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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"rock creek park"”.
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Architectural Postures: A Proposed Education Center of Nature for Rock Creek Park
The human form becomes the bearer of my inspiration, revealing a cosmology within itself, appealing to the idea of understanding the body and implementing its essence into architecture. The lessons found in the tectonic of one's body will assist in discovering an integral logic that may translate …
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Wildland fuel loading estimates along a gradient of forest cover types and landscape factors in Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, West Virginia and Rock Creek Park, Virginia, USA
… and small mammalian species. Within the National Park Service, many managers of parks with high visitation rates have been asked if forests within their parks are in decline, or are at risk of decline, due to the number of standing and dead trees and the amount of downed and dead material on the …
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Grounding Architecture: Reading the Landscape
… strives to ground architecture. The library at Rock Creek Park is nestled into the site, it is of the site, and honest to the site. A building that seems to grow out of Rock Creek Park as it exists in a city, a building that pulls the park into the city, and the city into the park. It is a …
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A monastery on a hill
… of the design and presentation of a monastery in Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. The scheme developed consisted of a church, library, refectory(kitchen and dining space), campanile(bell tower), four chapels, individual cells and gardens, and exterior connecting spaces including a central and …
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Structure & Freedom - A Montessori School in Georgetown
… Streets in Georgetown on the western edge of Rock Creek Park was chosen for the project because of its nature as a haven within an urban context.
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An Earthly Cosmology
… design of a nature center and planetarium within Rock Creek Park, in Washington, DC. The project evolved from a desire to re-imagine a relationship with nature in a way that allows conversation, reflective thinking, and allows one's sense of wonder to enter a place which is between science and …
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The Jewel of the City
… design for a museum of jewels and gemstones for Rock Creek Park in Washington DC.
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Rhythms of Change: the Washington Waldorf School
… site conditions of a "transition site" between Rock Creek Park and the Woodly Park area of Washington DC.
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The Space of the In-between
… D.C. This site is also situated between nature (Rock Creek Park) and the urban realm. This place must function as a significant portal into and out of the city. This concept of space precedes program, through an intense investigation of the site. Creating relationships and responding to the site, …
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The urban garden : Port Alliance, Texas
This thesis focuses on of three urban parks; Central Park i n New York , the Fens to Franklin Park in Boston, and Rock Creek Park in washington, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and the growth of the cities around them. Imbedded in the histories of the parks and their cities are strategies for the …
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Developing office building design
… area of Washington DC, which next to the Rock Creek Park. Surrounding buildings mostly are traditional residential architectures,with sloping roof and brick walls.This site is only 3 blocks away from the main street. Therefore, the site can provide an urban context which means clients and …
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Retreating to Restore: A Haven for the Athletic Mind and Body
… and retired athletes. Tucked away at the edge of Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., in between existing amenities such as the Carter Barron Amphitheatre and the William Fitzgerald Tennis Center, the retreat allows for the continual use of existing amenities along with other resources and …
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Structure in architecture: a center for the study of world religions and mythologies
… I chose the site located at the bridge over Rock Creek Park on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington D.C., for its relationship to the city and for its dramatic sense of place. The capital city of a country founded, in part, by people seeking freedom from religious persecution, Washington D.C. …
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The Urban Floodscape: Revealing, Carving, and Placing the Historic Klingle Ford Road
… D.C. and acts as the Southern boundary for Rock Creek Park. A creek runs alongside of the path, and the moments of collision are the least accessible to both people and water. The thesis explores the processes of material erosion and deposition, and the movement and power of water and asks: …
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Taking Root
… focused lifestyle. A proposed Visitor Center in Rock Creek Park, in Washington, DC, acts as a slow transition from park to city and back again, breaking the landscape into more digestible pieces before putting it back together as a whole. The building's strategy for introduction can be broken up …
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Shipyard to Stoneyard: The Capitol Stones at the Intersection of Material and Memory
The Capitol Stones in Washington DC's Rock Creek Park were a delight for urban explorers, a curiosity for historians, and a tangible connection for descendants of enslaved laborers who quarried, transported, and shaped them into the United States Capitol. Banished from the East Front of the Capitol …
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Northern long-eared bat day roost ecology and novel bat sampling techniques in the mid-Atlantic
… Base Quantico (MCBQ) and Prince William Forest Park (PRWI) in Virginia were male-biased and Rock Creek Park (ROCR) captures in D.C. were female-biased. I found that overall NLEB are associated with mature, deciduous forest. Males used red maples (Acer rubrum) in later decay stages and lower …