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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Alexandria Virginia"”.
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A food market in Alexandria Virginia
… may flourish and prosper. A Food Market for Alexandria is a proposition for a place in Old Town Alexandria Virginia, where the growth of responsible communities may occur in an architectural setting which is a responsive member of the collection of buildings that house the human city.
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A cemetery at Jones Point Alexandria, Virginia
The burial place of the future should engage the living in the process of death and remembrance in a way which counteracts the negative responses associated with death and remembrance in a way which counteracts the negative responses associated with death. A new cemetery design which acknowledges …
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Experimental theatre in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia
Theatre would be radical, arousing, inspiring, challenging popular emotion, presenting native problems. Human strength and aspiration would go there for inspiration..." - Frank Lloyd Wright- Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Gerald Nordland: Frank Lloyd Wright in the realm of ideas, Bynum, NC: Southern …
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A Dormitory for Architecture Students in Alexandria, Virginia
This thesis is an intimate exploration. A personal journey between here and there: what I left behind, what I always kept close to me and all the new things that I learned and experience during the last four years. I just tried to put myself together as a person as well as an architect; taking from …
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Order and disorder: a hotel in Alexandria, Virginia
The main theme to investigate repetitive elements included an investigation into the limits of monotony and an addition of an exception to their rank, that is why the design for a hotel has been chosen. The secondary theme to crystallize my beliefs about urban design was possible by choosing a site …
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Material Fluidity: Sense - Will - Form, Alexandria, Virginia Maritime Museum
… navigation. Located on North Union Street in Alexandria, Virginia, the building is anchored to the edge of the Potomac, taking full advantage of the endless source of energy that the river provides. The building's form derives itself from the interaction between structure and water. It borrows …
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Live-work artisan's community in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
… complex for an artisan's community in Old Town Alexandria. The Project is set to explore these design issues: 1) urban live-work housing community, and how architecture can enhance it; 2) relation of private, public and transitional spaces; 3) pedestrian versus vehicular circulation; 4) modern …
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Rhythm and structure: a church for Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
The site is in Old Town Alexandria which lies outside of the metropolitan area of Washington DC in northern Virginia. The project is a church, and it sits looking over the Potomac River on Union and Queen Streets in the historic district of Alexandria. My initial idea was that a church can relate …
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A Public Bath in Alexandria, Virginia: Body, Water, and Architecture
This thesis investigation and design project were driven by the desire to develop and understand how body relates nature through tectonic objects. I explore how body reacts to different thermal and moisture condition from architectural elements in order to examine the relationship between body and …
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Design within an urban frame: a school for palimpsest Alexandria, Virginia
It is in man's nature to want to know his place within his environment. This inherent need manifests itself in many ways, often unique to the cultures and societies that husband them. The primacy of man's need for a sense of his place in the world is evident in the collective mythologies that …
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Spirit of place: designing within the historic context of Alexandria, Virginia
… investigation of the Spirit of a historic place, Alexandria, Virginia to acquire an understanding of it’s identity; the unique patterns, language, structure, rhythm, and character, which has led to its development as a meaningful place. To respect the Spirit of this place through the design of a …
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Interaction and Intervention a case study: 1019 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Virginia
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 lack of undeveloped sites in urban areas. This thesis is directed toward …
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Places for people: housing in historical context in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
The aim of this design thesis was to look carefully at the historical environment of the chosen site, and with the understanding developed from this exploration, to design a group of houses that would answer to the desires of the individual and the needs of the collective, or simply: to create …
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Felinus Domus: A Veterinary Hospital for Cats in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
Throughout time man has discovered that the human form, in all its harmonious proportion, can be used as a guide, gauge and tool to design and build structures. However, the human figure has not been the only organic form used to create architecture. Many animals create dwellings that synchronize …
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Modal Shifts: Row Houses and Alley Houses in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
Living in the city requires a balance between public and private modes and individual and communal identities. This project explores the subtleties and intricacies of architectural responses to these concerns in a housing development for a tight, typical urban block. Recognizing that the …
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Humane Architecture to Befriend the Animals we Live with: Animal Shelter in beautiful Alexandria, Virginia
This thesis is a study of architecture on how to improve the life of homeless animals through strengthening the relationship between us, humans and the animals we live among. There are millions of shelter animals being killed every year which is both dreadful and expensive. This number can be …
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Home Not Hospice, an integrated community for young and old in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
… persons and couples. Located in Old Town Alexandria Virginia, the project sits on the banks of the Potomac River. The question of integration is central to this thesis. The first design challenge is to integrate the older persons and persons with disabilities into the community. …
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The Architecture of the Transformation of Folding and the Design of an Alexandria Law Firm
… became the focus for developing an Old town, Alexandria, Virginia law firm building. Folding is conceptually used in the spatial and inhabitable forms of the building as well as the materials, textures, and finishes of the walls, ceilings, and floors. Folding is structurally investigated by …
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slowness
lavare lente | a place for slow washing | alexandria, virginia the proposal is for a slow laundering facility for alexandria, virginia. the building is intended to be slow and deliberate in its construction and inhabitation. without conventional machines, the architecture and the individual must …
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