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Title: A CONCEPTUAL SOLAR CHIMNEY PLANT AND FLORAL FARM USING ETFE AND BAMBOO
Creator: De Vita, Niels
Date: 2012-11-20, 2012-12
Description: Motivated by a desire to create an architectural response to the environmental and social challenges of today, the following thesis project...
Show moreMotivated by a desire to create an architectural response to the environmental and social challenges of today, the following thesis project attempts to offer new paths for the future development of the solar chimney energy plant concept originally developed by the German engineer Jӧrg Schlaich in the early 1980s. The starting point of this thesis was to analyze the solar chimney prototype completed in the Manzanares desert in 1982 in order to understand the parameters guiding the design. The analysis allowed me to better understand the potential of the concept and to recognize the opportunity that existed to push the technological boundaries to craft a new design that reflects the current socio-political, economical and environmental context we live in. In the following pages, I attempt to demonstrate that the concept could be made even more appealing through the use of technology and locally available resources. By doing this, I seek to reinvigorate the idea, opening paths for a new conversation about the potential of the project as a social agent for progress. Throughout this thesis, I remain respectful and aware of the accomplishments of the pioneers before me, simply taking cues from their work to suggest new alternatives and solutions to a problem that has been made even more pressing due to the world’s energy crisis and economic uncertainty.
M.S. in Architecture, December 2012
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Title: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322
Creator: De Vita, Niels, Kreitzer, Michael, Oh, Hyunjoo, Vassi, Anna, Boder, Matthew, Johnson, Drew, Fong, Patrick, Ramey, Ronald, Stopic, Milena, Irish, Sean, De Marco, Juan, Urdiales, Miguel, Blackketter, Joshua, Konwar, Riju, Kuzmicki, Kamil
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To...
Show more• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.
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Title: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Final Report Sp08
Creator: De Vita, Niels, Kreitzer, Michael, Oh, Hyunjoo, Vassi, Anna, Boder, Matthew, Johnson, Drew, Fong, Patrick, Ramey, Ronald, Stopic, Milena, Irish, Sean, De Marco, Juan, Urdiales, Miguel, Blackketter, Joshua, Konwar, Riju, Kuzmicki, Kamil
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To...
Show more• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.
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Title: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Abstract Sp08
Creator: De Vita, Niels, Kreitzer, Michael, Oh, Hyunjoo, Vassi, Anna, Boder, Matthew, Johnson, Drew, Fong, Patrick, Ramey, Ronald, Stopic, Milena, Irish, Sean, De Marco, Juan, Urdiales, Miguel, Blackketter, Joshua, Konwar, Riju, Kuzmicki, Kamil
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To...
Show more• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.
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Title: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Final Presentation Sp08
Creator: De Vita, Niels, Kreitzer, Michael, Oh, Hyunjoo, Vassi, Anna, Boder, Matthew, Johnson, Drew, Fong, Patrick, Ramey, Ronald, Stopic, Milena, Irish, Sean, De Marco, Juan, Urdiales, Miguel, Blackketter, Joshua, Konwar, Riju, Kuzmicki, Kamil
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To...
Show more• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.
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Title: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Ethics Sp08
Creator: De Vita, Niels, Kreitzer, Michael, Oh, Hyunjoo, Vassi, Anna, Boder, Matthew, Johnson, Drew, Fong, Patrick, Ramey, Ronald, Stopic, Milena, Irish, Sean, De Marco, Juan, Urdiales, Miguel, Blackketter, Joshua, Konwar, Riju, Kuzmicki, Kamil
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To...
Show more• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.
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Title: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Project Plan Sp08
Creator: De Vita, Niels, Kreitzer, Michael, Oh, Hyunjoo, Vassi, Anna, Boder, Matthew, Johnson, Drew, Fong, Patrick, Ramey, Ronald, Stopic, Milena, Irish, Sean, De Marco, Juan, Urdiales, Miguel, Blackketter, Joshua, Konwar, Riju, Kuzmicki, Kamil
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To...
Show more• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.
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Title: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: Growing Water 31st St. Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype IPRO 322 Midterm Report Sp08
Creator: De Vita, Niels, Kreitzer, Michael, Oh, Hyunjoo, Vassi, Anna, Boder, Matthew, Johnson, Drew, Fong, Patrick, Ramey, Ronald, Stopic, Milena, Irish, Sean, De Marco, Juan, Urdiales, Miguel, Blackketter, Joshua, Konwar, Riju, Kuzmicki, Kamil
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To...
Show more• To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine.
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