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Title: Facade Retrofit - High Performance Facade Systems for an Existing Building
Creator: Velichkova, Gergana
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: THE FAÇADE HAS THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL WHEN TRYING TO OPTIMIZE THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF A BUILDING. THE MAIN GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS TO...
Show moreTHE FAÇADE HAS THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL WHEN TRYING TO OPTIMIZE THE ENERGY PERFORMANCE OF A BUILDING. THE MAIN GOAL OF THE PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE WHAT IS THE VALUE OF FACADE RETROFIT AND STUDY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMANCE, WEIGHT, EMBODIED ENERGY, ASSEMBLY EFFORT, COST AND POTENTIAL SAVINGS. 4 DIFFERENT FACADE SYSTEMS ARE ANALYZED AND COMPARED IN THE CONTEXT OF AN EXISTING BUILDING. ONE OF THE SYSTEMS IS CURRENTLY INSTALLED AND HAS BEEN RECENTLY RETROFITTED, WHILE THE OTHER THREE ARE DESIGN PROPOSALS WHICH FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING ASPECTS: PERFORMANCE AND DAYLIGHT, MINIMAL STRUCTURE AND ADAPTABILITY.
Sponsorship: Sobek, Werner
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Title: Remote Home: a handcrafted, component-based solution for southwest living: cordell_masters_booklet_2012
Creator: Cordell, Christopher
Date: 2012-05-01, 2012-05
Description: A prefabricated home with componentry optimized for simple fabrication and human-scale labor. This project explores the benefits of linking...
Show moreA prefabricated home with componentry optimized for simple fabrication and human-scale labor. This project explores the benefits of linking digital design and prefabrication to maximize construction efficiency and minimize on-site delays. Its physically remote location also necessitates a highly light and mobile solution that is simple in construction.
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Title: The Collegiate Strip: An Urban Renewal of Main Street
Creator: Wade, Jessica
Date: 2012-04-30, 2012
Description: This project was a look at redeveloping Main Street in Buffalo,New York to become a new Collegiate Strip for College students. The detailed...
Show moreThis project was a look at redeveloping Main Street in Buffalo,New York to become a new Collegiate Strip for College students. The detailed site located at the intersection of Jewett Avenue and Main Street provided a new 'Arts Node' where students could live, perform, and practice their given talents. This site also provided a connection to the existing Tri-Main Center which allows public display space for artistic individuals. An infrastructural addition over the existing railway system provided additional outdoor space labeled a 'social alley' that connected Main Street and Jewett Avenue and provided more creative space between the Tri-Main Center and the new Arts Node.
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Title: High-rise mix-use: Mei Chuan Master Project booklet
Creator: Mei, Chuan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05

Title: HIGH RISE BUILDING: var
Creator: Sun, Yanfang
Date: 2012-05-08, 2012-05
Description: MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY

Title: HIGH RISE BUILDING: turbine detail view
Creator: Sun, Yanfang
Date: 2012-05-08, 2012-05
Description: MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY

Title: Space|Place: CharlottePage_Master's Project_BoardPamphlets
Creator: Page, Charlotte
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: A commentary on Education: examination of the experience of the subject (space) in relation to the object (place).
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin,...
Show moreA commentary on Education: examination of the experience of the subject (space) in relation to the object (place).
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin, Susan
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Title: Room For Growth
Creator: Mckenzie, Jennifer
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: The project is a resource center for formally incarcerated people returning to civil society. Many transitional facilities are overrun with...
Show moreThe project is a resource center for formally incarcerated people returning to civil society. Many transitional facilities are overrun with the great flux of people reentering society every year. Room for Growth project proposes to stabalize this group of people by offering another option of counseling centers, housing and work training facilities in the Washington Park neighborhood of Chicago.
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Title: PHOTONASTIC Innovative Facade Technology: L_ROMERO_FINAL_BOOK
Creator: Romero, Loretta
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: PHOTONASTIC is a concept addressing the invention, design, production and potential implementation of a building integrated system. The system...
Show morePHOTONASTIC is a concept addressing the invention, design, production and potential implementation of a building integrated system. The system attempts to address the relationship between energy conservation and architectural facade innovation. The skin affects both the appearance and performance in such a way that these features promote new design concepts and stimulate technical developments for the architecture of the future.
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Title: Reviving the Lost Art: Reviving the lost art
Creator: Nguyen, Chung Thuy
Date: 2011-04, 2011-05
Description: The goal of the project is to celebrate the craftsmanship of lacquer painting and to revive the lacquer village in a new urban context

Title: Space|Place
Creator: Page, Charlotte
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: A commentary on Education: examination of the experience of the subject (space) in relation to the object (place).
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin,...
Show moreA commentary on Education: examination of the experience of the subject (space) in relation to the object (place).
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin, Susan
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Title: Urban Sanctuary: Life and Revitalization Center
Creator: Venia Iii, Ellis
Date: 2012-04-29, 2012-05
Description: The project is a revitalization and life center for people and their families living with diabetes. The goal of the facility is to provide a...
Show moreThe project is a revitalization and life center for people and their families living with diabetes. The goal of the facility is to provide a place to escape from everyday living. Elements to improve the knowledge and livelihoods of individuals who have been diagnosed with the disease will be implemented allowing the project to become a central node. Creating an environment that promotes relaxation and revitalization within an urban context is of great importance to the project. Partnerships with relative medical facilities will establish a client base and ease the access to the facility. If used successfully, the project could be a cornerstone to multiple facilities across the country.
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Title: Bucktown Artist's Live/Work Cooperative: COLLIER_Final_MP
Creator: Collier, T Scott
Date: 2011-05, 2011-05
Description: By creating affordable live-work environments and a cooperative production facility the project will reestablish the Bucktown neighborhood as...
Show moreBy creating affordable live-work environments and a cooperative production facility the project will reestablish the Bucktown neighborhood as a strong and viable artist community in the city of Chicago.
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Title: Multi- Generational Housing in China
Creator: Liu, Ling
Date: 2011-05, 2011-05
Description: In China, too much population causes early retire age, one child policy, extremely high housing pressure, too little land for open space,...
Show moreIn China, too much population causes early retire age, one child policy, extremely high housing pressure, too little land for open space, little or no public facilities. Also, it causes the lost of many long tradition. The losing of multi- generational living is just one of them. This project is a humanistic response to the social problems.
Sponsorship: Denison, Dirk
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Title: Bridging the Gap: Multi-Generational Community Center: Thesis Book
Creator: Lunn, Elizabeth
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: This community center was designed to make connections between the different generations to create a truly united community, not just a...
Show moreThis community center was designed to make connections between the different generations to create a truly united community, not just a neighborhood. Each generation has something that they can bring to others, but this rarely happens because each generation normally congregates together, which isolates themselves from the others. The community center provides opportunities to create these connections. These opportunities will be through Music, Fitness, Art and Education.
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Title: INTERCULTURAL ERASMUS PROGRAM STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS
Creator: Elmas, Kemal
Date: 2012-05, 2012-05

Title: Library ReDefinition: LibraryRedefinitionPresentation
Creator: Avery, Brian
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: The Alcuin Library was designed in the 1960's by Marcel Breuer when the purpose of a library was to provide storage of, and access to,...
Show moreThe Alcuin Library was designed in the 1960's by Marcel Breuer when the purpose of a library was to provide storage of, and access to, information. This project is an addition and renovation of the existing academic library into a campus center concentrated on learning information.
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Title: HIGH RISE BUILDING: section
Creator: Sun, Yanfang
Date: 2012-05-08, 2012-05
Description: MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY

Title: artiFACT: Art & Cinema Center, Rethinking of Contextuality through Boundaries: M. Enis Aldallal - Master Project - Spring11
Creator: Aldallal, Mohamed Enis
Date: 5/3/2011, 2011-05
Description: Boundary: Sight and Access: Breaking the programmatic elements into fragments allows responding to different contextual forces. Engaging those...
Show moreBoundary: Sight and Access: Breaking the programmatic elements into fragments allows responding to different contextual forces. Engaging those forces to create a site-specific design can be achieved by means of porous skin and a dynamic circulation pattern that occupies boundary spaces throughout the site. This provides smoother transition moments between inside and outside on different scales; from collective urban spaces down to the building` skin.
Sponsorship: Kulterman, Eva
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Title: Moments of Understanding - Tribal Culture Center
Creator: Hussain, Tanveer
Date: 2012-05-01, 2012-05
Description: The main purpose of the Tribal Cultural Center is to offer a platform for the local public, tribal country’s key leaders to communicate with...
Show moreThe main purpose of the Tribal Cultural Center is to offer a platform for the local public, tribal country’s key leaders to communicate with the goal of promoting peace and prosperity to the region. This project will help these leaders create the moments of understanding for the future of generations to come (Power of democracy). It will also help to educate and train the young tribesmen so they can contribute their knowledge to their local tribes. Architecturally, site planning, landscape design and using the traditional local materials with modern construction techniques were explored.
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