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Drawing Through 4 Seasons
(Virginia Tech, 2009-10-07)
This thesis is concerned with architecture and its changes through four seasons.
It is about drawing new images of a building in different seasons. Like trees change their leaves in seasons and like people change their ...
Thresholds in the Urban Environment: Women and Children's Shelter
(Virginia Tech, 2002-09-20)
The premise of this thesis is to explore the transition of spaces through thresholds. This exploration begins with the urban environment and how one transitions through spaces into private spaces. In particular, this ...
The Architecture of the Transformation of Folding and the Design of an Alexandria Law Firm
(Virginia Tech, 2010-07-22)
Understanding architecture through a contemporary context of the transformations of art and technology was the springboard for this thesis. Identifying folding as a basic transformation became the focus for developing an ...
Gathering: a study of public space through an inhabitable bridge in Southwest Washington, D.C.
(Virginia Tech, 1998-06-19)
This study builds on the National Capital Planning Commissionâ s (NCPC) 50 year Master Plan for Washington D.C. It focuses on several of the NCPCâ s five key goals; to build on the legacy of the historic Lâ Enfant and ...
Materials and Imagination: A Building of Fire and Water
(Virginia Tech, 2001-05-31)
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An exploration of the relationship between man and the elements, fire and water, this project futher develops these ideas by way of the imagination. Man's attempt to form further connections with these elements is ...
Interaction and Intervention a case study: 1019 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Virginia
(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-16)
It is a favorite canon of preservation architects that soon 95% of work will deal with an existing construct in some manner. Reasons for this include the public's affinity toward old and historic buildings, and the utter ...
Urban Housing in the Park
(Virginia Tech, 1999-08-19)
The vitality of the city is substantially dependent upon the coexistence of old and new-buildings and people. A lot can be learned from the history and/or the potential of different generations; in the city this exchange ...
Urban Fashion
(Virginia Tech, 1998-07-02)
How can architecture transcend style in the fashion world? My thesis offers experiences for both the public and private realm of the fashion industry. For the public, the opportunity to see and feel the clothes on the ...
Bridging between the Contemporary and the Vernacular architecture
(Virginia Tech, 1998-07-02)
Tuti is an Island at the confluence of the Blue and the White Niles in Khartoum city, the capital of Sudan.
The intention of this thesis is to design a bridge on the blue Nile which links the Contemporary world of Khartoum, ...
An Urban Graduate Center
(Virginia Tech, 1997-06-23)
The Urban Graduate Center is an academic village for graduate studies in an urban setting. The project seeks to establish a campus setting for students and professors who will primarily attend the Graduate Center on ...