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Title: RE-POSITIONING THE CHICAGO BOULEVARD SYSTEM: TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF AN ACTIVE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
Creator: Vadacca, Anna
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: How can urban infrastructures be reinterpreted based on their social potential? The thesis discusses the value that infrastructures can have...
Show moreHow can urban infrastructures be reinterpreted based on their social potential? The thesis discusses the value that infrastructures can have in relation to mobility and quality of life, in the context of the urban project, and proposes an example of how underutilized spaces, that pertains to an outdated model of the city, can be re-configured as adaptable and dynamic infrastructures. The Boulevard System of Chicago emerged during the process of “beautification” that the “City Beautiful” movement fostered in the 19th century. From being the “Emerald Necklace”, as it was known, the Boulevard System became today a fragmented infrastructure that mirrors the socio-economic segregation of Chicago neighborhoods. Within the archipelago of different urban realities of the city, the Boulevard System represents today an under-utilized urban space that reinforces the already existing urban thresholds between different urban communities. The goal of the research is to re-think the Boulevard System as a new transportation corridor, able to interact with other urban systems. The proposal for the boulevards is part of an Infrastructure Plan for Chicago that aims to propose ways inwhich different actions on infrastructure can revitalize the City. The idea is to re-activate the boulevard through a series of interventions, articulated around the re-connection of the fragmented system, as a new “ring” infrastructure, and the engagement with the surrounding specificities. The proposed Bus Rapid Transit system should offer an experience through the parks in Chicago and support its reactivation through the promotion of activities and events. Furthermore, the creation of a hub around the Garfield Green Line station is meant to propose a more engaging transit experience around the city of Chicago.
M.S. in Architecture, May 2016
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Title: NOVEL AUTONOMOUS DRONE ARCHITECTURE WITH WIRELESS NETWORK USING REAL-TIME SIGNAL PROCESSING AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR ASSISTING RESCUE SERVICE
Creator: Kim, Heekyung
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: The Autonomous Drone can be economically one of the effective and efficient tools for disaster management. In this research, for disaster...
Show moreThe Autonomous Drone can be economically one of the effective and efficient tools for disaster management. In this research, for disaster relief operations, Autonomous Drone Architecture with wireless network provides disaster assistance by tracking a survivor and getting important information from multiple sensors on it. [1] ADWN architecture consist of two different platforms, Raspberry pi and Arduino, to separate their roles of the process, which are like collecting the sensor data and sending control signal from Raspberry Pi to Arduino. Once gathering data from sensors and transmitting it to Raspberry Pi, it can analysis by applying signal processing formula in real-time. [2] In this case, Raspberry Pi can multitask process and use various language libraries such as OpenCV, Python, and others. Also, Raspberry Pi can add lots of sensors, a camera, and other kinds of boards. Using these features, transmitted data can be processed in real-time and be sending to Arduino to control with reduced error. These strength of ADWN architecture provides scalability and high availability to control drone as a disaster assistance.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2015
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Title: SHARING COMMUNITY HOUSING YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN CHINESE BIG CITIES
Creator: ZHANG, HAOYU
Date: 2018
Description: In the past few decades, China has achieved an unbelievable fast development, from a poor after-war country to the second largest economy in...
Show moreIn the past few decades, China has achieved an unbelievable fast development, from a poor after-war country to the second largest economy in the world. Under the leadership of the Chinese central government and people’s corporate effort, China made significant achievements in its economic growth, modernization construction. With these achievements, Chinese urbanization has gone through a rapid development and expansion process. Nowadays, city living quality and urban development became one of the most popular focal points in Chinese people’s daily life.The Chinese urbanization enters rapid expansion era. Urbanization with Chinese characteristics does bring a rich material life and improve the standard of people’s living. Meanwhile, city problems started to appear and bring inexpediency and troubles to urban resident’s daily life. At the same time when cities are developing, the distance between people seems to get further. Comparing to other groups of people, the young professionals, are facing more challenges in the cities. They are under pressure from intense competition and high living cost. Most of them must live in space with bad conditions and gradually lose confidence under the heavy load from life. They are also in self-enclosed status, losing normal social relationships and scare to communicate with others. In Chinese big cities, having a comfortable space to live and not being lonely seems to be an unattainable wish for the young generation. Meanwhile, as an emerging economic pattern, Sharing Economy started to appear in most countries of the world during past years. China, as one of the largest economies, and a country with extremely high population base and rapid development speed became the best place for sharing economy to be developed. The Chinese urbanization situation gave a massive push to the sharing economy which is highly expected and considered to be able to solve the problem of conflict between people and urban. This thesis aims to prove that the idea of sharing can create an efficient, economical and comfortable living environment for young professionals in Chinese big cities, by looking at the urbanization with Chinese characteristics, young professionals living conditions, the development of sharing economy in China and developing a community prototype. This community will help young people to relieve living stress and rebuild social connections, also become a solution to reduce the conflict between young professionals and urban environment.
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Title: THE LATIN AMERICAN EXPORT: IMPLEMENTING LATIN AMERICAN URBAN STRATEGIES TO REDEVELOP AND RECONSTRUCT BRONZEVILLE
Creator: Saldaña Perales, Alejandro
Date: 2018
Description: The district and neighborhood of Bronzeville, located in the Near South Side of Chicago, suffers from crime, unemployment, abandonment, and...
Show moreThe district and neighborhood of Bronzeville, located in the Near South Side of Chicago, suffers from crime, unemployment, abandonment, and urban decay; more so than many of its metropolitan peers such as New York City, Los Angeles, or San Francisco.In Latin America, multidisciplinary operations and strategies focused on the investment in public spaces, mobility, and public assets have been successful in transforming decaying neighborhoods and redeveloping slums and blighted areas turning them into vibrant communities.Contextualizing and abstracting such strategies has the potential to import such ideas into new urban contexts; in this case, the United States of America, and to be implemented over the decaying North American urban fabric.
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Title: ENERGY INNOVATIONS IN BUILDINGS AND URBAN FABRICS
Creator: Hirematt, Chandrasekharaiah Ashish
Date: 2021
Description: In his keynote speech on the "Infrastructures of Integration" at the 5th International LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, Ricky...
Show moreIn his keynote speech on the "Infrastructures of Integration" at the 5th International LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), said “…you can actually invest in better infrastructure to do things better.” However, the population grows at the rate of almost one billion per decade. With about four fifths of it happening in urban areas, the challenge for sustainability is huge and the key for the future.Urban fabrics are expanding both vertically as well as horizontally to accommodate the population growth. With the scale of expansion happening, challenges such deforestation, resource depletion, habitat destruction, energy production and consumption are some of the major challenges that need to be focused on ecologically. It is also important to note that ecological solutions are very highly dependent on social and economic progress of the society. Energy efficient design is one which does zero or minimal damage to the environment while meeting the energy needs of the society. This thesis will discuss the concept of developing energy efficient designs as well as net zero designs in urban settings. With the help of three projects, this thesis aims to discover the challenges along with the obvious advantages of such designs. The first experiment is to look at the reduction of energy consumption in the city of Chicago with multiple neighborhoods set up in an iron grid. It was observed that taller buildings are much more energy efficient due to the reduction of surface area exposed to the external environment. This observation was used to develop a climate specific energy efficient urban fabric design in the city of Shenzhen. The design of the off-shore tower involves tackling larger issues such as the pandemic while having energy production as a bi-product of the same. Thus, the thesis argues that investment in infrastructure to build a better infrastructure should be done to solve social and economic challenges which will, in turn make it easier to produce energy efficient designs.
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Title: Regenerating the Jordan River: Through Ecological and Sociocultural Interventions
Creator: Shadid, Rula
Date: 2019
Description: The Jordan River is often described as one of the world’s most unique eco-systems and is attributed to serving as a cradle of history, culture...
Show moreThe Jordan River is often described as one of the world’s most unique eco-systems and is attributed to serving as a cradle of history, culture, and spirituality in the ancient and modern times. Archaeological evidence on its banks reveal signs of some of the world’s earliest existences of civilization. Its history as a meeting place for the crossing and exchange between plants, animals, and human societies, along with its strong association to three of the world’s great religions – Christianity, Islam, and Judaism – has made it a world known and important site. Being located in the Middle East, in the heart of a complex political conflict that has been ongoing since the middle of the last century, years of war, political clashes, and water and resource exploitation has reduced the river from a once lush and bio-diverse ecosystem to nothing but a polluted stream. Today the river is a “hydro-border” that divides the competing nations around it and segregates the people of the Jordan Valley in which the river runs via militarized security efforts. The conflict has left the region politically and socially segregated and has eliminated the productive exchange which once allowed the valley to thrive while efforts to protect, preserve, or rehabilitate the river are given little chance to succeed. The thesis addresses river degradation and social segregation as two interdependent issues in the Jordan Valley. It highlights saving the Jordan River as a driver for integration between the conflicting society and points to the Jordan Valley river border as a site for regenerative interventions that suggest an alternative and productive way of life in an area filled with conflict, economic distress, and spatial divide through the collaboration and exchange of efforts, ideas, and resources.
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Title: WIND MICRO-CLIMATE CONFORMATION IN HOT DRY CITIES; RIYADH
Creator: Alhawsah, Saeed Idris
Date: 2019
Description: Recently, the transformation in urban development in Saudi Arabia has caused abrupt and sporadic change to its desert climate. Careful...
Show moreRecently, the transformation in urban development in Saudi Arabia has caused abrupt and sporadic change to its desert climate. Careful environmental consideration of vernacular architecture practices is lost by the vast modernization. The significant changes of modernization contain desertification, sand rapping due to massive urban construction, and urban heat islands, all that has created a severe issue with sandstorms. Saudi’s modernization changed sandstorms phenomena from its seasonal occasions to a frequent rapid increase as a result of the urban inability to maintain its naturally mild and soothing condition. All the global incidents from the natural refugees in Gobi Desert, China, to the 1930s U.S. dustbowl are evident to the urban environmental disturbance. This research is an environmental investigation to reduce the sandstorm effects in Saudi Arabia through designing multiple territorial landscape interventions to filter out the sandstorms and trap its sediments to avoid reoccurring sandstorms.
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Title: Bungalow - Alternate front elevations for wide or narrow lots
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1990
Description: Hand-colored laser print.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Tahiti Hotel: Village des Pecheurs
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1990-11
Description: Color conceptual drawing of a "fishermen's village" for the Sheraton Hotel project on the island of Moorea, northwest of Tahiti.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Tahiti Hotel: Seaside bungalow
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1990-11
Description: Color conceptual drawing of a bungalow for the Sheraton Hotel project on the island of Moorea, northwest of Tahiti.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Tahiti Hotel: Des Terrasses
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1990-11
Description: Color conceptual drawing of terraces for the Sheraton Hotel project on the island of Moorea, northwest of Tahiti.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Tahiti Hotel: View of chute with spa in the foreground
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1990-11-06
Description: Color conceptual drawing of the spa for the Sheraton Hotel project on the island of Moorea, northwest of Tahiti.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Mama Mia Pasta Interior, 1981
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1981
Description: Photograph of the Mama Mia Pasta interior, ca. 1981.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Mama Mia Pasta Interior, 1981
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1981
Description: Photograph of the Mama Mia Pasta interior, ca. 1981.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Mama Mia Pasta - Concept Sketch
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip, Robert Gordon Associates
Date: 1981-05
Description: Color concept sketch for the Mama Mia Pasta interior, 1981.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Indiana Lofts
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1980
Description: Full color architectural sketch of the Indiana Lofts project. Dated 1980, 5"x7".
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Indiana Lofts - West View
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1980-12
Description: Full color architectural sketch of the Indiana Lofts project, showing a west view of the building. Dated December 1980, 5"x7".
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Indiana Lofts - East View
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1981
Description: Full color architectural sketch of the Indiana Lofts project, showing an east view of the building. Dated 1981, 7"x5".
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Tahiti Hotel: Rooms overlooking the Pacifc
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1990-11
Description: Color conceptual drawing of terraces overlooking the Pacific Ocean for the Sheraton Hotel project on the island of Moorea, northwest of Tahiti.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

Title: Tahiti Hotel: Full moon dance
Creator: Gordon, Robert Philip
Date: 1990-11
Description: Color conceptual drawing for the Sheraton Hotel project on the island of Moorea, northwest of Tahiti.
Collection: Robert Philip Gordon papers, 1963-2010

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