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- New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7334_EDIT_Crop"
- Creator
- Quinn, Aidan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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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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- Mixed-use High-rise
- Creator
- Lei, Lei
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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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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- INTERCULTURAL ERASMUS PROGRAM STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS: toplu
- Creator
- Elmas, Kemal
- Date
- 2012-05, 2012-05
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- Facade Retrofit - High Performance Facade Systems for an Existing Building
- Creator
- Velichkova, Gergana
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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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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- Remote Home: a handcrafted, component-based solution for southwest living: cordell_masters_booklet_2012
- Creator
- Cordell, Christopher
- Date
- 2012-05-01, 2012-05
- Description
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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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- Urban Sanctuary: Life and Revitalization Center
- Creator
- Venia Iii, Ellis
- Date
- 2012-04-29, 2012-05
- Description
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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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- Multi- Generational Housing in China
- Creator
- Liu, Ling
- Date
- 2011-05, 2011-05
- Description
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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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- INTERCULTURAL ERASMUS PROGRAM STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS
- Creator
- Elmas, Kemal
- Date
- 2012-05, 2012-05
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- e.N.U.P.H.; Efficient New Urban Phoenix Housing: e.N.U.P.H. Desert Typology_Document
- Creator
- Troia, Matthew
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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e.N.U.P.H. is an alternative typology to current suburban tract home sprawl in the American southwest. Retail shops, offices, a supermarket,...
Show moree.N.U.P.H. is an alternative typology to current suburban tract home sprawl in the American southwest. Retail shops, offices, a supermarket, plaza, and residences are combined in a courtyard building that takes advantage of mountain views to the east and south through gradually sloping forms. As an alternative to suburban homes, emphasis is placed on the generous private outdoor living area of each residence, as well as amenities like the roof, sun, and pool decks. e.N.U.P.H. preserves the Phoenician’s desire for individuality and private space with the liveliness of a public plaza in a sustainable, efficient, and medium-density desert typology.
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- 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
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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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- Adaptive Reuse Hybrid Development
- Creator
- Jarzabkowski, Henry
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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Producing and designing a prototype hybrid use development strategy for a neighboring pair of preexisting historical building in Chicago’s...
Show moreProducing and designing a prototype hybrid use development strategy for a neighboring pair of preexisting historical building in Chicago’s North side community of Lakeview.
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- Improved Life Cycle Performance for Construction of Big Box Retail
- Creator
- Pidgeon, Amanda
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This project compares multiple construction materials and assemblies in order to find options which will improve the life cycle performance of...
Show moreThis project compares multiple construction materials and assemblies in order to find options which will improve the life cycle performance of retail big box structures, using Walmart Supercenters as a specific case study. It utilizes the Athena EcoCalculator to accomplish this task.
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- Fostering Synergy: Masters Project Boards_2012AC-final
- Creator
- Cooper, Andrea
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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Fostering Synergy will create a community based support system by pairing young mothers outgrowing the foster care system with community...
Show moreFostering Synergy will create a community based support system by pairing young mothers outgrowing the foster care system with community matriarchs in need of companionship. Each generation has social and physical needs that can be eased through the Fostering Synergy support system.
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- e.N.U.P.H.; Efficient New Urban Phoenix Housing: e.N.U.P.H. Desert Typology_Presentation Boards
- Creator
- Troia, Matthew
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Description
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e.N.U.P.H. is an alternative typology to current suburban tract home sprawl in the American southwest. Retail shops, offices, a supermarket,...
Show moree.N.U.P.H. is an alternative typology to current suburban tract home sprawl in the American southwest. Retail shops, offices, a supermarket, plaza, and residences are combined in a courtyard building that takes advantage of mountain views to the east and south through gradually sloping forms. As an alternative to suburban homes, emphasis is placed on the generous private outdoor living area of each residence, as well as amenities like the roof, sun, and pool decks. e.N.U.P.H. preserves the Phoenician’s desire for individuality and private space with the liveliness of a public plaza in a sustainable, efficient, and medium-density desert typology.
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- Urban Sanctuary: Life and Revitalization Center: Ellis Venia III - Graphic Argument + Presentations
- Creator
- Venia Iii, Ellis
- Date
- 2012-04-29, 2012-05
- Description
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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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- Howell Mountain Winery: Final_Boards
- Creator
- Duggan, Michael
- Date
- 2012-04-21, 2012-05
- Description
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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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- INTERCULTURAL ERASMUS PROGRAM STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS: boards_kemalelmas
- Creator
- Elmas, Kemal
- Date
- 2012-05, 2012-05
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- Graduate Student Dwelling
- Creator
- Janica, H
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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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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- Multi- Generational Housing in China: Mixed-use Multi- Generational Housing in China
- Creator
- Liu, Ling
- Date
- 2011-05, 2011-05
- Description
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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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- Adaptive Building Skin
- Creator
- Kim, Minjae
- Date
- 2010-05-01, 2010-05-01
- Description
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City is made up of diversity and density. Diverse factors make activities and different relationships in a city. These are very sensitive to...
Show moreCity is made up of diversity and density. Diverse factors make activities and different relationships in a city. These are very sensitive to other factors’ changes. Their various responses make city dynamic and finally characterize the face of a city or a town. Buildings are one of dynamic factors in a city. The building facade which determines building’s identity marks the transition between outside and inside. The facade has a strong relationship between building programs and urban activities. Their looks make a huge effect on urban environment. But buildings’ configuration is fixed once design choices are made. Buildings are conceived as a rigid objects and inflexible, unresponsive, and unsustainable. Considering that buildings are the largest contributor to the city environment, building should be responsive to changes and facade performance should be more active to building programs. Adaptive building facade will be the means that can address these challenges.
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