Jeffrey Betts
ARCH-4980.2 | Julia Watson, Assistant Professor REINSTATING THE MEANDER JEFF BETTS Chinese landscapes, through rigorous attempts at a modern urbanism and continuous unsustainable sprawl, are nearing the tipping point where there may be no chances at reinstating the ecologies and systems that have sustained life and prosperity to one of the oldest civilizations in history. […]
Jay Zhang
ARCH-4980.4 | Ted Ngai, Lecturer RURAL REVOLUTION Recontextualizing the Agricultural Domain JAY ZHANG The project aims to empower the individual by giving them the ability to be self sustaining and independent using readily available commercial materials and integration of several modern technologies. Hanoi, capital city of Vietnam, is a hastily growing city aimed at modernizing […]
James Wisniewski
ARCH-4980.2 | Julia Watson, Assistant Professor THE FRINGE CITY [Re]Negotiating Urban and Agrarian Landscapes JAMES WISNIEWSKI The birth of civilization marked many things for man – among them the agricultural system of producing food. As populations increased, and with the expansion of technology, we began to see a rift emerge between where this food was […]
Jaclyn Hardiman
ARCH-4980.2 | Julia Watson, Assistant Professor COMMUNAL CAPTURE OF METHANE On the Alaskan North Slope JACLYN HARDIMAN Global trends of climate change remain dynamic throughout the history of our planet, leaving the future without exception. Tipping points mark the irreversible mark in time that the damage done cannot be reconciled. The arctic region is heating […]
Elliot Mistur
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor LITTORAL RECLAMATION A New Tactile Locality & Regional Connectivity ELLIOT MISTUR The Hudson River Shoreline historically was reconstituted as an infrastructural regional cord consisting of railroads, which combined with naturally eroding shorelines, resulted in the need for engineered edges along the river banks. This transformation took place at the […]
Elizabeth Saunier
ARCH-4980.3 | Carla Leitao, Adjunct Professor SOCIAL DRIFT A Mobile Networking System ELIZABETH SAUNIER In the Information Age, technological advances in communications transform commuting into telecommuting as the automobile evolves into an instrument through which people communicate while commuting. The inhabitable vehicle becomes an expansion of the human body, mind and soul: an embodiment of […]
Christos Constantinou
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor TOWARDS A SOCIO-CYBERNETIC ARCHITECTURE CHRISTOS CONSTANTINOU (Peck Prize Winner) Influenced by the emerging discipline of cybernetics during the Post-War period and the ambitious architectural works of Cedric Price, this investigation seeks to define the impact of machine technology and systems theory on architecture and society as a whole; to […]
Christine Koch
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor CULTURE AS NEW INDUSTRY Revitalization of the Poughkeepsie Waterfront CHRISTINE THERESE KOCH Post-industrial Poughkeepsie, located in the heart of the Hudson River Valley, has been going through a period of urban renewal since the late 1960s. Though many plans for waterfront redevelopment were proposed in the beginning stages of […]
Christina Porter
ARCH-4980.1 | Chris Perry, Assistant Professor socioDYNAMISM + spatialSYSTEMS CHRISTINA PORTER FirstPark was first developed in the early 2000’s as a way to strengthen the technology sectors of Central Maine and help to revitalize the economy. Unfortunately it has so far failed in its efforts, using only 4 of its 22 lots with a focus […]
Christianna Bennett
The world is currently undergoing changes that affect the ways in which traditional societies conduct themselves and create relationships with their environment. Traditionally, indigenous peoples have added richness to the biological life on this planet due to their profound insights into specific landscapes and ecologies. Today this knowledge is being threatened, and as a result, the planet is losing vital resources and landscapes. This thesis seeks to explore the relationships between landscape, cultural identity, and biology and how these facets are working in the modern world, ridden by climate change and calling for the need to adapt.