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The City: A Place of Places Examining the Role of Place and Architecture Inside the Urban Fabric
(2014-06-16)
The city is a composition of individuals. Every resident in a city builds their own place and is built by those places that surround them. It is this interaction of places that make the city unique; transforming the city ...
Stop sit look listen relax engage interact
(2014)
Faster phones, expanded use of personal computers, widespread access to digital bandwidth, and applications for the internet across multiple devices allows nearly instantaneous access to information and provides a means ...
Aquatecture: Designing Water Adaptable Architecture in Ko Kret, Thailand as a Flood Solution
(2014-06-16)
This paper will address a new approach towards architecture reflecting on the consequences of the city’s land based building practice in ecology that is predominantly water based. There is a need for opportunities to work ...
My Home Among the Hills: Revitalizing Placemaking and Identity in West Virginia
(2014-06-16)
This paper will explore the current model of museums as a civic institution, their current role in society and why a reevaluation of contemporary civic institutional design is needed; especially in rural regions. Critiques ...
Rebranding Detroit: music, identity, and perception in the new post-industrial era
(2014)
In post-industrial society, economic globalization has overpowered local culture. By establishing a mobilized task force to achieve top levels of efficiency, society has effectively reduced identity and spirit through ...
Finding Home: Opportunities for Placemaking in Albuquerque, New Mexico
(2014-06-16)
This paper examines the process of placemaking. It examines the differences between placemaking strategies in single family detached houses and multiple residential buildings, i.e. apartments, condominiums, townhomes, etc. ...
Healthy lifestyle communities: an innovative model of educational architecture and urban planning which promotes health and wellness
(2014)
The focus of this essay is the design of Healthy K-12 Educational Facilities to promote health of the individual as well as the community. The term health can be defined as the mental and physical wellness of the individual, ...
Towards a Closed-loop Community: Creating a Sustainable Seed in the Urban Environment
(2014-06-16)
In the coming years resource stress and waste management will continue to become two of the world’s biggest issues. If order to conserve resources and reduce waste that our cities produce I believe that we will need to ...
Returning children to the core of the town: challenging conventional daycare design
(2014)
The migration of families and businesses out of the urban core has been as detrimental to American small towns as American cities. Architectural solutions to blighted small towns focus on economic revival, street design, ...