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- Arthurdale Reviewed: Sustainable New Deal Housing in AppalachiaGalford, Gregory; Tucker, Lisa M. (2021-05-21)This work in progress is connected to Eleanor Roosevelt’s passion to provide residents of an Appalachian coal-mining town an opportunity to live in a community based on principles of sustainability and social justice. Arthurdale, West Virginia was designed as an ideal community with each family receiving a new home and a plot of land with sufficient acreage to produce their own needs for food. Each home had its own above-ground root cellar and was designed to make the family as independent as possible. Local artisan workshops provided wage-earning jobs and community functions were housed in a town center building. This work in progress revisits that town to learn from the residents how the models have transformed with time. Most houses are still in existence, but with alterations to suit changing needs. The goal of this study is to see what insights of sustainable design can be gleaned from the lived experience of its residents over time. A mixed methods approach will be used, with both surveys and interviews used as tools within both a quantitative and qualitative framework. Expected results will find that longitudinal differences in family lifestyle are reflected in home renovations, and the demographic changes in family makeup have had a strong influence on home adaptations. As new generations of homeowners seek innovations in housing models, the historical lessons of Arthurdale can provide relevance.
- Finding the Potential in Lines: Faults, Horizons, and the CityRosier, Shaun (2024-02-24)Presentation of scholarly research at Virginia Tech's inaugural "Landscape First Symposium".
- High Performance Case Study: Mel and Zora Rashkis Elementary School at Meadowmont(Virginia Tech. Center for High Performance Environments, 2011)An architectural case study of Mel and Zora Rashkis Elementary School at Meadowmont in Chapel Hill, NC.
- High Performance Case Study: R.D. and Euzelle P. Smith Middle School Architect’s Statement Site Shading Environmental Systems Learning Technology Architecture Design Constraints(Virginia Tech. Center for High Performance Environments, 2011)Open plan of the building and day lighting conditions are the initial emphasis. In a typical classroom with the light monitors located in the center, meter readings averaged approximately 55fcs. Interior light sensors keep the classrooms at a balance point by automating the overhead fluorescent lighting. Motion sensors turn off the lights when rooms are not occupied. Shading strategies include aluminum shielded light shelves and angled reflectors on the exterior niche of each concave window location. Design strategies include rain water reclamation and some active solar panels. Storm water runoff collected from the roof to an exterior niche of each concave window location. Design strategies include rain water reclamation and some active solar panels. Storm water runoff collected from the roof to an exterior underground tank to be filtered and used for sinks and water closets. Active solar collectors are strategically placed on some of the light monitors. Solar tubes are used for reclamation of hot water for hand washing use in the cafeteria. Photovoltaic collectors activate the night lighting system at the exterior porticos.
- A New Regional Environmental Learning Center, Franklin County, Virginia(Virginia Tech. Center for High Performance Environments, 2005-09-23)This is a design project for a proposed Regional Environmental Learning Center in Franklin County, VA.
- Problematising the Sublime: Affective Archives in Landscape DesignRosier, Shaun (2024-10-12)This paper brings forth the problem of bodily, affective, intelligence and its role within landscape architectural design processes. Specifically, how might landscape designers draw on their internal memory-archives of body-environment affects to help shape design decisions? Despite sustained interest in phenomenology and other theories of environmental aesthetics, the operations of spatial affective experience have remained ambiguous within design discourse. This has led to the design of spatial experience being viewed with suspicion due to claims of ‘mere subjectivity’ or a lack of rigor compared to recent trends towards universality and positivism. To counter this, this paper argues that the concreteness of affect can be made present through Deleuze and Guattari’s aesthetics of affect and assemblages. More specifically, experiences of the [landscape]sublime can be understood as an ecological encounter with intensity that disrupts our being’s ability to reference it against one’s bodily archive of affects. This disruption shocks us into determining a creative solution to the spatial and sensory problem at hand, which at first may manifest as a sense of terror. Still, as the processes of experimentation unfold, we find ourselves reveling in the joy of the creation of a new self through the processes of individuation and actualization. Through this aesthetics of affect, this paper argues that although the sublime is an ‘experiential limit case’, it reveals how other forms of landscape experience can be deciphered and made concrete through and for design.
- A Prototype for a Manufactured Vocational Technology Classroom(Virginia Tech. Center for High Performance Environments, 2007)A collaborative design project for a proposed vocational technology classroom. The project team included the Center for High Performance Learning Environments, GE Modular Space Division and Montgomery County Schools.
- Shenandoah Valley Discover Museum(Virginia Tech. Center for High Performance Environments, 2007)A design project for the proposed Shenandoah Valley Discover Museum.
- The Union of Learning, Environmental Science and Architecture(Virginia Tech. Center for High Performance Environments, 2007)This design project envisions a space that supports learning about architecture and environmental science.