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Albert, Steven P.
Supportive Community Housing: Addressing the Emergence of Non-Traditional Households.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2005, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Supportive Community Housing | Addressing the emergence of non-traditional households presents a study of housing options for non-traditional families in America with the goal of providing appropriate model housing solutions for these often overlooked groups. This study examines how the traditional notions of the American Dream have failed non-traditional households and presents a set of principles to better address the needs of these groups. These principles generate specific design guidelines for an urban housing design proposal on a site in the Hill District neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By following the design principles and guidelines, the proposal presents a housing development suited to the site, neighborhood, community, and residents. As there are many potential ways of providing housing for non-traditional households, the design proposal functions as a case study for implementing the ideas explored within this thesis to create more appropriate housing communities.
Advisors/Committee Members: Burnham, Robert.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Housing; Supportive Community Housing; Housing Design; Multi-Family Housing; Non-traditional Households; Non-Traditional Housing; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Hill District; Single-Parent Housing
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Althoff, Mary.
Of Mud and Men: Rebuilding Community Identity After Disaster A Participatory Architectural Approach.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2007, University of Cincinnati
► The myriad loss due to social, economic, and physical conditions in regions…
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▼ The myriad loss due to social, economic, and physical conditions in regions affectedby disaster results in the need for both immediate reconstruction and longterm community development. However the lack of conceptual depth in the common short-term, fast response approaches to such crises neglects to address this long-term need. This thesis calls for a new methodology of disaster reconstruction based on sensitivity to individual community needs for physical, psychological, and economic healing. An architectural approach, utilizing local building materials and methods, exposes the potential for design and construction to aid in re-establishing a sense of community and cultural identity. Participation in aspects of design and construction allows victims of disaster to reclaim ownership of their built environment and engage deeper within the bond of their community. This proposal is manifested through the comprehensive design of a training center for micro-credit cooperatives in a tsunami-affected village of Tamil Nadu, India.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kanekar, Aarati.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: architecture; reconstruction; disaster; participation; india; micro credit
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ALTHOUSE, MATTHEW R.
transparent architecture | visible community.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2008, University of Cincinnati
► This thesis identifies the elements of community and the barriers that prevent…
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▼ This thesis identifies the elements of community and the barriers that prevent them from occurring. A community has to have elements of identity, pride, and confidence while dealing with issues of race, age and income. Using a transparent architecture, the barriers put forth in any specific neighborhood can be overcome and the community can exist. Transparent architecture can be translated at the urban scale, through massing and orientation, at the building scale, incorporating communal spaces, and at the human scale, with materials and textures. The built project will renew and maintain the neighborhood, generate income, establish pride and build confidence, through the use of a multi-use facility.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bible, G Thomas.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: community, transparent, architecture, pendleton, cincinnati
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Anderson, Kelly.
Raising Awareness through Ecotourism Architecture.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2009, University of Cincinnati
► The green movement has brought into focus our dependency on natural resources,…
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▼ The green movement has brought into focus our dependency on natural resources, and the unsustainable rate at which we are consuming them. Through the mechanization and standardization of almost all building systems, the user's interaction with these resources has decreased to almost nothing. The separation from these resources results in a lack of comprehension as to the massive amounts of vital resources we consume on a day-to-day basis as well as the natural world's impact on our well-being. By minimizing a building's dependence on mechanical systems and reestablishing the occupant's relationship with nature and natural resources through sustainable design, architecture can aid in recreating a connection to the natural environment and decrease our population's impact on the earth.This thesis will explore the design possibilities for an ecotourism resort that promotes a sustainable consumption of resources and lifestyle. An ecotourism resort provides an intimate attractive natural setting where guests can witness first-hand a successful cooperative relationship between the built environment and the natural habitat where it is located, without sacrificing accustomed creature comforts. Designing opportunities for indirect learning experiences can result in an informal education of the guests by raising awareness of resources consumed and the implications of their actions and daily life. These subtle moves can then result in behavior modifications that the visitors will be able to take from their experience and apply to every day life habits.
Advisors/Committee Members: Larson, Gerald.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: ecotourism; resort; sustainable; green; sustainability; dominica; design; behavior modification; natural resources; raising awareness; nature
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Andrade, Otto A.
fragmentation project : framing + linking + bracketing Space.City (Seattle) in 81 scenes.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2010, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Multi-dimensional space is a system of systems [SOS], assembled as a kit of parts through syntactic devices [SDEVS]. With the excuse of aesthetic resolution, SDEVS often mask the uneasy fit of components of all scales that are enslaved to wholistic readings. As a result, architecture avoids fragmentation. In response, this thesis proposes an innovative design paradigm structured about a cinematic syntax & three SDEVS: frames // + links __ + brackets [ ]. A matrix of applications [MAPPS] materializes in 81 scenes: erstwhile-assembled, now-dispersed fragments articulated as “event containers” [ECS] for an architectured polycentric system [POLYSYS]. The POLYSYS, Space.City, a Seattle Web-based art & architecture network, undergoes condition_al applications that reinforce a fragmentary – as opposed to totalizing – narrative through cinematic optics [OPTS]. The structuralist [project] has at least two dimensions: physical & virtual. The method of constructing the POLYSYS is based on a reversal from a “gestaltic” approach – one that gives the impression that the whole supersedes its parts – to an “anti-gestaltic” one – explicitly oscillating between dispersion & assembly. This shift results in multiple readings for Space.City, advancing the “matter of fragmentation” on a theoretical level through a language both visual & metatextual [MTXT] thus drawing inspiration from various media: cinema, videotexts, Internet, art.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kanekar, Aarati.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: fragmentation; seattle; cinema; system; syntax; optics
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ANDREWS, ABBY S.
Persistent Variation: An Architectural Response to the Human Experience.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2008, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Placing the human experience of space at the center of design is inherently problematic. How does an architect begin to respond to something intangible, varied, and unpredictable? Phenomenology theory has established a progression of human experience that begins with image: image connects to memory, memory is linked to perception, which then influences the construct through which one views the world. This theory provides an opportunity for the architect to engage through light. In this thesis, light is situated inside of the concept of change to address the progression of the human experience in an architectural response. Change, understood as persistent variation, is not a singular event. It comes in the form of either a repeated cycle or it brings a new result each time. This definition is used to develop a physical network that facilitates communication and the flow of information about job opportunities to serve the migrant population.
Advisors/Committee Members: Sansalone, Vincent.
Subjects: Architecture; Design
Keywords: Light: agricultural migrant laborers; the human experience
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Arend, John.
Preserving Progress: An Adaptive Reuse of the Moraine Assembly Plant.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2010, University of Cincinnati
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▼ This thesis explores how adaptive reuse can be applied to the development of an abandoned industrial site in Moraine, Ohio. General Motors (GM) recently closed its Moraine Assembly plant south of Dayton, Ohio on December 23, 2008. The plant’s plot covers 300-acres and, at one time, employed 5,000 workers. Its loss leaves the city, a suburb of Dayton, without one of its major job sources and a large abandoned industrial site. In 1917, a structure intended to house the manufacturing operations of DELCO (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company) was built in Moraine, OH. Upon completion, the building was purchased by the Dayton Wright Airplane Company. In 1926, the building was converted into a manufacturing plant for General Motors’ Frigidaire division. The plant was expanded in 1950, and remained in use by Frigidaire until 1979 when General Motors sold the division. The plant was then renovated and retooled to become a truck and SUV manufacturing plant for General motors in 1981. The plant became one of the most productive truck and SUV plants for General Motors, but declining sales forced the company to shut down the plant in 2008. Can the history of change and evolution inherent on the Moraine Assembly site inform us, today, how to approach its future? Elements existing on the site can be reused to create a city center, including business incubators, for the community. These reused elements act as a visual reminder to the community’s history, while also serving to support its present and future.
Advisors/Committee Members: Elleh, Nnamdi.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Moraine; Frigidaire; Moraine Assembly; Plant; Assembly Plant; Dayton; Moraine Assembly Plant
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ARNOLD, ERIN RUTH.
TIME, SEQUENCE, COMPOSITION, AND THE SENSORY EXPERIENCE: THE PARALLEL SPIRIT OF MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2006, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Time, sequence, composition, and the sensory experience are common elements used in the creation of both music and architecture. To support the claim that the two art forms stem from the same spirit, the incorporation and similar treatment of common temporal aspects are analyzed in both written form and are demonstrated through design. Specific focus will be placed on the ideas of: sequence and composition as they pertain to the communication of an idea, both measurable and phenomenological definitions of time, and sensory experiences as they relate to understanding. Specifically, the cannons of the Suzuki Method, Sonata Form, Fibonacci Sequence, and Serialism are articulated in the design of the music education center. Ultimately, this study will develop the notion that architecture can become more experientially enriched by studying the perspective music has on these common features.
Advisors/Committee Members: Chatterjee, Jay.
Subjects: Music; Architecture
Keywords: music architecture; spirit; music education center; time; sequence; composition; sensory experience; fibonacci; serialism; suzuki; aba form; sonata form
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ARORA, PRIYA.
BURNET AVENUE, AVONDALE NEIGHBORHOOD CINCINNATI, OHIO REVITALIZATION STRATEGY.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2007, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Avondale, one of the 52 neighborhoods of Cincinnati, is an African-American community. It is one of six Uptown neighborhoods that make up Cincinnati’s “second downtown” and is its fourth largest neighborhood with 18,706 residents. At one time it was a thriving, and culturally rich area with a multitude of retailing choices, but it has suffered from disinvestment and social degradation especially since the riots of 1970s. Today, nearly 45 percent of violent crime in Uptown is in the Avondale community , clustered in just a few areas around Reading Road and Burnet Avenue. Avondale is characterized by abandoned and underutilized buildings, vacant lots and numerous unclaimed urban spaces. The thesis study involves the implementation of the principles of the Smart Growth movement. The aim is to redevelop Burnet Avenue into an integrated district that is safe, attractive and serves the needs of its residents, new businesses and existing nearby institutions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Simmons, Gordon.
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BACK, JOHN E. JR.
ENGAGEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE: PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITERIA FOR USE IN THE EVERYDAY.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2005, University of Cincinnati
► Meaning in architecture—of one form or another—is arguably what most architects intend…
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▼ Meaning in architecture—of one form or another—is arguably what most architects intend to produce in their work. However, as William Hubbard points out in Complicity and Conviction: Steps Toward an Architecture of Convention, much of what architects deem meaningful in design fails to reach the lay person. A dichotomy exists between what the architect and the lay person value in architecture. Because architects do not attempt to find value beyond this dichotomy, it is reinforced and the majority of buildings constructed today lack meaningful design. In a world of increasing dependence on consultants, where the role of the architect is continually diminished, a lack of value in design not only poses a problem for the profession, but makes the everyday world less rich. The specific meanings that each person takes from a building are different and impossible to predict with much accuracy. An architecture that is designed to engage people of all walks of life however, provides the opportunity for finding meaning. But how does an architect design to engage people? An “architecture of reality” focuses on the phenomenological experiences people have in the built environment. When buildings center on this experience and enhance it, people become more aware of their surroundings and are more engaged. This thesis proposes that by designing an architecture of reality, architecture will be more valuable to people. The aim of this thesis is to propose criteria, based on how people experience buildings, which can be used to design any type of architecture. These criteria which when experienced lead to a sense of clarity and awareness in the everyday, are adapted from theoretical texts and built work. This awareness is the key to an engaging architecture—not only monumental architecture, but to less prestigious building types. Appeal in the everyday will translate into an inherent value in design, and help the profession of architecture to gain a more significant role in the lives of many.
Advisors/Committee Members: Simmons, Gordon.
Keywords: Architecture; Engagement; Everyday; Phenomenology; Grocery Store; Supermarket; Drive-Thru; Reality; Presence; Significance; Materiality; Emptiness; Benedikt; Lefebvre; Heidegger
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BAKER, BRIAN J.
AMERICAN SPORT IN THE CITY: THE MAKING OF AN URBAN PLACE.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2004, University of Cincinnati
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▼ A sports stadium is essentially a huge theater for the presentation of heroic feats. The combination of dramatic function and monumental scale can result in powerful civic architecture. Stadia are one of the great historic building types, representing some of the very earliest works of architecture (Greek stadia), some of the most pivotal (Roman amphitheaters and thermae), and some of the most beautiful (from the Colosseum in Rome to the Olympic Park in Munich). Unfortunately, few stadia have become functional civic monuments in our culture, but rather cold, uncomfortable places, often sitting empty and unused, in sharp contrast with the brief periods of extreme congestion on game days. The best stadia provide a comfortable and safe place for entertainment, but even these stadia often fall short of becoming integral and functional members of their community. There are three significant parts to this thesis: (1) what the stadium as a focus for sports signifies to a city or region, (2) the importance of sports as a representation or image of a city and within a city, and (3) how stadium sites can be invigorated to create an active place within the urban landscape. These three parts can be broken down more simply as stating that the sports stadium should be a signifier of civic pride, civic identity, and civic functionality. Stadia by nature exhibit aspects of civic pride and civic identity simply through society’s seeming obsession with sports, yet many fall short of becoming functional pieces of the urban fabric. In order to create a truly urban sports facility, it is imperative that stadia not only create a symbol of civic pride and civic identity, but also become a functional component of the urban fabric through the development of ancillary programs.
Advisors/Committee Members: Niland, David.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: sports stadium; urban place; urban functionality; stadium functionality
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Barker, Brian.
Ecological Mediation: Dialectics of Inside and Outside.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2010, University of Cincinnati
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▼ This thesis examines the relationship of humans to their surrounding environment by investigating architecture’s ability to mediate between the extremes of outside and inside. Poetic and functional responsibilities of architecture are emphasized in a brief chronology of how the role of the tectonic building elements, which evolved from a need to protect the hearth, changed to being used to contain a manufactured environment. A design process that emphasizes a reliance on natural processes is used to test the assertion that architectural richness and environmental diversity in the human experience can be captured through the implementation of transitional spaces that exist in an expanded border between the extremes of inside and outside.
Advisors/Committee Members: Williamson, Rebecca.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: human ecology; mediation; inside outside; function
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Barnes, Catherine L.
Preserving Industrial Heritage A Methodology for the Reuse of Industrial Buildings and Campuses.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2010, University of Cincinnati
► Deserted late 19th and early 20th century industrial buildings dot the United…
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▼ Deserted late 19th and early 20th century industrial buildings dot the United States landscape. Abandoned due to changes in industrial production, distribution, and subsequent urban flight, these discarded structures possess a heritage that can connect present day communities to the past and future. Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist, Robert Penn Warren expressed, “History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.” Because of this potential, these industrial buildings have an inherent value that will increase when a building is preserved. The search for appropriate new uses for these large, complex structures is a difficult task. For this thesis a value matrix was developed based upon Alois Riegl’s Modern Cult of Monuments essay. The value matrix gives an evaluation method for precedent studies and to evaluate future uses on abandoned structures. After a new use or interpretation is discovered for the site, the search for a new syntax begins. This new syntax will be based on the rigors set by the existing structure to base new patterns and design work to further connect the new use to the history of the site.
Advisors/Committee Members: Riorden, Elizabeth.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: adaptive reuse; industrial heritage; Alois Riegl
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BARR, DAVID F.
DATA ARTICULATION.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2007, University of Cincinnati
► The onset of the digital revolution has forever altered society and architecture.…
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▼ The onset of the digital revolution has forever altered society and architecture. This thesis addresses contemporary architectural practices as they are being radically reorganized through the use of digital technologies. The goal of this thesis is to represent a unified system of data analysis in which the design scheme exists within a constant feedback loop with both the programmatic and spatial requirements. This produces an architecture that can be read literally as a differential system in which the end building type is not directly created by, but rather, evolved from dynamic data systems; emergence. Inherent to this is a set of rules that have some method of feedback, self-reference, and modes of failure and success. In this way the overall building forms will be explorations into how a set number of rules will generate vastly different building conditions based upon local site and environmental conditions.
Advisors/Committee Members: McInturf, Michael.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Emergence; Digital Architecture; Algorithmic Architecture
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Barry, Kristin Marie.
The New Archaeological Museum: Reuniting Place and Artifact.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2008, University of Cincinnati
► Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation,…
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▼ Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a recent change in education trends has led to a wider audience attending many international archaeological sites. An innovation in museum typology is needed to help tourists interpret the artifacts that been found at the site in a contextual manner. Through a study of literature by experts such as Victoria Newhouse, Stephen Wells, and other authors, and by analyzing successful interpretive center projects, I have developed a document outlining the reasons for on-site interpretive centers and their functions and used this material in a case study at the site of ancient Troy. My study produced a research document regarding museology and design strategy for the physical building, and will be applicable to any new construction on a sensitive site. I hope to establish a precedent that sites can use when adapting to this new type of visitors.
Advisors/Committee Members: Riorden, Elizabeth.
Subjects: Ancient civilizations; Archaeology; Architecture; Art education; Classical studies
Keywords: museum; design; museology; interpretive center; archaeology; Ancient Troy; Troy
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BAUSER, PAUL J.
HIGH ASPIRATIONS: THE SKYSCRAPER AS A CORPORATE ICON.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2005, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Driven to gain increasing market shares, corporations are compelled to formulate distinct public imagery. Since the advent of the high-rise typology the skyscraper has provided an architectural means to this end. The end of the 19th century saw development of the corporate headquarters building as the new power structure, conveying images of opulence and wealth through increasingly tall towers. Today, the speed and pace of our contemporary, media culture has rendered architecture a slow and antiquated mode of communication. Our lives are saturated with fast-paced, adaptable, graphic, imagery. Buildings cannot keep pace. Architecture lags behind current culture; its ideas outdated before ground is broken. The question arises, what will become the enduring symbol of the corporation? Imagery, and the creation of a pictorial language have long been driving forces of communication enterprises. Since the establishment of the Christian church, icons have conveyed a greater depth of meaning. As the manifestation and condensation of an array of ideas and principles into a single, recognizable object, icons became powerful tools of influence and control, most recently through the corporate application of branding. This corporate persona is a powerful construct, one to be vigilantly maintained, but as high-rise building can no longer keep pace with evolving corporate imagery, designing a purely iconographic image of the corporate headquarters tower is no longer a valid architectural response. Rather, imagery should be found rather than sought. This thesis seeks to establish a 21st century architectural icon for Western and Southern Financial Group by allowing the pictorial, to result from objectivity. Rather than designing an image for the corporation, a contrived process likely to prove ineffective, the project aims to promote the corporation through an architecture that is responsive to specific scales of influence: sustainability, visibility, connectivity, and employability. This set of ideals formulates specific design parameters capable of generating distinctive imagery that can be endowed with meaning over time. In allowing image to result from these objective design processes, the tower becomes a collector rather than a generator of meaning; an adaptable construct capable of reinterpretation, promising longevity over obsolescence; an icon.
Advisors/Committee Members: McIntruf, Michael.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Corporation; High-rise; Skyscraper; Icon; Iconography; Tower; Urban; Identity; Branding; Image; Company; Architecture; Structure
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BAXTER, TODD A.
META-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE: THINKING BEYOND THE BOX.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2007, University of Cincinnati
► Scientific theory has been the progenitor of countless architectural works throughout the…
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▼ Scientific theory has been the progenitor of countless architectural works throughout the course of history. Advances in science, however, generally take a generation or two to become part of the architectural mainstream. Science relies on the architectural avant-garde for its induction into the realm of theory and practice. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, architects have no shortage of “new” scientific theory with which to experiment in the search for inspired architecture. This thesis will apply, metaphorically, principles of quantum physics, superposition and emergence as a palimpsest that denotes the interaction of generative forces related to site, program and geometry. The potential of these theoretical propositions as generators of form will concentrate on the iterative process of the observation of potentialities or eigenstates. The application of quantum/emergent principles, applied to a transit-oriented development in Loveland, Ohio, will be evaluated to determine the goodness of fit for the various eigenstates.
Advisors/Committee Members: Simmons, Gordon.
Keywords: Quantum Architecture; Superposition; Duality
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BEDEL, BANU.
REVEALING GORDION: A CASE OF VIRTUAL HERITAGE INTERPRETATION.
Degree: MS ARCH, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2006, University of Cincinnati
► Despite its significance in history and popular imagination, the city of Gordion…
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▼ Despite its significance in history and popular imagination, the city of Gordion today offers very little to be seen. The level of preservation and restricted access to the site obscure the city. Digital reconstruction of the site can compensate for these shortcomings and help non-experts see the architecture of the site as studied and imagined by the experts. This study deals with how the possibilities of digital modeling can be exploited in order to present a richer and more accurate picture of Gordion. Besides detailed and realistic images of a site, digital visualization can display how these images were generated from factual evidence and its interpretation. Cinema offers the model for this work in telling complex yet comprehensible stories by audio-visual means.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hancock, John.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Digital reconstruction, Gordion, Cinema History, Cinematography, Virtual Archaeology
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Beelman, Amanda M.
Healthy Habitats: The Role of Architecture in the Human Relationship with Nature .
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2005, University of Cincinnati
► As cultural values change and an increasing number of people live in…
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▼ As cultural values change and an increasing number of people live in urban areas, we find ourselves leading lives that our separate from nature. Separation from nature can be detrimental to our physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health. The thesis seeks to demonstrate how the human relationship with nature has changed in four categories of study – religion, science and technology, philosophy, and architecture and cities – and how this relationship remains today. After establishing that a problem exists, the thesis reveals a proposal for change: the use of architecture to reestablish and strengthen the connection between humans and nature. Through the implementation of a number of design methods – including natural building materials, integrated green space, daylighting, natural ventilation, and views to nature – architects and designers can make nature a part of our daily lives. We can design for sensory encounters with nature in the buildings in which we live, work, and play. The proposed project that illustrates the thesis is a college dormitory in downtown Chicago.
Advisors/Committee Members: Burnham, Robert.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: nature; daylighting; green space; man and nature; natural materials; architecture and nature
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Beer, Allison Emma.
A Residential College: A Living Complex for DAAP Students at the University of Cincinnati.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2006, University of Cincinnati
► In recent years, university spending on housing has experienced huge growth, because…
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▼ In recent years, university spending on housing has experienced huge growth, because universities have begun placing a new importance on student housing, considering it to be an important part of the “total university experience.” Student housing holds enormous potential to contribute to the overall goals of a university, as well as to the development of students by providing opportunities in which living, learning and socializing happen simultaneously. The residential college system infuses social and educational opportunities into campus housing by including social spaces and opportunities for students to interact with faculty in a more intimate residential setting. This thesis will investigate how the ideas of the residential college system can be translated into design principles and strategies in order to enhance the way in which student housing contributes to development of students and the goals of the university.
Advisors/Committee Members: Simmons, Gordon.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: student housing; residential college; residential architecture; art student housing; multi-unit housing
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Benkert, Michael.
Architect as Developer: A Model for Triple Top Line Development.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2010, University of Cincinnati
► Triple top line development is a methodology for developing buildings that are…
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▼ Triple top line development is a methodology for developing buildings that are not only economic assets, but environmental and social assets,with the understanding that in doing so, there will be a spillover effect among concentrations, resulting in added benefits for each. Architects are trained and educated to design buildings in this manner, but lack the necessary interests and influence to bring triple top line developments to fruition. Architects, in their traditional roles, do not produce buildings; rather they provide a service for developers and owners who do. The developers controlling project financing are legally and ethically entitled to the ultimate design authority, and their interests are often in direct conflict with those of the architects they hire. Developers are strictly concerned with a building’s economic performance and will strike down design proposals which do not provide an immediate financial return. This is unfortunate, because ecological and social equity considerations have the potential to not only enhance the economic viability of projects, but create more pleasing environments in the process. These oversights open doors for Architect-Developers to develop their own triple top line projects, regain the ultimate design authority, and profit from the added value their designs bring to buildings and communities.
Advisors/Committee Members: Riorden, Elizabeth.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: architect as developer; development; triple top line; findlay market; over-the-rhine; adaptive reuse
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BENTON, W. RICHARD.
ENERGY PERFORMANCE DESIGN ARCHITECTURE: A FACTORY IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2005, University of Cincinnati
► The burning of fossil fuels to produce energy has degraded the environment…
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▼ The burning of fossil fuels to produce energy has degraded the environment and adversely affected human health. In order to control and prevent further environmental damage, it is necessary to reduce the fossil fuel consumption associated with energy generation. Architecture may play a large role in this. Architects can design buildings which consume less energy than conventional structures. This is the area of energy performance design. Energy performance design has long been known for heating, cooling, and lighting purposes but was pushed aside as fossil fuel costs decreased resulting in cheap energy sources. Only now are we discovering the impacts of our intense use of fossil fuels. Also, rising energy costs have once again made energy performance design an economically viable solution to our space conditioning needs. Carefully designing heating, cooling, and lighting systems to operate without the need for energy generated from fossil fuel sources can sufficiently lower the energy needs of a building. Even designing these systems based on fundamentals for their use can produce energy savings. Further analysis of using these systems will result in optimized energy performance and significantly reduce fossil fuel consumption as a result.
Advisors/Committee Members: Burnham, Robert.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: sustainability, energy performance, passive conditioning, passive heating, passive cooling, natural lighting, daylighting, passive ventilation, renewable energy technology, sustainbale technology
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BIRCK, ADAM R.
A UNIVERSALLY SACRED PLACE FOR THE LIVING TO REFLECT ON THE DEAD: BEECH GROVE CEMETERY.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2006, University of Cincinnati
► There is a need for a universally sacred place in which culturally…
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▼ There is a need for a universally sacred place in which culturally diverse groups feel comfortable grieving together. In order to understand how to create universal experiences through architecture, research will be conducted in the area of phenomenology. Sacred architecture utilizes specific spatial characteristics. Further literature research into the process of dying and grieving will inform design strategies. Investigation in the form of precedent analysis will analyze places that are sacred and appropriate for mourning. The conjecture is that a poetic architectural language can be developed into a sacred place where an entire community can grieve. A building design is produced on a specific site, presented in models and drawings, and described in a critical essay. The goal of this project is to produce a source for those interested in universally sacred design.
Advisors/Committee Members: Simmons, Gordon.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Sacred; Death; Universal; Spiritual; Phenomenology; Grief
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Bissaillon, Joseph A.
transformation: adaptive reuse as a response to a disposable society.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2008, University of Cincinnati
► There is an emerging pattern present in today's social community: a disposable…
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▼ There is an emerging pattern present in today's social community: a disposable society. Architecture today suffers from a loss of meaning while linear production and planned obsolescence now prevail. Today's society has no option other than that of change; the carbon footprint must be given added importance by reducing, recycling and reusing. Abandoned buildings, often contaminated, and in different states of disrepair are both challenges and resources and can be transformed through adaptive reuse. Adaptive reuse on a brownfield site preserves a piece a history, restores polluted land, and contributes to a sustainable development pattern. A plan for adaptive reuse of the Peters Cartridge Factory can reinvigorate the visually dominating structure while strengthening its connection to the surrounding community and bring back respect to not only the land that it sits on, but also the land and people that it directly impacts.
Advisors/Committee Members: McInturf, Michael.
Subjects: Architecture
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Bornhorst, Charlotte Sophie.
Fragments of Time: Politics of Memory in Contemporary Berlin.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2009, University of Cincinnati
► After 17 years of heated debate, the German government decided in 2003…
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▼ After 17 years of heated debate, the German government decided in 2003 to demolish the former Palace of the Republic, once the site of the first free elections and German reunification. This heavily contested site was previously occupied by the baroque City Palace, which is now the focal point of the “Humboldt Forum” competition aiming to create a world cultural museum in a reconstructed shell of the palace. The heavy symbolism, connection to identity, and historical past factor into the difficulty of creating a new structure with an appropriate program. It is simply not enough to reconstruct an old baroque palace and thus use preservation as an act of forgetting historical events and structures that once occupied the site. Preservation must use a new and inclusive approach to address the complexity of this urban site in the heart of Berlin and thus give future generations the ability to witness structures from the past that help shape their future.
Advisors/Committee Members: Riorden, Elizabeth.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Berlin; Palace of the Republic; Schlossplatz; Humboldt Forum
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BOTHIREDDY, HARITHA.
SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC ROLE OF ORNAMENT IN ARCHITECTURE.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2007, University of Cincinnati
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▼ The investigation on the shift in the role of ornament as a semantic and syntactic element in architecture focuses mainly on design processes of renowned architects Carlo Scarpa and Peter Eisenman. By critically analyzing the works of these two architects based on their treatment of ornament in the Brion Tomb and Aronoff Center for Art and Design respectively, this thesis will aim at defining the function of ornament based on the notion of ‘Re-membering’ and the importance of memory in representing architectural elements metaphorically. Exploration of these design processes will be developed on a site located at the intersection of Gilbert and William Taft Avenue in Cincinnati in which only a fragment of the demolished First Presbyterian church of Walnut Hills remains. Two continuous sites located in front of the church will be taken for the purposes of this study. Due to the church’s historical ties with the Lane Seminary, Underground Railroad and Harriet Beecher Stowe, a design of a park with follies will be developed in the first site that acts as a transition space linking the design of an auditorium building with a library located in the second site. The design will attempt to compare the methods used by Scarpa and Eisenman for creating form and ornament, as well as explore the relation of ornament to remembering.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bible, George Thomas.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: role of ornament; semantic and syntactic element; Carlo Scarpa; Brion Tomb; Aronoff Center for Art and Design; Peter Eisenman; Re-membering
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Brady, Conor.
Ugly Duckling; A Proposal for the Adaptive Reuse of a Machine Factory.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2010, University of Cincinnati
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▼ There are an increasing number of abandoned industrial sites sitting vacant across the country. These industrial sites occupy valuable real estate, are often heavily contaminated with chemicals that leach into water tables, and can be derelict and unsafe due lack of maintenance. In addition to this, they create voids in the urban fabric that impede development and regeneration around them. Industrial buildings serve an important role in urban life as the former engines of production and economic centers of communities, but when their doors are shut, they are left to decay. They are not preserved because they lack the historical and symbolic significance that society requires to retain them. They must be reused instead, and in a manner that provides value to the urban fabric and communities around them. This thesis investigates formal, spatial and programmatic strategies for re-use and development, derived from a survey of extant and planned reuse projects, that allow abandoned industrial buildings to once again be assets in our built environment.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kucker, Patricia.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: Adaptive Reuse; Metal Arts; Insertion; Northside; Industrial Buildings; Landscape Reuse
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BRAKEFIELD, KATHLEEN HEATHER.
PROMOTING COMMUNITY: AN ARTISTS' RESIDENCE.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2005, University of Cincinnati
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▼ An investigation into affordable housing could disclose a set of considerations to which architecture can respond as the promotion of community. The goal of this thesis is to better understand, as a designer, the elements that foster a community—referencing utopian ideals and architectural precedents—in order incorporate these ideologies in the design of a vertical apartment building, for artists, on Manhattan Island in New York City. This study will show that various types of precedents, architectural and theoretical, may be able to point to clues that will inform the design of an affordable apartment building for artists that promote a sense of community.
Advisors/Committee Members: Greinacher, Udo.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: community, neighborhood, utopia, modernism, affordable housing, artists
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Brasier, Karen.
Living with Art: Framing the Everyday.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2010, University of Cincinnati
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▼ This thesis is a meditation investigating the ways that domestic display tactics permeate the space of the encyclopedic art museum in ways that affect its framing of art. The integration of increasingly hybrid and elusive contemporary art into a comprehensive museum structure has resulted in the spectacle of the temporary exhibition, "museum fatigue" caused by the enormity of the encyclopedic collection, and a problem of access to the many objects that live in a typical museum's storage. My study proposes to overlay art spaces with the processes and patterns of everyday American life, looking to the structures of display evident in contemporary domestic environments for opportunity to make the art of our times more comfortable and accessible physically and intellectually. A designed space, as a prototypical neighborhood branch location is proposed for two recent developments affecting the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum: a donation of a collection of contemporary craft and a new member group devoted to contemporary art. Parallel to the writing in this document is a creative investigation, in which I’ve made a series of objects that pursue the architectural design by splicing typical and familiar architectural representations, such as a site model, with everyday domestic objects, such as a coffee table. This work questions the hierarchy in which the art museum’s contents are exhibited within, while reorganizing the typical experiences of architectural representations.
Advisors/Committee Members: Daiello, Vicki.
Subjects: Architecture
Keywords: domestic display; visible storage; art museum; the everyday
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Brown, Abigail R.
Reframing the Everyday: Negotiating the Multiple Lives of the Ordinary.
Degree: M. Arch., Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of), 2009, University of Cincinnati
► Andy Warhol once predicted that in the future “all department stores will…
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▼ Andy Warhol once predicted that in the future “all department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores.” While these building types are not yet synonymous, many new cultural projects accept the addition of commerce without reservation. Critics have denounced these increasingly close ties between cultural institutions and consumption in recent years; however, the critical discourse gives little thought to the inherent meaning and multiple narratives that reside in everyday objects. Rather than repress the ties between cultural institutions and consumer culture, this thesis explores their common histories. In addition, it reveals the challenges inherent in interpreting and displaying artifacts of everyday life. Similar to everyday objects, buildings have multiple lives that enact over time as uses, occupants, context, and interpretations change. The role of the museum curator resembles the architect, as both typically interpret and privilege one of these lives over others. This thesis explores the methods by which the architect interprets the ordinary. It uses an existing urban condition to question the approach to a building that is neither precious enough to preserve nor decrepit enough to destroy. How does the architect negotiate between the multiple histories of the building and the current needs of the community? At what point does the architect stop designing and allow new occupants to reappropriate the building and enact their own narratives within the existing frame?
Advisors/Committee Members: Williamson, Rebecca.
Subjects: Architecture; Museums
Keywords: museums; curators; historic preservation; Washington, D.C.; adaptive reuse; commerce; museum display; exhibition design; material culture
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