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  • tulane school of architecture

    Exhibition of Thesis Projects2015-2016

    a catalog of thesis projects created by the tulane school of architecture master of architecture candidates for 2016

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    thesis class of 20152016

    An Architectural ThesisEach of the Thesis Projects presented in this exhibition was developed in two consecutive courses over the fall of 2015 and spring of 2016. In a three credit fall course, students researched an architectural topic and developed a thesis able to be explored through design. Students then entered the spring semester design studio course with a provisional thesis which was explored and elaborated through design for a specific program and site. In both semesters, each student was guided by one of the following faculty members:

    Scott Bernhard, AIA, NCARB, Thesis Coordinator Jean and Saul A. Mintz Associate Professor Marianne Desmarais, RA, NCARB Adjunct Professor of Architecture

    Ammar Eloueini, AIA Professor of Architecture

    Marty McElveen, RA, NCARB Adjunct Professor of Architecture

    Cordula Roser-Gray, AIA Professor of Practice

    In this Bookletpages 04-05 An alphabetical list of the 2016 Thesis Students with each

    exhibit location, and a project description page number.

    pages 06-07 A plan of the Thesis Exhibition in Richardson Memorial Hall indicating the location of each Thesis Project.

    pages 08-54 An Illustrated, one-page description of each thesis and thesis project.

  • Thesis Project SummariesEach of the thesis students below has created a one-page illustrated sum-mary of their Thesis project presented on the indicated pages of this booklet:

    student page location thesisprofessor

    Ardeneaux, Christian page 08 panel cr-03 Roser-Gray

    Battipaglia, Michael page 09 panel mm-08 McElveen

    Begbie, Blair page 10 panel mm-06 McElveen

    Buschman, Christina page 11 panel sb-02 Bernhard

    Collins, Christopher page 12 panel ae-09 Eloueini

    Coln, Joseph page 13 panel sb-07 Bernhard

    Esser, Nicole page 14 panel cr-07 Roser-Gray

    Federman, Amy page 15 panel cr-10 Roser-Gray

    Frankel, Lolade page 16 panel md-08 Desmarais

    Girardeau, Lindsay page 17 panel md-07 Desmarais

    Graham, Kyle page 18 panel ae-07 Eloueini

    Grosshandler, Zoe page 19 panel md-06 Desmarais

    Haack, Christopher page 20 panel ae-06 Eloueini

    Hayden, Emily page 21 panel mm-03 McElveen

    Herskowitz, Alec page 22 panel ae-08 Eloueini

    Jin, Buwei page 23 panel cr-08 Roser-Gray

    Katz, Max page 24 panel md-05 Desmarais

    Keith, Colin page 25 panel mm-02 McElveen

    Key, Jenny Renn page 26 panel sb-04 Bernhard

    Latch, Shira page 27 panel cr-05 Roser-Gray

    Leggett, Logan page 28 panel mm-05 McElveen

    Loria, Gwen page 29 panel sb-11 Bernhard

    Lynn, Eric page 30 panel mm-01 McElveen

    McDonald, Daniel page 31 panel mm-04 McElveen

    Mehaffey, Nicole page 32 panel md-02 Desmarais

    Mills, Shelby page 33 panel mm-07 McElveen

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  • Mire, Elizabeth page 34 panel cr-09 Roser-Gray

    Morasso, Sarah page 35 panel cr-02 Roser-Gray

    Naylor, Samuel page 36 panel ae-03 Eloueini

    Ngo, Matthew page 37 panel ae-11 Eloueini

    Nguyen, Katie page 38 panel sb-08 Bernhard

    Nunnink, Michael page 39 panel sb-09 Bernhard

    Park, Jamie page 40 panel cr-06 Roser-Gray

    Phillips, Rosemary page 41 panel sb-03 Bernhard

    Rosencwaig, Eytan page 42 panel sb-06 Bernhard

    Rodas, Gustavo page 43 panel md-11 Desmarais

    Rogut, Alyssa page 44 panel md-09 Desmarais

    Russo, Parker page 45 panel sb-10 Bernhard

    Sassoon, Maya page 46 panel ae-05 Eloueini

    Sharp, Jonathan page 47 panel md-03 Desmarais

    Shields, Adam page 48 panel mm-09 McElveen

    Sixt, Alexandre page 49 panel md-10 Desmarais

    Scott, J.D. page 50 panel md-04 Desmarais

    Stokley, Laura page 51 panel ae-10 Eloueini

    Taube, Jonathan page 52 panel ae-04 Eloueini

    Telford, Melinda page 53 panel md-01 Desmarais

    Van Arsdalen, Megan page 54 panel cr-01 Roser-Gray

    West, Gavin page 55 panel sb-01 Bernhard

    Westmoreland, Rachel page 56 panel cr-04 Roser-Gray

    Wurzelbacher, Francke page 57 panel sb-05 Bernhard

    Zamorano, Paul page 58 panel ae-01 Eloueini

    Zolan, Jeffrey page 59 panel ae-02 Eloueini

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    Thesis Panel LocationsEach student has presented their exhibition of design work on a 6 tall by 8 wide panel located as indicated below (ae indicates a Lobby exhibit):

  • Thesis Exhibit Plansecond floor of richardson memorial hall

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    Thesis Exhibit Plansecond floor of richardson memorial halleach student project is keyed to a location on this plan

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    room 201thomson hall

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    Marianne Desmarais [MD] 11 student group 201, Southeast

    Cordula Roser-Gray [CR] 10 student group 201, Southwest

    Marty McElveen [MM] 09 student group 201, Northwest

    Scott Bernhard [SB] 11 student group 201, Northeast

    Ammar Eloueini [AE] 11 student group 206 + Lobby

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    welcomeinformation

    monday, may 2nd thesis reviewsmorning sessions 8:30am to 12:30pm desmarais group mcelveen group

    afternoon 1:30pm to 5:30pm desmarais group mcelveen group

    tuesday, may 3rd thesis reviewsmorning sessions 8:30am to 12:30pm eloueini group desmarais group mcelveen groupafternoon 1:30pm to 5:30pm eloueini group roser-gray group bernhard group

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    Thesis Exhibit Plansecond floor of richardson memorial halleach student project is keyed to a location on this plan

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    Marianne Desmarais [MD] 11 student group 201, Southeast

    Cordula Roser-Gray [CR] 10 student group 201, Southwest

    Marty McElveen [MM] 09 student group 201, Northwest

    Scott Bernhard [SB] 11 student group 201, Northeast

    Ammar Eloueini [AE] 11 student group 206 + Lobby

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    wednesday, may 4th thesis reviewsmorning sessions 8:30am to 12:30pm bernhard group roser-gray group

    afternoon 1:30pm to 5:30pm bernhard group

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    Connective Public Infrastructure:A Merging of Path and Place

    The role of circulation in American cities has shifted from the multi-functional pedestrian oriented path to the monofuctional vehicular oriented path. Pedestrian paths once served not only as circulation but also as meeting place, market place, and recreation space. Vehicular road networks act as a direct barrier for pedestrian accessibility to the immediate areas surrounding them. This condition is realized in the adjacent areas around the Pontchatrain Expressway section of Highway 90 in New Orleans, Louisiana where pedestrian accesibility is hindered by the Highway.

    By creating an elevated pedestrian oriented infrastructural network around the highway pedestrian accessibility can be strengthened and allow the highway cease to be a pedestrian barrier. Furthermore, integrating this network with a pedestrian orieted public program on a site can create a better urban connection where public pedestrian access to publicly centric areas of a city can exist.

    Christian Ardeneaux

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    Liquid Awareness through a Civic Infrastructure

    Awareness through a Multifunctional Infrastructure:Aquifers provide 35% of all human fresh water needs. Twenty-one of the thirty-seven major Earth aquifers are being depleted at an unstainable rate. Demand from these aquifers are even greater in times of drought such as California which historically has experienced a drought every decade. The Central Valley Aquifer is Californias main water source, yet has depleted to nearly half its size in the past five years the state has been in a severe drought. What if architecture could play a role in bringing awareness to this dire issue through a civic infrastructure that recycles and refills the groundwater?

    Recycling Water for Drought Stricken Los Angeles:Los Angeles uses over 500 million gallons of water each day and is discarded into the Pacific Ocean. This thesis imagines the water being diverted to smaller water infrastructures placed throughout the city that would recycle and refill the groundwater under Los Angeles. Carved away water towers would use the natural treatment system of plants in order to sustainably treat black and grey water. These neighborhood civic gardens would also double as greenspace for a city that is lacking parks and bring awareness to an issue that we have become disconnected with in terms of where water comes from.

    Michael Battipaglia

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    Manipulating To MendRestructuring memory by synthesizing order & physical manifestation

    The Brain and the BuiltSocietal detachment, irrational reality, disoriented identity: side effects of Alzheimers disease. In normative circumstances, the mind and body intimately consociate to form the selfdom of a human being. Uncontrollably, Alzheimers disease fractures this harmonious connection. Understanding the inner workings of the brain, the connection between spatial navigation and memory, is crucial to reforming space for those with disconnected neural networks. It is through the layers of order and connected stimulants that memory sparks. Visual perception and stimulating arts spaces bond community members, students and memory loss patients. This systemization relinks memory from a biological basis, reminding each lost identity of innate spatial movements, societal relations, and a sense of self.

    Reconnect: Memory, the Arts, and the CommunityA biologically inspired civic facility within Houston, Texas that relies on exploitation of the existing spatial memories of community with additional stimuli to mend the estranged body and mind. The built reforms the brain. Manipulated visual pattern rebuilds diminished neural connections fragmented by Alzheimers disease, restoring both memory and identity.

    Blair Begbie locationMM-06

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    Architectural and Human Relationships within Modern American SuburbsSuburban spatial relationships prompt filtered connections between neighbors, but with increasing density and housing square footage these closer adjacen-cies become problematic. Additionally, the modern American family is becom-ing increasingly complex, as more pressures and figures are being added into the lives of children and their parents. Families can lessen these strains by ex-panding their support networks and bringing them in closer proximity. This kind of density, commonly found in many new housing developments, lend itself to cohousing, however American are hesitant about this way of living.

    Cohousing as an Armature to Increase Density and ConnectionsLocated in a suburb of Atlanta, the proposed cohousing development exists within a subdivision on a site that had previously held a church. By working with the surrounding rhythms and regional housing typologies, the modern program begins to blend in with the existing fabric. The project is designed with con-sideration to families with special needs and includes different therapies and additional means of support. The surrounding community is able to utilize some common amenities, while careful circulation planning maintains a desired level of suburban privacy and outdoor space.

    Christina Buschman

    Moving Toward More Cooperative LivingInvestigating Cohousing as an Armature for Increasing Density in American Suburbs

    HIBERNIA AVENUE SITEDecatur, Goergia

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    SOUTHtoward Oakhurt Elementary School

    Adair Park and the Mary Gay House

    Ebster Park

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    Ebster Park

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    Lilly HillBaptist Church

    St. Thomas MoreCatholic Church

    and School

    Decatur Police Department

    ExcellenceChurch

    Thinking Man Tavern

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    the Adair Park and e Mary Gay House

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    Digital LiminalityIdentifying the Threshold Between Man, Site, and Machine

    Abstract Thresholds within Concrete Spaces:Liminality is being within a transitional state of progress in which one operates within both sides of a sensory threshold. This space operates as the doorway to more than just the room occupied, but rather ties worlds or emotions together. A church bridges the gap between heaven and earth, whereas a vessel would connect the world of land to that of the sea. Most recently, the Internet is seen as a connection point across the whole globe; many people see it as an ethereal cloud, yet it requires large expanses of space to house data storage and processing units.

    Bringing The Cloud Down to Earth:A visual representation of a large amount of data within an urban setting allows the general public to connect directly to the tangible Internet. Synthesizing a colocation center with a mediatheque as a means for user interaction, the attraction allows visitors a visual connection to the inner workings of the data cloud. To prevent overheating, the building is located on the San Antonio River, which it uses as a means of cooling. Servers line the walls of an atrium while water and air flow around them creating movement within a traditionally stationary work of machinery.

    Christopher Collins locationAE-09

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    Fostering Heterogeneity Addressing Socioeconomic Segrega on by Engaging Communal Spaces in Reorganized Mixed-Income Housing

    Income inequality is a global phenomenon that sees wealth concentrated in upper income brackets. Consequentially, people of di erent incomes are living further apart - enabled by automobile-driven suburbanization. In the United States of America, this wealth strati cation is embodied in an abhorrent racialized history. Even with seemingly progressive interventions in underprivileged communities such as public housing, wealth inequality and residential segregation have persisted. Perhaps by refocusing mixed-income housing on the engagement of communal spaces into reorganized residential living situations, we can de-emphasize the nature of homogeneity present in low-density living and spur further remediation of socioeconomic segregation.

    Swinging for the Fences in The City of Brotherly Love Since segrega on can be found from the North and the South to out West, establishing site criteria narrowed down Phildelphia as a diverse, yet segregated city. Located in the central city neighborhood of Callowhill, the project is situated at intersec ons of race, wealth and densi es of adjacent neighborhoods; the project thus highlights prominently the e cacy of communal spaces, integrates culturally-relevant spaces and organizes a diverse pale e of unit wealths in a hyperlocalized manner.

    Joseph A. Coln

    Rethinking Mul -Family Housing in a Segrega onist Context of Stra ed Wealth

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    Gateway Bridge Park: forging a productive link between shores

    Declining Bridge Infrastructure and the Rise of Alternative Transit:Bridge infrastructure in the United States is reaching a critical point. The average bridge age is 42 years, while most bridges are designed for a 50 year life span. The money is not available to keep all of these bridges functioning, much less to replace them, and demolition is also costly. This means we will soon reach a point where many bridges sit closed and unused. At the same time, bike commuting is becoming increasingly popular and car ownership is declining. Could these bridges instead be proactively altered to address the schism created by water in many cities?

    Connectivity for St. Louis and East St. Louis - a Bridge Park:St. Louis is a city split across two shores that is troubled by disparities between East St. Louis and the urban core on the western shore. The bridge selected for decommissioning and reuse is the MLK Bridge, located north of tourism and business destinations. The unique opportunities of the truss structure are surgically altered to recreate the bridge as a space of leisure, education, transit, and growth. The project is anchored with a farmers market and community garden on the eastern shore, which begins to address East St. Louis food desert and provides a place of destination.

    Nicole Esser locationCR-07

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    Edge EcologyA Proposal to Revitalize & Reconnect Bostons Water Infrastructure

    Water Transportation & Sustainability:By activating and expanding Bostons water transportation network, a multi-disciplinary ferry terminal typology can sustainably support transportation needs within the context of a changing climate, particularly in tangent with the issues associated with sea level rise. Through architectural analysis, transit stops foster success through re-modeling their network, amenities, branding, and program, as well as elaborating on an ecologically-driven soft edge condition to make the terminal hub an iconically balanced seaside gateway to the city.

    Softening the Urban Edge:Reintroducing once native cordgrass to the Bostons waters, this purifying, sponge-like condition tessellates and sprawls throughout the infamously dirty water, drawing infrastructural, ecological, and educational ties along the Charles River and perimeter of the Harbor. The symbiotic relationship between technology and ecology becomes a crucial concept for the survival of this seaside city. The projects seeks to [RE-define] a machine as a common goalaround which interdependent operations can rally.

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    Transpositional IdeologiesFinding a Home in the Urban Core

    The American Dream and the Shifted Needs of a New Generation:The realization of the American Dream has been cemented in the suburban home typology. The 2008 economic downturn has greatly affected the viability of this dwindling dream, as have shifting demographics, lifestyle choices, and family culture. A new sharing economy has arisen, refocusing the new generation on an economy of means and communal living. The tenets of the American home can be understood as architectural and spatial conditions that can be rethought and replicated in new environments. A revisioning of the ideas of home and community is necessary to adjust to current needs and reverse the anonymity and waste of American sprawl.

    A Home in the Urban:The proposed housing prototype seeks to blend the desire for an autonomous home with the increasing necessity of dense urban living. Through the utilization of a sharing ideology, the project offers typical suburban home amenities in refigured ways that emphasize connection at three scales: between neighbors, the neighborhood, and the city at large. The transposition of these tenets offers the respite of a private home in a dense and dynamic environment; merging the dream home with the necessities of modern living.

    Lolade Frankel

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    Generating Place from SpaceDisruptions Along a Divisive Urban Corridor

    Troost Avenue: A Divisive Urban CorridorKansas City still remains a starkly segregated city in the 21st century. One street serves to divide the city racially, Troost Avenue. This fissure divides the city not only by race, but by economic status, school districts, crime, and many other demographic characteristics. Troost Avenue is an avenue of blight that acts as a wall, cornering the racially concentrated areas of poverty into East Kansas City. By strategically disrupting Troost Avenue and developing nodes at intersections of cross streets, connections and communities will be drawn across the divide.

    Troost School of Music: Generating Place from SpaceSchools take a huge place in the discussion of racial division within Kansas City. Following the desegregation of schools, measures were put in place in Kansas City to keep the school system segregated and Troost was at the heart of the issue, the street which definied the boundaries of school districts. The design of this School of Music occupies an existing vacant building on Troost and extends the intervention from Troost to the neighbrhood behind. This design creates a community anchor that simultaneously breaks boundaries and celebrates the culture of Jazz music in Kansas City, while bringing back life to Troost Avenue.

    Lindsay GirardeaulocationMD-07

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    Crowdfunding Modular Construction Design Strategies for Improving the Success Rates of Crowdfunded Buildings

    We can design crowdfunded buildings betterTo the average American citizen, the thought of constructing a public building is completely unachievable. However, the contemporary landscape of financing buildings has provided an alternative: crowdfunding. Crowdfunding, injects a democratic system into the traditional construction process, allowing individuals to vote on projects they support by either choosing to fund or not to fund the project. At this time, only 30% of crowdfunded buildings succeed in being constructed. By changing the way we design crowdfunded buildings, projects can be created that are more conducive to the crowdfunding model and have a higher chance of success. Creating a new mode of designing crowdfunded buildingsCrowdfunded projects are formed through the accumulation of resources over a length of time whereas traditional projects are given all of their resources at once. In order to take advantage of this rate of accumulation, crowdfunded projects should be defined by the aggregation of individual parts which can be funded independently. As parts are funded, they are added to a growing whole. While the final form will be unknown to the advocates of the project and the project designer, they will be responsible for designing the elements that will amount to the building and composing the strategy for how the elements will be organized.

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    A New Rural TypologyPermanent and Transient Connec ons to an Agrarian Landscape

    Trending Local: Finding Place through FoodMid-scale farms are disappearing across America in favor of small lifestyle farms and industrial agriculture. Urban sprawl, while pressuring these farms to sell for development, has also contributed to a societal disconnect from the land. This loss of a sense of place can be seen in shi ing consumer a tudes towards food and a rising demand for local, sustainable, and organic products. Tapping into that trend is the farming method (op mized for mid-scale farms) champi-oned by Polyface, Inc; a rota on of various livestock across pastures maintains the farm as an ecosystem, balancing the needs of both land and animals.

    An Agricultural Community: Re ec ng Place and ProductGreenmont Farm lies in the Shenandoah Valley: a landscape of rolling hills criss-crossed with fencelines and overshadowed by the Blue Ridge Mountains. Currently farmed by Polyface, Greenmonts future is unclear and it is struggling to break even. Phasing in limited residen al development alongside an inten-si ca on of the working farm forms a modern agricultural community, allowing Greenmont to stay intact. Thickening the boundary between protected regions of unchecked growth and the open pastures creates a narrow site for each phase. The housing units react to their placement in between the pastoral and the rugged, while common spaces re ect the inherent seasonality of a farm.

    Zoe GrosshandlerlocationMD-06

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    One, two or three images may be located in the space of this gray box (please remove the gray box before submitting your page). Choose image(s) that help to illustrate your thesis ideas and/or thesis proj-ect. In total, they must occupy this 4.5 x 2.5 space with .125 white spaces between images if more than one is used. The online version of this booklet will be in color, but be aware that the printed ver-sion of this booklet may be gray-scale. If you wish, you may submit a gray-scale version and a color version of your page. If you only submit a color page, it may be automatically converted to gray-scale during printing. A 300dpi image, at this size, is more than enough resolution for the purpose of this booklet.

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    Strange GodsLiberated Artifacts of the Endless Present

    From the time of cave painting to the age of androids, mankind has been preoccupied with copying, increasingly with near-perfect accuracy. The project aims to create a space for the construction of new futures for endangered and disputed artifacts in the face of rapid technological progress. It serves a global population and rejects the position of absolute preservation, rather embracing the notion of a fluid narrative augmented by the production of replicas. As society inevitably shifts to an emphasis on the digital and immaterial, the replica becomes a paradigm in and of itself. This phenomenon, enabled by contemporary technologies, liberates the object from its physical confines, and enriches the relationship between object and narrative. It also brings into question notions of context, materiality, and scale - three properties with cultural baggage of their own. The project serves as an enabler of these new exchanges and confrontations, operating out of a relatively neutral location and programmed as a repository for information and a facility for reproduction. These productive frictions allow us to reconsider complex object histories. The architectural environment must acknowledge the fact that artifacts are never frozen in time, and instead are evolving representations of larger cultural narratives. The project presents a series of mutable parafictions and strange familiarities that extend from the architecture to the objects housed within it. If it is conceivable that the perfect copy can be made, or that the physical artifacts of the most polemic conflicts on the planet could suddenly proliferate, what would become of this destabilization? If the replication of objects enables some degree of autonomy, it would perhaps undermine the constructed narratives taken to be truth as presented by museums, critics, and elite establishments, and allow for a broader and more nuanced interpretation of what material culture looks and will look like in centuries to come.

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    Spatial Justice for East AustinDensifying social exchange with parametric infrastructure

    Barriers of the Modern CityUrban activist Jane Jacobs understood the city as intrinsically social. However, in the past century our cities have become growingly dehumanized through segregation and suburban sprawl. Today, as land closer to job centers skyrockets in value, previously undervalued land becomes vulnerable to gentrification, where rising costs displace existing populations. The question is therefore posed as to how architecture can more actively respond to gentrification.

    A New Model for Intervening in Gentrification On the banks of Lady Bird Lake, directly east of Interstate 35 from downtown Austin, Texas, the dangerous Holly Street Power Plant long stood as a symbol of toxicity for the predominantly Hispanic surrounding neighborhood. For 30 years grassroots organizations petitioned to remove the plant, and in 1995, the City Council voted to dismantle it. The proposed program for the Holly Street site will deliver a combination of cooperative housing, public spaces for community development, informal markets, and transportation hubs. Stitching together the programs means enabling inhabitants to tear down its physical barriers. By proposing a new model synthesizing parameterized cohousing units with public space, the architecture seeks to catalyze interaction.

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    Buwei Jin

    During the last decades, with the rapid urbanization process, millions of immigrations moved from the rural to the cities for jobs and better life. To accommodate such a huge amount of immigrations, the government and employers built a specic form of housing: the residential districts. However, with the decades of use and lack of design experience, such districts are no longer attractive and are experiencing many problems. The thesis explores the potential architectural intervention to x and improve the communities and remain the social ties among the current residents.

    Since the project should be a prototype that can t into any similar residential districts, the site is selected from a city in China with moderate climate and residential districts well remained: Nanjing. The major method of the interven-tion is providing public amenities and commercial business space by encourag-ing the residents living on the ground oor to move upwards and merging the vacant residential units to create public space in larger scale. Such public amenities are connected by additional circulation and bridges to encourage encounters and interactions.

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    Liminal Edge S tching the Periphery in NOLA East

    Industry, Ecology, Community: The blurry, unde ned edge of a city seldom a ects the citys core, leaving peripheral communi es isolated, autonomous, and untapped. This urban condi on, typically anked by su ering ecologies and unproduc ve industrial spaces, is in need of new de ni on and inclusion. Looking speci cally at a community called Versailles at the eastern periphery of New Orleans, this thesis s tches ar cial and natural produc on processescommingling construc on and landscapeand explores a new urban condi on that blends

    with the natural environment.

    The S tch: Crea ng a seam between city and nature, the project can be understood as a li ed landscape that contains a gradient of programs ranging in scale from industrial to community. Reac ng to the speci cs of the natural environment, the project cuts back and forth into the landscape to engage both the marshland and the bayou, crea ng an inters al space for pubic boardwalks. The site gesture simultaneously shields and showscompos ng and farming are removed from the main public circula on whereas the market, community spaces, and recrea on shop engage the main path.

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    Temporal TracesA Legacy for the Coal River Valley, West Virginia

    Sites of Memory | A Legacy of Impermanence The changing of place evolves naturally over time on a slow moving cyclical path. However, recent industrial and technological advancements have transformed our perception of time from a slow moving cyclical path into a fast paced linear acceleration. This project explores this shift by examining the current relationship between natural and manufactured landscapes by proposing a series of interconnected interventions intended to petrify time and mark the ever-changing character of the place. Located in the Coal River Valley in West Virginia, the design investigates how this industrialized terrains temporal legacy exists as a trace within the rapidly changing place - during and after the mining process ceases to exist.

    Remnants of a By-Gone EraThree primary interventions exist within different locations of the valley, ad-dressessing specific stages of mountaintop mining and the damage it has on the place and people in the surrounding area. The project in its final completion will become an extension of the Appalachian Trail. A 100 mile path will be added to the existing 2,900 mile trail, connecting the interventions while offering a visit-able landscape of mining remnants once concealed.

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    COAL RIVER VALLEY, WEST VIRGINIA

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    Beyond PlacelessnessBroadcasting the Story of a Toledo Neighborhood

    How can we call our homogenized neighborhoods home when the next city over offers the seemingly identical built environment? When we disregard all narratives embedded into a sites cultural or climatic history, we fail that places accumulated identity, potentially hiding vibrancy under ubiquitous confinements. Architects have the responsibility to reveal a sites aggregate, to cultivate those qualities, into physical realities. This mindfulness can help alleviate the genericism of our neighborhoods by using architecture to inform, thus taking the user, beyond placelessness.

    A radio station in Toledo, Ohio: This thesis explores the invisible and visible forces at a quiet site, to help form an architects sensibility that mindfully seeks the extraordinary, within the mundane. For this Rust Belt neighborhood, the site selection sets up the challenge to overcome stigmas attached to many Mid-west and industrial-heavy cities. The design brings attention to a dilapidated and economically challenged urban environment. Formally, the design seeks to contextualize its shell while intriguing the user with innovated connections of the landscape to its interior architecture. Programmatically, the building incorporates the past (archives) with the present (live room / radio station) and future (business incubator).

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    INterDEPENDENCEaddressing the intergenerational continua of care

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    Reconnecting the Generations: The United States increasingly age-stratified society marginalizes the oldest and youngest generations, people who require the most care and specialized resources. An environment where preschool children and the elderly can be validated by their autonomy while connecting with people from other generations will help bring us to a mutually beneficial intergenerational society. While intergenerational programs are becoming more prevalent, the spaces they occupy are often not deliberately designed to emphasize the necessary balance of independence and connection for young children and the elderly.

    Autonomy + Community: An Intergenerational Care CenterLocated in the upper ninth ward, a neighborhood that lacks out-of-home care resources for both children and older people, the center seeks to encourage independence and connection through the intersection of various user paths and opportunities for informal gathering. The architectural design reinforces the programmatic goals of fostering a community that pairs together the most vulnerable and most self-sufficient members of these user groups for interconnectivity.

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    Synesthe c Aesthe cMedia ng Between the Cartesian and the Phenomenal

    A paradigma c shi has occurred in our concep on of space and me.Primi ve man perceived the world according to the sum total of all of his senses, inhabi ng a truly acous c space. Advancing technology and shi ing cultural values have distanced man from this spa al construct. Star ng with the advent of the phone c alphabet and con nuing today through our internet of things, our existen al priori es are based not on biological reality, but rather on a mathema cal sense of Cartesian space in Newtonian me. The manifold ad-verse rami ca ons of this range from psychological to physiological to spiritual. The Cartesian Ideal manifest writ large in the life of Houstons CBD:Downtown Houston presents a unique and truly bizarre architectural circumstance wherein through the vehicle of economic and environmental preference, the human subject has systema cally been experien ally dissociated both spa ally and temporally from all terrestrial quali es. The ad hoc network of underground pedestrian tunnels links parking garages to o ce buildings, encouraging individuals to pass the en re work week without once stepping outside of an evenly uorescent lit, seventy two degree controlled environment, throughout which process one is unable to foment a rela onship to geophysical place. This project creates a network of links between the formal and the spa al, the visual and the experien al, the Cartesian and the Heideggerian.

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    CITY : FARM : DWELLING

    The language of Agricultural Landscape Urbanism

    Today, 54 per cent of the worlds population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. These urban centers are dependant on a hyper mono-agrarian industry. In urban centers, 98 percent are consumers of agriculture, 2 percent are farmers. Could there be a synthesis to connect us back to our food source? There is also a phenomenon of the abandoned urban infrastructure, which could allow for the redevelopment of a new paradigm of urbanity to manifest. In the essay, Dwelling fades into the distance, Hilde Heynen concludes that, Dwelling is in the first instance associ-ated with tradition, security, and harmony, with a philosophy that guarantees connectedness and meaningfulness. Where with the modernization of the provision of food has become meaningless.

    The project is located in a blighted area of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Or-leans, Louisiana where there were twenty-four dwellings on 12 city blocks and determined the carrying capacity of the proposed land for the existing den-sity. Then synthesized a scalable system of farming, pioneered by Joel Salatin, with a light footprint adaptable to an urban environment. To demonstrate how the dwelling could mimic the choreography found in the agricultural landscape. The connectivity to the symbiotic system provides a visceral bond and experience of authentic dwelling.

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    Outer EarthClosed-loop Living

    What is the future of now?Our exploitation of the natural world has disrupted the symbiotic exchange between living creatures and their surroundings. With the goal of reexamining the scope of human habitation, a closed-loop ecological system located in low earth orbit can be a catalyst for testing the extreme conditions of how people thrive and survive. On Earth, a dwelling primarily protects its inhabitant but in outer space, a dwelling both supports and sustains its inhabitants. Using the human body and its metabolic needs as a design metric, spatial parameters can be defined and quantified to create a closed system.

    Why do we live the way we live?The juxtaposition between habitation and support spaces creates a dynamic relationship between the dependence of micro and macro aspects of life. The habitation spaces are withdrawn, while the support spaces are communal. Both of these spatial conditions form a closed system with the reciprocal exchange of energy and material.

    Eric Lynn

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    ransi onal SpacesModular housing prototype for emergency crises

    Refugee camps, a broken system:esigned as a tempory safe harbor, camps o en long outlast their expected lifespan. In e ect these places also face di cul es of places serving needs beyond what they were designed for. Refugee camps are typically geographi-cally isolated, provide li le opportunity for work, and where fencing and limited mobility form a sense of imprisonment rather than refuge. Structures are temporary and nature and not suited to the clima c condi ons that users must face as well.

    A new prototype for mass housing:his proect proposes a new system of onsite prefabrica on for mass hous-ing. he onsite produc on provides value and employment for those seeking refuge. A series modular units are combined to create varied series of public and private spa al experiences. Upper level terraces provide relief from the groundplain and build repla onships and sense of community with the public spaces below.

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    Resiliency RevisedRemediation and Recreation in New Orleans Water Systems

    Evaluating and Redefining Resiliency in New OrleansCurrently, a fragile relationship exists between water, land, and people in New Orleans. Although the rigidity of our flood protection system gives an illusion of control, we are anticipating rising waters at our periphery, the land we live and build on is sinking, and the magnitude and frequency of rainfall we experience annually is intensifying. Water in this city is hidden behind walls and under-ground. Instead of subverting natural processes, which leads us to disregard waters potential threat, how can we convert the existing defensive approach to water management to a more integrated, flexible and reciprocal stategy of urban planning?

    Merging Public Amenity with Public AwarenessThis project proposes a series of neighborhood-scale interventions that bring previously concealed water processes to light by exhibiting them in a sustain-able community-centered resource. Rather than altering existing infrastructure, this strategy would utilize current neutral ground conditions in order to take pressure off the Citys drainage network. By accepting and accommodating water within the urban fabric, New Orleans can address the deficiencies in de-fensive water infrastructure while encouraging public interaction and enhancing neighborhood connectedness.

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    Endemic SensualityCorporeal Phenomena for Urban Catharsis

    The Urban Condition is the Human Condition:Sensory stimuli can shape human perception to distinct experiences that evoke visceral reaction and modified consciousness and behavior. Particularly harmful are intensely saturated surroundings where tangible stressors rapidly present themselves to the subject without reprieve, increasing susceptibility to anxiety disorders. This mind-body connection between the environment and the self provides a moment for the examination of how an urban condition affects the anxiety of its inhabitants.

    Addressing Anxiety through Sensory Immersion:Manhattan provides a strong platform for indicative stressors of urban life. These stressors are often most recognizable in the citizens daily routine of commuting via the subway system; its necessity to the lives of New Yorkers contrasted with the unpleasant aspects of the daily commute provide a unique condition. Through a reconditioning of spaces on and within the Union Square 14th Street Station, an immersive sensory intervention seeks to provide respite and relief from urban conditions in a way that is widely accessible and routine.

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    Public AccessReimagining Data Space

    Elizabeth Mire

    The Digital Divide threatens New Orleans Cultural Economy:New industries take advantage of New Orleans creative past + future oppor-tunity. However, market forces that drive Internet infrastructure create gaps in a world where online access is increasingly essential for education, civic engagement, and economic opportunity. The Digital Divide threatens the citys cultural economy by creating division between locals and newcomers in the public sphere and in terms of access. Closing the gap is necessary to ensure an economic future in New Orleans that bears the identity of both groups and has benefits for all. This can be accomplished by providing collaborative urban spac-es in a hybrid typology that combines infrastructure with information access.

    Public Space / Public Access:The project seeks to address the digital divide in New Orleans by integrating ac-cess points and communication tools within a reimagined public typology. The Post Office is a dying communication typology and can be replaced with one that is increasingly requiring of physical space: the data storage center. In the Bywater on the Industrial Canal, this hybrid typology is situated in an economic corridor in transition and addresses a community plagued by division and lack of access. Public Access combines access and infrastructure with aims to con-tribute to a sustainable future for New Orleans.

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    The Urban FrontierA New Typology for Satellite Cities

    Re-examining Existing Satellite City Infrastructure:Almost every large city in the United States has accumulated smaller satellite cities on the periphery of the metropolitan area. These satellite cities house resources that exist because of their proximity to a larger urban core allowing them to harbor communities of people looking for inexpensive yet accessible housing close to a strong job market. As both the desire to live in major city centers and the cost of living in these city centers grows, satellite cities are becoming a destination where people within the city can escape huge expenses and suburban families can achieve urban living at an affordable cost.

    A Transit Hub In New Jersey:Harrison, New Jersey is a commuter city that has become a bridge between the suburbs of New Jersey and Manhattans central business district. The transit accommodations that exist allow Harrison to be a lucrative city that can provide housing communities to people looking for inexpensive housing close to New York City. The introduction of a transit oriented development plan surrounding public transportation hubs located in the core of the city will establishing a con-nection between existing parking structures, housing, and public amenities that in turn create a satellite city typology that can adapt to the drastically changing habitation throughout a typical work day.

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    A Psycoloical and Socioloical Connec on to NatureThe natural environment we as a species evolved in has imprinted a desire for its wild embrace deep within us. ur na onal interests of decentraliza on are driven by the lure of the organics, and yet has suppressed nature and impacted our health. If the city is our future we must look back to the three ambi ous garden city schemes of Wright, Howard, and Corbusier. Their contribu ons, and the research of environmental and eco-psychologists are evidence in the argument for ecological proximity.

    A er cal Park for New York CityIn the density of anha an, development is increasing at a rate and size that limits the possibili es for future ecologies (parks). And as the country urbanizes New York becomes more of an eventuality than an anomaly. Thus, anha an as the stage for our urban future reuires immediate ac on on how we priori ze nature. The proposal takes cues from the ambi on of skyscrapers and the lucra ve power of high end real estate to interlace program and topologies -- it seeks to nd a poten al for the park in the density of our future.

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    Deep within a thicket of green and brown there exist only glimpes through the foliage of an everpresent metrololis. Slowly ascending your perspective changes and you are able to conquor the giants of the forest.

    Sunlight beams from above but the air is brisk, New Yorks largest balcony is also its most wild.

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    Communal Development : Design Towards a Healthier, Collabora ve Community Through the Implementa on of Shared Public and Private Spaces.

    The In ux of New Residents and the Rising Costs of Rent:Many neighborhoods occupied by low-income residents are seeing a rise in the cost of housing. Long me residents who rent rather than own their own homes, can become burdened by housing cost and must nd alterna ve dwelling op ons; typically, this means moving to a new neighborhood and leaving behind an established community and culture. In many cases, the long- me residents are replaced by young people in search of the authen c culture established by the long- mers. However, new residents can o en threaten the cultural economy of the area as they replace it with their own.

    A Residence in New Orleans Bywater to increase the Housing Stock :The Bywater neighborhood in New Orleans, for many years, was occupied by lower-income renters but has seen an in ux of new, young residents who are a racted to the neighborhoods lively arts scene and low housing costs; costs are now rising and long- me residents must consider reloca on. The New Orleans Center for Crea ve Arts (NOCCA) plans to increase enrollment of students from outside of the city. This project is developed to increase the housing and cultural stock in the neighborhood through collabora ve and communal spaces for both residents and the surrounding neighborhood.

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    Fiction, Paradigm, Dwelling, and NeedShaping a new way of life through the architecture of an origin myth.

    Dwelling as CatalylstThe goal of this thesis is to redefine the dwelling, and in doing so, suggest a new mode of dwelling that better suits our immediate need for community, our growing need for affordable housing, and the long term need for sustainability. Using dwelling as a catalyst, the thesis seeks to begin shaping a future paradigm that addresses above problems in a fundamental way. The project is presented in the form of a story that follows the archetype of an origin myth. Through nar-rative, the formation of the built intervention is placed within the larger context of a community in transition.

    Dwelling as CommunalThe thesis reintroduces a model of dwelling in which smaller private compo-nents surround a larger communal center. Located in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans one block off of the St. Claude corridor, the design proposes a communal bathroom and courtyard that inserts itself within a city block that is riddled with vacancy and blight. As the need for a bathroom and social space shifts to the communal realm, the private realm is relieved of this pressure. The surrounding vacant lots can therefore be occupied by complimentary private dwellings that explore alternative typologies.

    Katie Nguyen

    1 | a blazing a trail and trampling a clearing

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    Urban TimberDeveloping infrastructure that enables the sustainable potential for mass timber construction in urban contexts.

    Fire stairs as public infrastructure:Mass timber presents us with the opportunity to use carbon sequestering structural systems, but there are challenges that are different than those that an architect faces when designing a steel or concrete building. Moisture, lateral loading, and especially current fire code are prohibitive to the attainment of environmental benefits offered by the use of mass timber in urban mid-rise construction. Positioning networks of concrete fire stair cores on city blocks can address these issues simultaneously. Allowing these fire stair cores to exist as public infrastructure will accord the city and fire marshal with greater juris-diction and in turn increase the feasibility of allowing mass timber structural systems in an updated fire code.

    Manhattan mixed-use mid-rise:New York City offers a dense, growing urban context situated relatively near to forests with high regeneration rates. Manhattan exhibits high rates of residen-tial construction and stringent fire code making it an excellent laboratory to truly test the feasibility of mass timber construction in an urban context.

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    Urban EuphoriaIntegrati ve Elements of Recreati on and Renewal

    Humans are Designed to PlaySuccessful play spaces inspire parti cipants to create a temporary, extraordinary world through physical, social, and spiritual manifestati ons of play. In fast-paced urban lifestyles lled with constant sti mulati ons, citi es lack inclusive play spaces where citi zens can step away from their daily routi nes and recuperate, physi-cally and mentally. Conventi onal play spaces in citi es today consist of generic playground equipments targeted towards speci c acti viti es or user groups, neglecti ng the needs of the wider populati on. As urban areas conti nue to grow, citi es should accommodate for free play, encouraging citi zens to interact with their surroundings and challenge their spati al boundaries.

    Transforming the Urban WorkspacePlay is most deprived in work environments where success is measured by the end product, while play is measured by the process of simply having fun. By ex-ploring the dichotomy of work and play, urban areas can can sati sfy the intrinsic need for all humans to recuperate by integrati ng elements of play beyond the surface of daily acti viti es. Typical components of monotonous o ce towers can be transformed to prioriti ze physical movement and creati ve explorati ons throughout the building.

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    Main Street As Social Infrastructure

    Exploring Community and Individualism Through Connections Between the Small Town Corridor and its Residual Spaces

    Bringing Back Main StreetThe typical Main Street is made up of several blocks comprised of a variety of commercial businesses, densely packed, and walkable from one to the next. Above these streets, housing often lines the second stories of stores. Today, most lay empty. The proclivity of designers and city officials to think of Main Street as stagnant rather than constantly evolving has led them into decline. Understanding these components as a cohesive organizational device ,current small-town main-streets can form an armature able to support contemporary institutional programs seeking a relationship between collective expression and individual identity while also reviving Main Street.

    Creating a Community on Main Leesville is a small town in north Louisiana that reflects the materiality and traditional commercial block design of many Main Streets throughout the state. This thesis approached the design process by first programatically completing and connecting multiple blocks on Main Street. With housing above each set of stores along the street front, there is also a shared resident component in the back of the block. In the residual space on the first level, each block has a pro-grammed public space that can be used by citizens of Leesville but is primarily a space to form community for residents in their own backyard.

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    Anticipating Patterns of GrowthExploring Boundaries and Transit - Oriented Development as a Cognitive Mechanism to Contain Low - Density Urban Sprawl

    Aiding the Fast-Paced Development of the San Jose - Puntarenas Corridor: This thesis anticipates development in areas not yet affected, but in danger of conurbation. It proposes an organized way to manage contemporary growth by engaging bounding methods that can contain urban growth and support eco-zones between developing areas. Costa Rica is growing in a disorganized fashion. The recent construction of Ruta 27, highway connecting the capital city with Puntarenas, important port city in the Pacific coast has steered develop-ment along this road at a rapid and unplanned pace. With this idea, and the re-integration of an abandoned train network travelling this same path, the project combines boundaries and transit-oriented development solutions to organize development along the corridor and act as a driver for the growth of helthier and more vibrant communities along the corridor.

    A High-Performance Community in the town of Escobal, in Costa Rica:The town of Escobal is the mid-point along Ruta 27, taking about a half hour to get there from each side. The train station is located in the middle of the town, creating density that moves outward to be contained by bounding areas. The west boundary houses a community park, providing amenities for the commu-nity. The eastern boundary proposes an agricultural university that would allow to re populate surrounding eco-gaps with agriculture that was forced out of the area years ago.

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    Ad@pting Informality

    Precluding Informal Sprawl in Risk Prone Areas of Limas Periphery

    Settling at the Fringes:Despite Limas approach of incrementally consolidating informal settlements into the formal fabric of the city, available land, even in the distant nooks and crannies of the citys three cones of expansion, has started to run out. This causes newcomers to settle around older more consolidated informal neigh-borhoods in harsher topographical inclines that are much more prone to land-slides and damage from earthquakes. This precarious location greatly compli-cates sustainable connections with the formal urban infrastructure.

    A New Hybrid Housing Model:The combination of a planned formal framework with informal, self-built adap-tation can help guide a favorable urban environment that avoids the overcrowd-ing and unhealthy conditions of most informal settlements while facilitating a more rapid and cost-effective self-construction process. These interventions are located within the public clearings created by the ubiquitous concrete soc-cer fields spread throughout Limas informal neighborhoods, while preserving them at the ground level as an asset for community interaction and participa-tion. These networks of infrastructure aggregate at the city-scale, creating a peripheral edge that forestalls sprawl into limas mountaineous hinterland, while promoting the densification of the existing urban fabric.

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    A Local MobilityStitching Together the Post-Apartheid City

    A Social Condition Achieved Spatially:The divisive city planning and urban fabric of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa has prevented social and economic growth for much of the population and little has been accomplished thus far in regards to breaking the patterns of segregation in the built environment. Worldwide, cities dictated by walls have been met with issues of mobility and social integration, raising the question of how design may aid in the transcendence of borders. By focusing on connecting disparate communities across boundaries, new development can construct a mobilized future.

    Establishing the Program of a Town within a Township:In order to integrate community and environment, siting at the seam between the mobile and the immobile is required for future growth. In Cape Town the highway is a conduit of freedom and access but exists simultaneously as a physical boundary between poor areas lacking the very access the highway provides. This pertains closely to what needs to be addressed for the growth and development of the city- issues of location, containment and condition. By implementing a new bus station and marketplace along this impassable seam, convenience, mobility and opportunity will be brought to an abject local community, stimulating necessary progress and an increased quality of life.

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    A Lot of Wasted SpceFuture - Proofing Urban Infrastructure

    Understanding the future of our cities:As the population grows, a mass exodus back into the urban environment has taken place. Our countries greatest cities are being forced to accomodate a ma-jor influx of new citzens in already dense, valuable, and finite urban space. This means that downtown real estate is more valuable economically and socially than ever before, and so it is paramount to fully maximize its potential. Our civilization is also being greatly impacted by major strides in technology and sci-ence, altering how we live, and as a result our cities must adapt. The most near, imminent and impactful of these changes on our cities will be the evolution of the personal automobile into a network of autonomous ride sharing vehicles.

    Future-Proofing a defunct typology:The Parking Garage as we know it today serves only one function, and although that functions value is very important now, it will likely not be necessary at all in the future. This thesis envisions a new flexible typology to replace the de-funct parking structure. By designing a structure with Good Bones the form is truly flexible and can become nearly anything. This new typology both fullfills our needs of parking infrastructure today, but also can flex, adjust, and expand in order to fullfill our needs of tomorrow. Whatever they may be...

    Parker Russo

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    A Modulation of SensesDefining Space for Autistic Individuals

    A Sensory DisorderFor many years, physicians and the greater population saw Autism Spectrum Disorder as a behavioral syndrome. But what physicians have proved in recent decades is that autism is a wide spectrum disorder foremost affecting the senses. Autistic individuals have difficulty distinguishing relevant from irrelevant stimuli due to the fact that their brain is unable to organize sensation into meaning and concept. Autistic Individuals are often hyper or hypo sensitive to their everyday environment. It is difficult for them to carry out everyday tasks because they are so often uncomfortable in the spaces they inhabit. Current residential living communities for autistic individuals follow basic guidelines for catering to the disorder, but they have not gone so far as to morph multi-sensory spaces into the majority of these buildings.

    Residential Living Community: Permanent Sensory SpaceThis thesis will attempt to design a series of sensory spaces to be adapted into a residential living community for the increase in quality of life and independence for adults and adolescents living with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The commu-nity sits in Tribeca, a neighborhood in the south-western tip of Manhattan, NY. The citys extreme sensory overload is in need of a retreat for autistic individuals.

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    UNIFIED NINEtexturing an urban seam

    Transforming Monofunctional Infrastructure:Infrastructures work to move goods, people, energy and information around, establishing pathways and nodes that make connectivity possible - Stan AllenThe potential for architects to discover the overlaps between the human, mechanical, and natural conditions of the city may allow the redevelopment of deficient infrastructure to simultaneously address other critical urban issues. What if the typical monofunctional infrastructure could be transformed into an urban experience that creates a new public landscape and enhances physical exchange?

    Unify the Ninth Ward of New Orleans:In 1918, dredging of the New Orleans Industrial Canal led to the destruction of the central corridor through the historic Ninth Ward. Today, the cultural and economic inequality of the Upper and Lower Ninth Ward exists as a product of deficient bridges, blighted industry, and impending levees. The 96 year-old St.Claude Bridge is the only physical connection across the canal that supports pedestrian and bicycle access. This thesis imagines the future replacement of the St.Claude bridge as a new textured infrastructure that restores connectivity of the Ninth Ward by weaving its separated community, environment and industry.

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    Progression of ExpressionDefining the Gallery for Large-Scale and Countercultural Arts

    A new and unusual opportunity for spatially significant art:As attitudes continue to change regarding personal public visual expression via murals and street art, artists of many different disciplines will continue to push against larger and more monumental spatial boundaries as a means of advancing their physical visual significance on society. Oftentimes satirical, poetic, acerbic, or aesthetic in content and form, muralists works are quickly turning our urban fabric into a massive canvas for immersive artworks whilst simultaneously freeing the profession from its restrictive institutional circles. Through the rapid changes happening in this field, these artists can be found exploring the limitless freedom associated with this monumental shift in scale.

    Incubating an artistic movement through intentional Infrastructure:In tandem to the social issues at hand with this popular trend, the necessary elements for manufacturing and implementing these works are underrepresented by contemporary art venues. Tethered to a residency program for a live/work/display relationship between artists and their craft, the project of this thesis aims to define a reimagined gallery condition that elevates the visual culture of large scale art while preserving the informality of street arts urban experience.

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    Forging from ScarsReconstruc ng a Maker-Based Iden ty in Lewiston, Maine

    Recovery, Relapse, Repeat:For many vic ms of heroin addic on, the story remains the same. Vic ms lack a focus on self-actualiza on and social reintegra on and therefore lose their will to recover. The architecture of ins tu onalized recovery typically separates vic ms from their community, and even from themselves, focusing on what theyve done rather than who they are or who they want to be. This thesis focuses on the ways in which the physical environment a ects mental wellbeing and links to community. For vic ms of addic on, reintegra on into civic life can be facilitated through an ins tu onal typology open to user interface.

    Sober Housing and Trade School Combined:The se ng of this project is common in the Northeast United States: a historic town which is ba ling the raging heroin epidemic and has lost its maker-based iden ty due to closure of its factories. One of these towns is Lewiston, Maine, a tex le mill town on the brink of recovery. This thesis posits a new typology for an ins tu onal architecture that maintains a degree of rigidity in structure for safe housing, but allows for exibility in enclosure and func on to plug itself into Lewistons art movement by providing workshops where occupants can perfect a new skill to reach back out into their community.

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    Engaging the Disconnect:A Dignified Transit Hub Along the Basin Street Neutral Ground

    The DisconnectCivic spaces are designed in the absence of the people they most greatly impact. Conventional engagement efforts consist of formalities such as public hearings that deny participants the agency of hand-making and are built upon relationships of obligation. This runs contrary to a body of research that posi-tions hand-making and solidarity as elemental to human nature, resulting in undignified spaces that fail to accommodate fundamental human needs. To challenge this disconnect, this thesis offers a mode of praxis consisting of an engagement toolkit implemented in a real community and an architectural proposal developed alongside a partner organization.

    A Dignified Transit HubIn New Orleans, this disconnect is manifested in public transit. The RTA (Re-gional Transit Authority) bus system converges at a few critical intersections in the citys Central Business District. Each day, thousands of riders must transfer at these stops, despite a lack of adequate seating, shade, and other amenities. Currently, the RTA is conducting a feasibility study for a downtown transit hub. In partnership with Ride New Orleans, a local advocacy group, this thesis will deploy a community engagement toolkit that will enable transit riders to shape the design a dignified transit hub located in the Basin Street neutral ground.

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    I ASK THE MAN WHAT HE DOES WITH HIS RETIREMENT AND HE SAYS I RIDE THE BUS.

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    Post ProductionReprogramming Industrial Landmarks

    Addressing Abandoned Power Plants:Outdated industrial typologies such as coal-fired power plants can be found in nearly every major city around the world. Due to many factors including large size, complexity, and age these buildings are inherently difficult and expensive to renovate. However, the same characteristics that make them hard to revive also make it important to do so. In some cities preservation activists and local developers have managed to successfully reuse abandoned power plants while others remain dormant. Developing a more accessible way to address aban-doned power plants could help to preserve industrial landmarks everywhere.

    Repurposing the Market Street Power Plant:The Market Street Power Plant was built in 1905 and provided power to the city of New Orleans until it was decommissioned in 1973. Since then the massive riverfront building has sat vacant apart from occasional use as a filming loca-tion. The new Market Street Cinema is a 16 screen movie theater occupying one third of the power plant with a museum of film and dining options. A por-tion of the building will continue to be used as a production space for filming. This cinema and studio will showcase the local film industry and reengage the building with the New Orleans community.

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    MarginaliaMega-Ci es of the New Diaspora

    Inhabi ng a space in between Too o en we imagine borders as lines. Interna onal borders are in fact widening spaces of control, de ned by federal setbacks, ports of entry, militarized zones and the passengers of the space between, the global migrant. Rather than a proposi on of a new architecture, Marginalia presents a counter rhetoric to reveal the problems of architectural containment, socio-spa al condi ons with consequences that have led to a imaginary linear mega ci es along for ed borders. Condi ons of the barriers are constructed and rhetorical, both physical and psychological. Marginalia is a dystopia in response to very real poli cal rhetoric with spa al and architectural consequences that de ne the habita on of migrant bodies caught in between.

    Heading Two: usually a descrip on of the thesis project and site: Marginalias linear mega ci es occur on the threshold of the economic development and security. Today and in the future human migra on will con nue to move from insecurity to security and will be met with hardened borders and exclusionary rhetoric. These Migrants who at rst lled the margins of the border with their bodies and tents later found, through despera on and voluntary exploita on, a permanent space to inhabit.

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    Reciprocal FuturesRelinking the Reslience of Ecology and Community

    Congruent Catastrophes: A History of New OrleansThe chasm between the modern city and its geographic framework has consis-tently proved to be detrimental to its progress. This phenomenon has lead to a lack of connec on between the Lower Ninth Ward and its ecological neighbor, Bayou Bienvenue. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, both have su ered from similar limita ons yet few e orts have been made to build upon their parallel rela onship during revitaliza on. By providing a nuanced architectural frame-work that physically and conceptually relinks the needs of the neighborhood with those of the estuary, an innova ve solu on for the region develops.

    A Pla orm Emerges: Recul va ng the LandscapeFor this system to func on successfully, the necessity arises for an architectural vehicle to facilitate the process of mutual restora on. This can also provide a more intrinsic approach to relaying knowledge about the func ons of the wetland triangle, the eleva onal datums that appear throughout the city, and the cycle of growth of the Bald Cypress Tree, a tree that historically populated Bayou Bienvenue and can be used to once again replenish the estuary. With a more streamlined pla orm for awareness and its poten al to give back, the community will begin to have a more potent, involved e ect on remedia on.

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    Invasive ArchitecturePost-Preservationist Design for Shifting Ecologies and Fragile Landscapes

    A Human-Altered LandscapeThe southern Louisiana landscape is evolving due to shifting ecologies, cli-mate change, industry and globalization, and invasive species. Awareness and acknowledgement of the present degraded circumstances as well as disastrous future predictions of this area are necessary. For an environment on the brink of collapse, architecture can be used to create a mutually beneficial productive landscape that addresses current preservation needs now and using invasive species to prepare for the future.

    Plant Invasion, Human Insertion, Alien StructuresPlaced at the first non-indigenous settlement along the MS River, an oppor-tunistic architecture reliant on a structural armature allows for a new type of exchange between variant landscapes. The three program types, sediment infrastructure, plant research, and a constructed landscape are connected for the movement of people and materials between these concrete markers in the landscape. For purposes of education, documentation, storage, and a soft defensive system, the proposed design allows for extending the timeline for what is valued and creating artifacts to remain in the soon to be disappeared landscape.

    Megan Van Arsdalen

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    Pueraria lobata, KudzuYear of Introduction: 1876Origin: Southeast Asia

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    Eichhornia crassipes, Water HyacinthYear of Introduction: 1884

    Origin: South America

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    Lythrum salicaria, Purple LoosestrifeYear of Introduction: 1800s

    Origin: Europe + Asia

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    Triadica sebifera, Chinese TallowYear of Introduction: 1776

    Origin: Eastern Asia

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    Egeria densa, Brazilian WaterweedYear of Introduction: 1893

    Origin: South America

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    Macfadyena unguis-cati, Catclaw VineYear of Introduction: 1940s

    Origin: Central America

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    Festuca arundinacea, Tall FescueYear of Introduction: late 1800s

    Origin: Europe

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    Melia azedarach, ChinaberryYear of Introduction: 1830

    Origin: Australia

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    Ligustrum sinense, Chinese PrivetYear of Introduction: 1852

    Origin: Asia

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    Hydrilla verticillata, HydrillaYear of Introduction: 1950sOrigin: Asia, Europe, Africa

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    Salvinia molesta, Giant SalviniaYear of Introduction: 1990s

    Origin: Brazil

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    Salvinia minima, Common SalviniaYear of Introduction: 1920s

    Origin: South America

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    Origin: South America

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    Imperata cylindrica, Cogon GrassYear of Introduction: 1912

    Origin: East Africa + Southeastern Asia

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    Lygodium japonicum, Japanese Climbing FernYear of Introduction: 1930s

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    Street As StageThe Formal Dynamics of Urban Public Space

    The Role and Form of Public Space in a Changing Context: ons

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