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SINKING GROUNDS, RISING CHALLENGES ARCHITECTURE OF RESILIENCE: DESIGNIING FOR CLIMATE MIGRATION IN ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES
(2026) Jourabchi, Yekta;
Climate change is forcing communities worldwide to relocate as rising seas, erosion, and flooding make land uninhabitable. Isle de Jean Charles in southern Louisiana, home to the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, has lost 98 percent of its land, changing from a wide marsh landscape into a narrow strip surrounded by water. The government relocation to New Isle offered physical safety, but it did not fully address cultural continuity, community trust, or emotional connection to ancestral land. This research explores how architecture can respond to climate-induced migration while preserving identity, memory, and belonging. It asks whether communities can continue living with water rather than only retreating from it. Through mapping, field observation, and community-based analysis, the project proposes an amphibious and expandable framework for Isle de Jean Charles. The design combines floating platforms, elevated bridges, oyster reef systems, and culturally grounded programs such as a fishing hub, cultural center, festival ground, workshops, and temporary gathering spaces. The project is organized in phases so it can grow, adapt, or move as the landscape changes. Instead of seeing relocation as separation, this thesis imagines architecture as both shelter and a cultural vessel, protecting lives while keeping memory, tradition, and collective identity alive for future generations.
THE PUBLIC PITCH: REIMAGINING THE STADIUM PRECINCT AS A COMMUNITY ANCHOR
(2026) Richards, Kiran J.;
The Cincinnati riverfront area circulating West of Paycor stadium is underdeveloped and lacks community inclusion. Additionally, the current sports program is privatized and gated off, resulting in a divide between public and private. As time has progressed this area has seen various development proposals, illustrating the need to reinvigorate the area and turn unappealing parking lots into community green spaces. One such project even proposes enlarging the privatized area by expanding the gated practice field area, further reducing the community’s access to the riverfront. Consequently, these projects do not provide a substantial solution that reinvigorates the area and blends the public and private. Thus, it fails to strengthen social belonging and expand upon Cincinnati’s longstanding sporting culture, ultimately losing the focus on community. Community-centered sports infrastructure, accompanied by new community spaces, offers that solution. This design direction intends to provide the community with the opportunity to get involved and immerse themselves in the rich sporting atmosphere that Cincinnati exudes, while enjoying the green space development that follows on from the Banks Development, and creates a beautiful environment that flows across the entirety of the riverfront.
Data archive for "Sex differences in alcohol-induced transcriptional changes in the nucleus accumbens depend on sex chromosome complement and gonadal type"
(2026) Ream, Kiara; Eccles, Ezra; Lewis, Delainey; Underwood, D'Erick; Radke, Anna
Changing Perceptions, Transforming Lives
(2026) AJ Huff; Nick Linberg; Joel Malin
Data archive for "Escalated wheel running in the activity-based anorexia model develops in male and female adolescent C57BL/6J mice"
(2026) Lily Connolly; Anna Radke