School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
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Item ENMENDAR EL ZOCALO: AMENDING THE PLINTH(2021) Belmonte, Jocelyn Elizabeth; Burke, Juan L; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)A community with the lacks school, resources, and food supplies creates a difficult living situation. General Francisco Paz, a neighborhood located in the central part of the state of Veracruz, Mexico is dealing with these conditions. This neighborhood of 886 individuals contains only and elementary school for education. For students to receive further education, a 40-minute walk South will get the student to the nearest middle or high school. Due to the high rate of drop out students and unfinished education, illiteracy within the town is rising. This thesis will explore a design for a middle and high school, to provide the students the education needed to care, grow, and sustain agricultural land. Vernacular architecture and sustainability for the neighborhoods of General Francisco Paz and General Alatriste for the students who are soon to be tending for this land. This project is in hope of improving the quality of education and sources in opposition of current conditions to motivate families towards wanting to create and expand their futures and families within this community.Item Chronic Inundation: Developing An Outdoor Education Center For Threatened Communities(2020) Duan, Amy Tzu-Yu; May, Lindsey; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Effects of climate change, like sea-level rise, extreme weather, and chronic inundation are damaging historic cultural resources and landscapes along the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Maryland’s Eastern Shore is highly susceptible to these effects due to its naturally low-lying topography and its abundance of historic towns and heritage resources. Historic coastal communities are struggling to address the vulnerability of their historic assets due to the fragility of the resources and current preservation methods. This evolving landscape is not only reshaping the way people live but how tangible heritage is being preserved for the community, the region’s identity, and future generations. Adaptation of historic communities to climate change is more urgent than ever as the severity of climate pollution projections increases with every climate pollution report and analysis. This thesis aims to explore structural resiliency techniques and public education and awareness strategies to protect Maryland’s historic and cultural resources, specifically focusing on chronic inundation. It will examine Cambridge, Maryland, a historic coastal city on the Eastern shore, to develop an outdoor education center to service the region and support resiliency efforts and exploration.Item Dancing Architecture: A Formal Approach to Translating Movement and Dance(2017) Kim, Karen; Ambrose, Michael A; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Dance is an outlet that teaches empathy and inspires people to communicate their stories through body movement. Architecture has the same ability to tell stories. I also contend that architecture made of representational narrative in the use of metaphorical forms and tectonics has the ability to teach and communicate. I believe there is a need for architecture to be more open and educational. Methods and lessons of dance will be applied embodied in ways to induce learning to my architectural thesis. Precedents emphasizing graphic representations of dance movements will support the idea of instructive design. This investigation will entail the work of Étienne-Jules Marey, pioneer of using graphical techniques to depict sequential movement of the human body, and the work of Eadweard Muybridge, an innovator of photographic studies of motion. The work of my thesis will be to conceive of places for people to congregate, where social and cultural intersections will foster an inspiration for movement or interaction.Item Transitioning Education: Building Opportunities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities(2012) Latini, Caitlin Claire; Kelly, Brian; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)In 1975, the U.S Federal government enacted legislation, Education for All Handicapped Children Act (amended in 1990 to be called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), that granted free and equal access to education for all children regardless of any cognitive or physical disabilities. As a result of this legislation, many students with intellectual disabilities benefited from early intervention and integration into the regular classroom which enabled them to attain greater levels of achievement. As these students are now reaching the post-secondary education level, colleges and universities are creating programs to further advance the level of education available to individuals with disabilities. In order to meet the growing demand, post-secondary schools will need to build facilities that accommodate this increasingly diverse population of students. This thesis imagines an integrated learning environment that will be able to meet the growing, varying needs of those with intellectual disabilities, and in turn, discover an environment that fosters learning for all students, intellectually disabled or not.Item inForm: Didactic Eco-Conscious Architecture(2008) Claudio, Angelo; Williams, Isaac; Architecture; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Architecture has the potential to reflect the cultural values of a society. Conversely, an expressive and didactic architecture can affect cultural value systems. At the most fundamental level, sustainability is about being aware of our place in a larger whole and respecting the interconnectivity all life shares on this planet. Without a cultural value system that supports this worldview, sustainable architecture will eventually reduce into a style or application. This thesis explores the didactic potential of architecture in regards to sustainability. It focuses on the recognition of unique characteristics in the built and natural environment of a place; the building's response to these environmental factors; and how an expressive architecture may teach the inhabitants of the building and local residents of the surrounding neighborhood about their environment. A secondary school in downtown San Francisco is an opportune typology for this exploration. Form may follow function, but can form inform?