Theses and Dissertations from UMD
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Item SAFE SPACE: Architectural Sequence as a Healing Experience(2018) Babu, Lonna; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Human trafficking is the second largest crime in the world with an estimated 4.5 million people trapped in forced sexual exploitation today. The goal of this thesis is to explore a new paradigm for the design a trauma rehabilitation shelter for victims of sex trafficking. It aims to further develop the relationship between the built environment and the healing process for trauma-specific victims, to design space as a part of the recovery and not just a place for it. As victims of a sexual crime, this thesis also explores a way to de-stigmatize girls from others and themselves by using site-specific advantages to foster interaction between girls and the public. From understanding the victim experience and how victims react to their surroundings this thesis aims to design for survivors by re-orienting their trauma experience into a “new normal.”Item The Middle Branch Boathouse: [Re]Bridging Water, Sport & Community(2012) Pless, Katlin Meredith; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Of all sports, rowing is one of the most dynamic, yet elegant, while simultaneously highly skilled and technical. Dependent upon a rare form of calculated synchronization, the ideas of collaboration and dedication are indispensable. This thesis is interested in the process of creating architecture as an expression of the sport, investigating collaboration, reacting to the movement of the body and developing a method of expressing of the experience of rowing. It addresses the issues of connecting the boathouse to the surrounding area, particularly its waterfront condition, while making the building a community destination. Similarly, the boathouse must address the relationship of the body to the waterfront, both through the movements of the sport, and thought the relationship between the spectator and participant. It has the power to help in the revitalization the Middle Branch Park, reigniting the city's interest in this potential recreational oasis. This thesis strives to carry aspects of the sport: movement, ritual, sequence, rhythm, cadence and balance and manifest them into built form, to create a spirited, active and moving experience for all users.Item Baltimore Community Theatre Project: Activating neighborhoods through exposure to process of production(2008) Soraruf, Louis Peter; Noonan, Peter; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Mount Vernon neighborhood in Baltimore, MD is well known for its housing of schools and businesses for the arts. On the western edge of this vibrant neighborhood lies a social and cultural barrier that breaks up the tightly knit fabric of the city. There exists a node along this edge where six neighborhoods as well as the city's road grid come to a physical and socioeconomic confluence. This thesis contends that by involving a surrounding community in the process of theatrical production, there can be a nurturing of interest and exposure to the diverse skills and practices that go into process of performance. Exposing the process makes the final production more interesting in that this new model for theatrical performance challenges the performers by leaving them more exposed to the surrounding community while at the same time building a reciprocal bond of learning and cultural understanding.