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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: The Collegiate Strip: An Urban Renewal of Main Street: FinalBoard1
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 BUILDING: separate model analysis
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: 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: Adaptive Reuse Hybrid Development: HenryJarzabkowski_MastersProject_AdaptiveReuseHybridDevelopment_SP11
Creator: Jarzabkowski, Henry
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: 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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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: HIGH RISE BUILDING
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: Supportive Urbanism: Tower + Field: 120501 Supportive Urbanism
Creator: Newman, Taylor
Date: 2012-05-01, 2012-05
Description: reexamination of centralized supportive housing in an urban context emphasizing the supportive characteristics of a productive green space....
Show morereexamination of centralized supportive housing in an urban context emphasizing the supportive characteristics of a productive green space. Other supportive elements at grade include culinary training, mixed use units, and transportation center.
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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: Protecting the Artists' Social Construct in a Mutually Beneficial Developer Environment
Creator: Sheen, Daniel
Date: 2011, 2011-05
Description: This project is a mixed-use high rise which will incorporate the program of the newly constructed high rise buildings of retail, hotel, and...
Show moreThis project is a mixed-use high rise which will incorporate the program of the newly constructed high rise buildings of retail, hotel, and condominiums with the program of the existing Powerhouse Arts District, art gallery, auction house, art work spaces, and artist lofts. In order for this combination of program to occur and to retain developer interest in this high rise tower, relationships between the program were investigated. Typical “inefficient” or unleasable spaces in a traditional high rise were used as opportunities to incorporate these art district programs into the site. Artist lofts were design on the perimeter of the mechanical floors to take advantage of double height spaces as well as privacy. Art galleries, and an auction house was incorporated on the lower service level in order to take advantage of loading/unloading access. Art work spaces were designed around program which required column free spacing and a sunken art plaza was designed to add additional frontage to different retail and art programs located below grade. The design of both the high rise and its program intends to restore the deteriorating identity of the Powerhouse Arts District in Jersey City, NJ.
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Title: Re-entry Residential Community: final boards
Creator: Kasargod Pattanshetty, Priyanka Rao
Date: 2012-04-29, 2012-05
Description: Re-entry residential communities are an integral part of the criminal justice system. They focus on re-entry prepartion, including job...
Show moreRe-entry residential communities are an integral part of the criminal justice system. They focus on re-entry prepartion, including job training and drug treatment. These group homes are located in the community where inmates serve a period of time after being released from federal prison, in order to prepare for reentering the community. The inmates are required to go outside during the day to work or participate in community services. Law offenders are housed in penal establishments as a punishment not for punishment. Preservation of personality & prevention of deterioration call for as high a priority as efforts to bring about the inmates’ re-entry into the society. Hence the concept of correction, reformation & rehabilitation of prison inmates should come to the forefront of any community correction center’s adminstration.
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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: 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: e.N.U.P.H.; Efficient New Urban Phoenix Housing
Creator: Troia, Matthew
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: 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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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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Title: Chicago Casino: GrainElevatorReuse_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: Supportive Urbanism: Tower + Field
Creator: Newman, Taylor
Date: 2012-05-01, 2012-05
Description: reexamination of centralized supportive housing in an urban context emphasizing the supportive characteristics of a productive green space....
Show morereexamination of centralized supportive housing in an urban context emphasizing the supportive characteristics of a productive green space. Other supportive elements at grade include culinary training, mixed use units, and transportation center.
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Title: Evolution: A holistic rejuvenation and wellness center, Chicago: RAMESHWARI TAKLE FINAL BOARD
Creator: Takle, Rameshwari
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: My thesis proposition is to design a center for yoga, meditation and spa. The idea is to engage architecture, hospitality and interior design...
Show moreMy thesis proposition is to design a center for yoga, meditation and spa. The idea is to engage architecture, hospitality and interior design as a medium to create a space for an overall holistic experience. I am interested in the ethereal qualities in nature and their ability to tranquilize a person’s state of mind.
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