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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Downtown Blacksburg"”.
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A quadrangle for downtown Blacksburg
… shared with us their awareness of a site in downtown Blacksburg bound by College Avenue, Draper Road, Roanoke Street and Otey Street. The sight is a locus of interface between the university and the town. A place rich in contextual nuance, movement, rhythm, axis and history interact to create …
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Processional and Threshold; A Sacred Space for Downtown Blacksburg
… a Presbyterian church has been constructed in downtown Blacksburg to instrumentally govern an interaction between congregation and form.
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A Train Station for Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia: An Analysis of Blacksburg's Urban Condition and the Insertion of a New Defining Landmark
Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia, is defined by the presence of the townâ s original sixteen blocks, situated in a four x four square gridded arrangement. The edges of the downtown area are loosely bounded by unique natural and architectural markers and by rules for urban development that contribute …
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Blacksburg redevelopment
Using the vehicle of redeveloping downtown Blacksburg, an architectural problem concerning planning, structure, housing and landscaping, this thesis considers the implications of each component and how they interrelate, to produce a built form in harmony with its surroundings.
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Interspaces: The Odd Fellows Lodge
… asserting a new presence as an introduction to downtown Blacksburg.
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Music and art school for Virginia Polytechnic Institute
… does How to make a transition from the scale of downtown Blacksburg to the scale of V.P.I. academic buildings. How to connect the two parts - music and art schools. How to use walls as more than just "structural parts” How to create space rather than “divide space” How to receive light rather …
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Acts of Liturgy
This project is a Catholic church located in downtown Blacksburg, VA. Whereas many religious buildings seem to rely heavily on iconography in order to designate the building as sacred, this project explicitly seeks an architectural expression of the liturgy that exists independently, but not …
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The Making of Character: When Space Becomes Room, and Room Becomes Place
This thesis explores how downtown public spaces can strengthen community life by rethinking the idea of the "third place," spaces outside home and work where people gather. Using downtown Blacksburg as the main site and comparing it with examples from Charlottesville and Gatlinburg, the study …
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The Urban Place: Places for Jay to Sit
… made by Jason Bergen. While walking through downtown Blacksburg, unsuccessful in our quest to find a place sit down and eat lunch, Jay said, "You know Jon, there are no good places to sit in Blacksburg." Without realizing it, Jay had made a simple observation that can be used to assess the …
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Alley-Gallery
… chosen for this thesis project is located in downtown Blacksburg, Virginia. It consists of a 30'x110' infill lot and an alley running parallel to it. An initial desire to blur the boundary between the alley and the proposed building led to a study of the potential of parallel planes …
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Architecture for Urbanity
… to reinforce the ideas of urbanity in historic downtown Blacksburg. It supports the expansion of the downtown urban density along Main Street and at the same time provides an important urban node, manifesting the meeting of the Town of Blacksburg and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State …
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A Citizen Plaza in Blacksburg
… and plaza project. The site is located in the downtown Blacksburg area and not far from the Virginia Tech main campus. By utilizing the idea of a lifted groundmass, the project creates a new place both for the town and the university. The space underneath the mass is a parking garage embedded …
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Blacksburg Centre for the Arts: a proposed cultural center and town redevelopment
… generating a new environment for towns, using Blacksburg as an example of towns and a cultural center as the vehicle of generation. A need for a cultural center is established, and activities are programmed to fit that need. The idea is to create a center that will generate a new surrounding …
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Linear life: the alley rediscovered
… habitation. The housing settlement is located in downtown Blacksburg, a small college town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. The site is one of the original 16 blocks of the town's central business district. An urban density exists due to the many retail shops and restaurants that …
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Imagine Blacksburg: Using immersive 3D models to explore density
… It presents a concept idea for a section of Downtown Blacksburg, Virginia that meets the various planning goals for the community. It also experiments with an innovative way of presenting and fostering discussion around this kind of vision by inviting stakeholders to experience models of the …
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Real-Time Estimation of Traffic Stream Density using Connected Vehicle Data
… were collected along a signalized approach in downtown Blacksburg, VA. Results indicate that density estimates produced by the linear KF approach are the most accurate. A sensitivity of the estimation approaches to various factors including the level of market penetration (LMP) of CVs, the …
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Beauty in everyday landscapes: film as a method of investigation of sensual perception, human action, movement and landscape performance in cities
… for the investigation is the farmers market in downtown Blacksburg, VA. Farmers markets, community gardens and other urban everyday spaces that involved urban agriculture had been subjects of interest throughout my research. The farmers market is an ideal setting because it gathers many elements …
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Two Screens and an Urban Place
An exploration to utilize the notion of a screen in order to orchestrate an urban response, an urban mixed-use building. It is an investigation into the contradictions of materiality and the inherent values of organistic and rigid geometries and formations in terms of architecture and the facade. …