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Energic Architecture in Old Town Alexandria
Every architecure is being with life-force such as a plant who lives on the photosynthesis that need carbon dioxide + water + light energy, and provide oxygen in day time. On the contrary, Plants need oxygen and release carbon dioxide while they can not carry out the photosunthesis in night time. …
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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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Context and design in Old Town Alexandria
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Open Air Market in Old Town Alexandria
… were made visible through an open air market in Old Town Alexandria. In this work the stalls of each of the vendors was thought of anthropomorphically as a monster. The form of these monsters were identical at first and in the end had the blessing of the particular needs of the goods being sold …
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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) …
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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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Reading Skins: A Braille Learning Facility in Old Town Alexandria
The resonance of a knock on a door uncovers its density. The smell of a wall describes its materiality. The texture of a floor may invite us to sit or lay down. The smoothness of a handrail comforts our ascent. Human skin is a powerful material that enables us to perceive and understand our …
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Center for the performing arts at Founders Park in Old Town Alexandria
The topic of this thesis has been approached mainly in four fields of investigation. First it has been investigated, in which way theater developed through the ages to make some conclusion of what a theater of the 21st century will be determined, especially with its distinction from the cinema. …
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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
… for each inhabitant, the connecting thresholds are expandable and changeable.
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Home Not Hospice, an integrated community for young and old in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
… segments of our population: single families and older or disabled 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 …
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Celebration of the edge: Old Town Alexandria waterfront, Alexandria, Virginia: a collage of architectural and landscape elements engaged in the transition from land to water
… edge of the Potomac river at Founder's Park in Old Town Alexandria provides a site where visitors can acknowledge the river and the city. A transitional zone has been developed here through the exploration of dualities. The concept of water meeting land is translated in the fragmentation and …
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Resilient Ford's Landing: Stormwater Management, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, and Energy Production
Located on floodplains of the Potomac River in Old Town Alexandria, Ford's Landing boasts a rich history, once known as the Ford Plant. Evolving from its industrial past, it underwent a transformative development in 1996, emerging as the rowhouse neighborhood that we now know today. Developed for a …
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Building for the unseen
… latent in ordinary life. WAAC radio station. Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia.
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The Architecture of the Transformation of Folding and the Design of an Alexandria Law Firm
… the springboard for this thesis. Identifying folding as a basic transformation 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 …
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Adaptive Reuse Co-living for Virginia Tech's WAAC (Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center)
Upon my arrival at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC), I experienced significant challenges in finding suitable accommodation and integrating into the community. Recognizing that many fellow students face similar difficulties, I was inspired to leverage the historical and cultural …
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New vs Old: New Architecture of Purpose in Old Settings
… will invariable be placed next to the old architecture because cities and human settlements last for generations and as humans and tribal species we invariably congregate and build new buildings to live-in, work-in and entertain in. Thus we create cities from ever increasing smaller …
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Healthy Building, People, Planet: A Place for Learning and Play
… design proposal is an Elementary School, in Old Town Alexandria, that promotes learning through activity and play, is a living laboratory for environmental stewardship, and fosters a strong sense of community.
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Material and Form
… idea. The project is a bank made with brick in Old Town Alexandria.
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