UMD Theses and Dissertations

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    Enclosure Without Containment: Treatment Center For At Risk Children
    (2016) Do, Thuy; Ambrose, Michael; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Suicide in young children seem to occur more frequently now than ever before. Children as young as five years old have been admitted to the intense patient Behavioral Health facilities. It is important that these enclosed facilities are comfortable for these children while they are under analysis and treatment. The difficulty in term of design for these facilities that they are particularly secluded and closed-off to the public for the protection of the children. However, if the design is successful, it will help to heal the children. This thesis will analyze on three issues with Behavioral Health facilities. The first problem is the design of Behavioral Health centers, which creates a feeling of enclosure and imprisonment. The second issue is the traditional architecture vernacular of these facilities. They are not well thought-out with the interest of the children. The third issue is the stigma that is attach to Behavioral Health centers. Society overlooks and stereotypes these children. These issues can be resolved through architecture. • Architecture can translate nature and natural elements into spatial experiences of reflection. • Architecture can affect mental health through space, form, function, light, and materials. • Architecture can provide an aesthetic that can sway or influence negative social stigmas and images that society holds on behavioral centers. • Architecture can provide defined enclosure without restrained containment while simultaneously offering protection. This thesis will explore these theories and apply them to the design of the children residential treatment facility in the Cheverly neighborhood in Prince George’s County, Maryland where at risk children can come together for support, to be treated, and become part of the community.
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    Archeological Research Center in Gözlükule, Tarsus, Turkey
    (2011) Arikoglu, Sahin; Rockcastle, Garth C; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The goal of my Thesis Project is to design an Archeological Research Center located in the Historic City of Tarsus which is located in southern Turkey. This design exercise will try to combine and layer the archeological research activity above the actual existing excavation site of Gözlükule (An archeological mound located in Tarsus). The logic being that the research spaces above will become a "protective shell" for what is being unearthed and displayed below. I have chosen The City of Tarsus as the site for the Archeological Research Center for the following reasons: - Modern City of Tarsus literally sits on top of the ancient Roman and Biblical City of St.Paul which needs to be excavated and preserved as a world historic site. - Thesis site is the Gözlükule Mound that is situated above the city of Tarsus. The Mound is an archeological site with ongoing excavation. - Recently Tarsus has gained international importance as a pilgrimage location for Christian tourists. 1 - Tarsus American College "TAC" is located adjacent to the site and is an important educational center in Turkey that will support and benefit from archeological research conducted adjacent to its campus. - My thesis project will be to develop a model and guidelines for protecting, preserving and displaying the archeological remains excavated at the site. - By keeping and preserving archeological findings at the site of their excavation, I will be making a counter argument for displacing and displaying them at other locations. - My goal for designing a center for archeological research in Tarsus will be to utilize its building form to focus and organize the existing urban pattern adjacent to the site by creating visual and physical connections between fields.