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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Navy Yard"”.
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Designing an integrated waterfront : responsive redevelopment at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
… focus of this research. Using the Philadelphia Navy Yard as its primary case study, this research explores the spatial dimensions of contemporary waterfront planning in a changing economic landscape. The research attempts to answer the following questions: Can a city effectively integrate …
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An environmental response in the design of a public aquaculture center at the Charlestown Navy Yard
… aquaculture research center in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Three main programmatic components define the building: a production-oriented fish farm which uses the dry dock for growing fish and also stocks the dry dock to provide public recreational fishing; a research facility to study and …
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32 in '44: A management and environmental study of submarine construction at Portsmouth Navy Yard during World War II
… submarines a year in the 1930s, the Portsmouth Navy Yard completed an astonishing thirty-two submarines in 1944. The yard's outstanding performance during World War II was the product of a highly motivated work force and a management team that thrived in a decentralized wartime shipyard …
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Siting amenities and the public review process : the Kennedy Library in Cambridge and New England Aquarium in the Charlestown Navy Yard
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Fitting and re-fitting : adaptive re-use proposal for building 114 in the Charlestown Navy Yard as a bio-tech research facility
n the 1988 Master Plan of the Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 114 was originally planned as a boat repair and maintenance facility with offices. It appeared to be a logical proposal which would revive it to its previous function as the Navy Yard's historic Boatworks building, and introduce a …
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Growing in Place
… Southwest under urban renewal, the Wharf, and Navy Yard. It recognizes the democratic urban design patterns from L'Enfant's original plan, which have enriched urban life, and expands on these inherited American ideals to further articulate a future community rooted in place. It prioritizes …
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Shipyard to Stoneyard: The Capitol Stones at the Intersection of Material and Memory
… Stones to an adaptively reused factory at the Navy Yard, where they can be stored, visited, and studied in a cavernous daylit atrium. In addition to housing the stones, as part of this thesis the WWII era naval weapons factory features retail at ground level and residences on four stories …
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More Than Housing: Re-defining Affordable Housing
… for affordable options. The DC neighborhood, Navy Yard, saw one of the most intense displacements of low-income residents. My thesis asks the question: can architecture and its design sustain the primary function of housing but also create a positive long-lasting effect on the occupants' …
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The Matter of the Hold: Housing futures and the paradigm of the ship
… BHHD can be seen in contrast to the Charlestown Navy Yard, an adjacent shipyard where centuries of investment have established a robust infrastructure of maintenance. We ask: how could the paradigm of the ship, and the creation of material strategies for large, complex assemblages funded by …
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The Role of Architecture in Systemic Gender Inequality: National Organization for Women's Headquarters
… of the Washington D.C in a very fast growing Navy Yard neighborhood at the intersection of the M Street SE which is main corridor of this neighborhood and New Jersey Avenue SE which is a direct way to the U.S. Capitol Building . To sum up, my goal in this project is to bring architecture to …