Architecture Theses and Dissertations
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Item Interwoven Communities: Reconnecting the Generations Through Forgotten Suburban Landscapes(2021) Dayao, Philip; Akinsade, Olumide; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The focus of this thesis looks to explore the use of dying shopping malls as a vehicle for creating multigenerational placemaking.Item Intervening in place: A response to evolving urban coastlines.(2013) Joerdens, Eric Guest; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The beginning of the Anthropocene signals awareness of human's ecological impact on the planet. With emerging technology, knowledge, and theory how can we re-design our built environment to align with ecological parameters? This thesis studies how architecture meets the needs of humans while honoring a place's environment. Through studying sea-level rise and urban areas, a hypothetical program emerges. A new institution is form around the Chesapeake Bay's rising seas and loss of heritage. A new museum of archaeology is sited in Annapolis, Maryland. Around Ego Alley ideas of place-making and regeneration are examined. The place formed around the institution is intended to adapt and utilize rising waters, while attempting to mitigate its' own greenhouse gas emissions.Item Sustainable Placemaking: Restoring the Vitality of Underutilized Infrastructure(2013) Taylor, Michael David; Bovill, Carl; Simon, Madlen; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)A city experiences natural manipulation through time as the demographics, economy, technology, and industry evolve. As a result, formally prominent sites and buildings become neglected. This thesis explores a model of sustainable placemaking that adaptively reuses currently underutilized infrastructure to sponsor a restored definition of place for a community. I will illustrate how a small town has the opportunity to inform the larger society that living in a self-sustaining localized environment is achievable. The model of sustainable placemaking is illustrated through a case study in Frederick, Maryland. This historically sensitive, yet progressive, city offers exemplary circumstances of how a modest sized town, attentive to preserving its historical heritage, can incorporate sustainability. My study focuses on a blighted area, adjacent to a newly developed pedestrian creek front, to demonstrate how the City of Frederick can revitalize its sense of place with the sustainable redevelopment of existing underutilized infrastructure.