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Title: WasteLESS Modular Housing: FINAL_BrodmarkleEmerson_IITsubmission
Creator: Emerson, Melissa
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project aimed to create efficient housing for the average American with the ability to customize their home to their own needs, lifestyle...
Show moreThis project aimed to create efficient housing for the average American with the ability to customize their home to their own needs, lifestyle, and aesthetics. In addition, the feasibility of pre-fabricated portions of the home made this more realistic in terms of cost and the quickness of its construct-ability for each potential home owner.
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Title: Overlap Overlay
Creator: Wankel, Jordan
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: The purpose of this overlay is to provide the proper mechanics which allows a new type of home ownership while addressing current urban...
Show moreThe purpose of this overlay is to provide the proper mechanics which allows a new type of home ownership while addressing current urban vacancy. The overlay attempts to be democratic. It establishes basic rules based on the existing block requirements, while also providing flexibility within. Residents voluntarily participate in the system, benefiting from the whole. Social interactions, block orientated activities, and housing arrangements expand and contract over time.
Sponsorship: Goodman, David
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Title: Urban Sanctuary: Life and Revitalization Center: Ellis Venia III - Graphic Argument + Presentations
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: Howell Mountain Winery: Final_Boards
Creator: Duggan, Michael
Date: 2012-04-21, 2012-05
Description: Howell Mountain is a distinct and unique location in the heart of Napa Valley California. The 45 acres site rests on the mountain’s south west...
Show moreHowell Mountain is a distinct and unique location in the heart of Napa Valley California. The 45 acres site rests on the mountain’s south west slopes and is planted with high quality grapes used in the production of red wine. When the fog rolls off the ocean and into the Napa Valley, the weather on Howell Mountain is generally sunny and cool. The appellation owes its distinctive climate to the fact that it is positioned high above the valley floor. The program includes both the wine production facilities and the hospitality facilities for visitors. The driving concept of the project is to merge those two, often opposing, programmatic elements. From west to east, the site has a 43% grade change. By designing a gravity flow winery, this facility can take advantage of that significant slope.
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Title: Graduate Student Dwelling
Creator: Janica, H
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: The project will seek to create an environment for that fosters living, community, and learning for graduate students at Illinois Institute of...
Show moreThe project will seek to create an environment for that fosters living, community, and learning for graduate students at Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Title: Hutong Skyscraper high-rise studio
Creator: Zhang, He
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05

Title: Chicago Casino
Creator: Sholar, Scott
Date: 4/13/2011, 2011-05
Description: Transforming abandoned grain elevators while redefining the normal Casino typology. Understanding the capabilities of abandoned grain...
Show moreTransforming abandoned grain elevators while redefining the normal Casino typology. Understanding the capabilities of abandoned grain elevators and how they can be reused to create a successful design.
Sponsorship: Felsen, Martin
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Title: Monumental Adaptation: Reimagining the Old Chicago Post Office: NT_masters project_final book
Creator: Turgeon, Noel
Date: 2012-05-01, 2012-05
Description: MONUMENTAL ADAPTATION: REIMAGINING THE OLD CHICAGO POST OFFICE Built in 1932, the Old Chicago Main Post Office was the largest post office in...
Show moreMONUMENTAL ADAPTATION: REIMAGINING THE OLD CHICAGO POST OFFICE Built in 1932, the Old Chicago Main Post Office was the largest post office in the world at three million square feet. It was designed to accommodate the extension of Congress Parkway and in 1953 the Eisenhower Expressway cut a void through the center of the building. Finally the Post Office was vacated in 1997 and remains unused to this day. This project proposes the adaptation of the Post Office into a hybrid fieldhouse that contains public recreation and retail space. This proposal keeps the Post Office public, utilizing income generated through retail to maintain the building for Chicagoans. Recreation program is inserted into voids carved out of the original building. Retail occupies the peripheral space, surrounding the voids.
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Title: All Season Recreation Center: ERIC GREBLIUNAS FINAL THESIS
Creator: Grebliunas, Eric
Date: 2012-04-30, 2012-05
Description: The center is a celebration of Chicago's unique seasonal opportunities and will encourage the inherent entertainment nature provides. This is...
Show moreThe center is a celebration of Chicago's unique seasonal opportunities and will encourage the inherent entertainment nature provides. This is a structurally determinate project.
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Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components": Boards_4_A_4-25-12
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: Oil Rig Eco Hotel: OilRigEcoHotel_Poster
Creator: Marcan, Stephanie
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: By refashioning the design and programmatic use of an offshore oil rig into a luxury hotel for ecotourists, a new age of responsible travel...
Show moreBy refashioning the design and programmatic use of an offshore oil rig into a luxury hotel for ecotourists, a new age of responsible travel may emerge. By twisting the symbol of oil dependency into an ecologically preserved, environmentally accountable and revenue-producing prototype, the ideals of reuse, energy and environment can be viewed through a new lens. This design creates interesting and innovative living spaces and environments aided by sustainable integrations to create a “living machine” that establishes connections between all building systems as well as inhabitant inputs and outputs resulting in an energy independent habitat.
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Title: PHOTONASTIC Innovative Facade Technology: L.ROMERO_FACADE_ANIMATION
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: Introspective Landscape: Efficient Residential Housing: Nate Allen Final Book
Creator: Allen, Nate
Date: 2012-05, 2012-05
Description: This project is a contemporary revisit of the ideas behind Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses. The building consists of three separate...
Show moreThis project is a contemporary revisit of the ideas behind Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses. The building consists of three separate dwelling units on the same lot, a variation from the typical Chicago three-flat in that, rather than the three units being stacked one on top of the other, they are ordered linearly one after the other. The primary advantage of this arrangement is that each unit is allowed access to the ground floor, and to one of the three designated courtyard areas.
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Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components"
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: The Intrepid Penguin Lodge at Shackleton Station: AAA-Board
Creator: Tolsky, Benjamin
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: This is a design for a new research station in Antarctica that also includes Antarctica's first hotel as part of the station. The emphasis is...
Show moreThis is a design for a new research station in Antarctica that also includes Antarctica's first hotel as part of the station. The emphasis is on a modular design that is easily expandable and reconfigurable in order to meet the needs of future Antarctic research and tourism demands. The end result of the project is a single 16 minute animation to demonstrate life at the station both as a daily routine and a seasonal routine, as well as the logistics of shipping and constructing the station in Antarctica.
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Title: Sustainable Theme Park and Museum: KFujishima_Brochure02
Creator: Fujishima, Kenta
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: An indoor facility consisting of both theme park and museum components with the integration of green and sustainable elements.

Title: Howell Mountain Winery: FinalPresentation
Creator: Duggan, Michael
Date: 2012-04-21, 2012-05
Description: Howell Mountain is a distinct and unique location in the heart of Napa Valley California. The 45 acres site rests on the mountain’s south west...
Show moreHowell Mountain is a distinct and unique location in the heart of Napa Valley California. The 45 acres site rests on the mountain’s south west slopes and is planted with high quality grapes used in the production of red wine. When the fog rolls off the ocean and into the Napa Valley, the weather on Howell Mountain is generally sunny and cool. The appellation owes its distinctive climate to the fact that it is positioned high above the valley floor. The program includes both the wine production facilities and the hospitality facilities for visitors. The driving concept of the project is to merge those two, often opposing, programmatic elements. From west to east, the site has a 43% grade change. By designing a gravity flow winery, this facility can take advantage of that significant slope.
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Title: Digital Urban Park: Thornton Final
Creator: Thornton, Alastair
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: This project is a park that utilizes social networks and interactivity to convey and make physical the internet. This is explored through...
Show moreThis project is a park that utilizes social networks and interactivity to convey and make physical the internet. This is explored through three parts and varying levels of group interaction between both the users of the space and by the spaces direct influence from the internet.
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Title: waterWORKS: RW_MastersBoardFinal
Creator: Webster, Reed
Date: 5/3/2011, 2011-05
Description: Water shortages will be a global problem by the year 2025. With the Great Lakes Basin accounting for 95% of the fresh water in the United...
Show moreWater shortages will be a global problem by the year 2025. With the Great Lakes Basin accounting for 95% of the fresh water in the United States it will soon become our most valuable natural resource. In re-defining urban relationships to the Great Lakes a healthy, ecologically stable, and regenerative water system can become our greatest national asset. Providing a prototype solution for one of these urban areas (Traverse City, MI) may set a precedent for long term protection of the Great Lakes.
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Title: Facade Retrofit - High Performance Facade Systems for an Existing Building: FacadeRetrofit_Velichkova_Poster
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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