashtu një nga këto qytete. Për pasojë në qytet janë projektuar hapësira me mungesë të ndriqimit, janë projektuar blloqe urbane me mungesë të hapësirave …

Planifikim Urban - Blloku Urban I Banimit Kolektiv, Eljesa Begunca

Theses and Dissertations

Në këtë punim do të trajtohet një restaurim për bllokun urban në qytetin e Kaçanikut.

Qëllimi i këtij restaurimi është zgjidhja e problemeve të kësaj zone urbane, përpjekja e përmirësimit të situatës urbane për të sjellë një dinamikë të re të planifikimit për të balancuar interesat e publike dhe private, dhe po ashtu të siguroj kushte jetese që i përshtaten qytetarëve për të gjitha grupmoshat.

Degradimi urbanistik, tejkalimi i lejeve ndërtimore, ndërtimet pa leje kanë ndikuar në shkatërrimin e arkitekturës e cila është brengë për të gjithë.

Po ashtu janë të shumta problemet e qasjes së personave me nevoja të …

(Mis)Communicating With Geographic Information System Mapping: Part 1--Choosing Units Of Representation, Rodrigo Cantarero, Maria Deguzman, Sarah Taylor, Soo-Young Hong, Jeong-Kyun Choi

Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Extension professionals are increasingly using geographic information system (GIS) technology to develop and inform programs and services. In this article, we use a mapping exercise to demonstrate how the unit of data can be applied and inadvertently misrepresented in GIS mapping. We contrast the use of counts, percentages, and location quotients with the same data and the resulting divergence in maps. The discussion addresses ideal circumstances for using each unit of data. Overall, the article illustrates the need for Extension professionals to be cognizant of the benefits and limitations of various units of data to avoid miscommunication when using GIS …

Primitive Palms: A Density Study On The Impacts Of Harvesting Natural Materials For Construction Purposes On Sumak Allpa Of The Amazon Rainforest, Zachary Bull

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In an effort to better understand how rural construction techniques affect a surrounding environment, this study combines a density test of the natural building materials used in the construction of a school on Sumak Allpa island of the Orellana Province in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. The focus of the study measures the density of the bamboo species Guadua angustifolia and the Panama hat plant Carludovica palmata on the island while noting a comprehensive compilation of the techniques and materials used in the building process. Using a mix of plots and transects, a comparison of harvested material to remaining material …

The Port Vincent Community Center: Constructing A Social Space To Help Protect A Communtiy Both Before And After Disaster, Kaitlin Marie Schuette

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Solar Responsive Façade In An Urban Environment, Cheriyah Wilmot

Publications and Research

Due to the high energy consumption in cities like New York, I am designing a shading system to be retrofitted on an existing façade that responds to external thermal conditions. I’ve conceptualized the functions of the shading system to either block/allow sunlight and analyzed its effectiveness in terms of energy use and illuminance in comparison to the modeled office space. Materials will be explored as well as how it’ll function in the future.