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Title: WIDESPAN: Masters Project
Creator: Ninan, Janice
Date: 2011-05, 2010-12
Description: Widespan design.Investigating the integration of windmills into longspan structure and investigating the axial forces of tension to span...
Show moreWidespan design.Investigating the integration of windmills into longspan structure and investigating the axial forces of tension to span grater spans using virtual depth concepts with slender lightweight design.
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Title: Oil Rig Eco Hotel
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: Overlap Overlay: Overlap Overlay Board
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: The Odd Couple
Creator: Bacheller, Tim
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: The socio-political structure of Belgium, a whole containing disparate parts, serves as the catalyst for The Odd Couple: two individual...
Show moreThe socio-political structure of Belgium, a whole containing disparate parts, serves as the catalyst for The Odd Couple: two individual secondary schools in Brussels, one Dutch-speaking, the other French-speaking, sharing the same site. The common element shared among the two schools is the public realm. Rather than shunning the public, the public is encouraged to actively engage in activities within the building. In this way the common spaces throughout the building take on the role of serving the needs and desires of both schools and the public, resulting in the necessity for dialogue and cooperation. By filtering program through a socio-political lens, a “school” typology emerges that emphasizes interaction and extramural learning.
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin, Susan
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Title: Moksha Tower
Creator: Fu, Yalin
Date: 2011-03, 2010-05
Description: In India, death is considered one of the most important stages of the whole human process.And the traditional funeral process occupied a great...
Show moreIn India, death is considered one of the most important stages of the whole human process.And the traditional funeral process occupied a great quantity of land in a country with a big population.Moksha tower(cemetery tower) created a high-rise cemetery in order , to free up previous ground floor cemetery green space for recreation. This would create a vertical resource for the handling and disposal of dead bodies, which would provide storage for the dead for only limited a period of time, in order to ensure adequate capacity to continually accommodate new dead.
Sponsorship: Wood, Antony
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Title: Latino Cultural Center in Chicago
Creator: Vidal, Francisco
Date: 2010-05-01, 2010-05-01
Description: As Latino immigrant families assimilate in to U.S. Society there is the risk that future generations will not learn about their history,...
Show moreAs Latino immigrant families assimilate in to U.S. Society there is the risk that future generations will not learn about their history, culture and traditions. Many Latin people born in the United States do not learn about their heritage, they just adapt to the American lifestyle. There is a need for new infrastructure that works as cultural exchange and support for this community. This Cultural Center is intended to be part of the existing downtown cultural infrastructure. The idea is to include it as part of the cultural and educational organizations in order to integrate it with tourism.
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Title: The Collegiate Strip: An Urban Renewal of Main Street: Wade-FinalGraphicArgument
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: Introspective Landscape: Efficient Residential Housing: Final Board2_001
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: Far Eastern Spatial Techique Utilized in Architectural Design
Creator: Qian, Zhao
Date: 2010-05-01, 2010-05-01
Description: This project spans techniques used in path, enclosure, play of light, perspective illusion, and time measurement. Concepts are arrived at by...
Show moreThis project spans techniques used in path, enclosure, play of light, perspective illusion, and time measurement. Concepts are arrived at by rational thought, expressing individual experience accessible by persons practicing meditation.
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Title: ADAPTATION AND RENOVATION OF SCHULZE BAKERY TO A MIXED USE BUILDING: master thesis Final Booklet-wigdan al-guneid
Creator: Al-guneid, Wigdan
Date: 5/2/2011, 2011-05
Description: Holding focus on techinics and strategies of development arc, a landmark building on the south side of Chicago will be re-adapted and...
Show moreHolding focus on techinics and strategies of development arc, a landmark building on the south side of Chicago will be re-adapted and transformed from a bakery to a much needed mixed use building.
Sponsorship: Waldorf, Tyler
Sponsorship: Denison, Dirk
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Title: The world's playground: final_board
Creator: Yeon, Eungju
Date: 2012-04-25, 2012-05
Description: Olympic cultural center for 2012, Korea

Title: The Brownfield Renewal Recreation Center: Final-board
Creator: Babakhanian, Rosika
Date: 5/10/2011, 2011-05
Description: This Project is an urban renewal of an abandoned post-industrial land in the calumet region located on Chicago’s far southeast. The Calumet...
Show moreThis Project is an urban renewal of an abandoned post-industrial land in the calumet region located on Chicago’s far southeast. The Calumet region was once the largest and richest wetland in lower north America, but 120 years of intensive industrialization, pollution and waste disposal tailored the ecosystem of this region and resulted in thousands of acres of brownfields.
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Title: Moments of Understanding - Tribal Culture Center: Moments of Understanding - Tribal Culture Center (Project)
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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Title: WasteLESS Modular Housing: FINAL_BOARDS_landscape_BrodmarkleEmerson
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: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7334_EDIT_Crop"
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: Center for Civil Disobedience
Creator: Pantazis, Steven
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: An Architecture to formalize the process of civil disobedience. It raises awareness of the implications of the privatization of public space

Title: Mixed-use High-rise
Creator: Lei, Lei
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: Located in an area that is multi-functionally operated, where old meet new, the tower is not to be a stand-alone artiface, but a new comer who...
Show moreLocated in an area that is multi-functionally operated, where old meet new, the tower is not to be a stand-alone artiface, but a new comer who can naturally fit in the existing surroundings. The curved outline of the building undoubtedly radiating the style of new, facing old low-rises near by. However, conflict is reduced to a minimum level, by its softed surfaces and transparent material, as well as the recesses on the surfaces of the building.
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Title: Captured Moments: A Concept for a K-12 Urban School
Creator: Twardowski, Jacqueline
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: The inspiration to develop a vertical urban school originates from rising urban density and the lack of interconnection and identity in some...
Show moreThe inspiration to develop a vertical urban school originates from rising urban density and the lack of interconnection and identity in some urban environments. The urban condition is a construct of rhythm, memory, and the sensory. This condition is illuminated through the dense activity and interaction of city life. This scheme embraces the layers of activity and vibrancies inherent in the operation of schools and cities.
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Title: INTERCULTURAL ERASMUS PROGRAM STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS: toplu
Creator: Elmas, Kemal
Date: 2012-05, 2012-05

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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