Browsing Auburn University Graduate School by Department "Landscape Architecture"
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Affect and Interaction on Atlanta's Beltline
(2013-03-18)
This project addresses homogenous infrastructural design.
The research suggests that a reevaluation of infrastructure
based on a close attention to its social and physical conditions
can enable new approaches to its ...
Batty Landscapes: Rethinking Urban Pests.
(2015-05-04)
As a species we humans dominate the lands in which we live. Because of this we have started to lose respect for other species and often quickly dismiss them. This thesis looks to address this issue and change the way in ...
Beyond Remnant
(2016-05-03)
Cities' safety issue is one of the most important issues facing humanity today, due to its high population density and highly centralized properties. Over the years, the frequency and intensity of tornadoes and other such ...
Beyond The Pit [of Democracy]: Mine Reclamation, Emergence, and Finite Resources
(2013-03-18)
Through the integration of democratic process with that of the reclamation of the Martin-Marietta Aggregate Quarry (MMQ), my design research proposes that it is possible to positively change contemporary understanding of ...
Blur
(2014-05-01)
The world is not cleanly divided into separate self-contained entities. Rather, the landscape is comprised of components that overlap, interact, and intermingle with each other, creating gradients and ecotones between ...
Brownfield Topographies: Regenerating brownfields through topological and ecological disturbance
(2013-03-18)
Brownfield topology is my term for the regeneration of urban brownfield sites through the disturbance of topography and site ecologies. This approach physically moves earth to generate unique arrangements of topography and ...
Changing the Channel on T.V.
(2011-11-30)
Changing the channel on ‘TV’ is a landscape architecture research project which interrogates the concept of terrain vague through the practises of the formless, a theory developed by Georges Bataille in the late 1920’s. ...
Conservation Design: Linking Development to the Land
(2011-11-30)
Alabama contains well over 500 abandoned mines across the northern part of the state and while some mining zones continue to degrade the landscape over time, others have been reclaimed naturally and left in an ambiguous ...
The Dance: a fluid model of street design
(2014-04-29)
During the early twentieth century, the American city experienced changes to its infrastructure that are still visible today. These changes were a result of the city beautiful movement. Some of the changes to the city ...
Deadland: A Cemetery Design in Columbus Georgia
(2014-05-02)
Cemeteries are sacred spaces that have the ability to evoke awareness, fear, awe, reverence,
memory and other high emotions that transcend the spatial. When one thinks about a cemetery,
it is often a mystifying space ...
Departure, A New Urban Cemetery
(2016-05-03)
Cemeteries can offer tremendous value as a landscape that bonds us to our humanity. Yet, the once popular American cemetery has become alienated from the living. These sacred landscapes have become obscure spaces embedded ...
Design Open Systems: How Can Middle Branch Harbor in Baltimore be Designed as an Open System?
(2013-03-22)
This thesis researches the potential of an open systems approach to the design of urban coastlines. Open systems are created and informed by the matter- energy that continually flows through them. A crucial feature is their ...
Designing a Landscape Based on Childhood Play
(2011-11-30)
Children have the right to play. Throughout history we have recordings of children playing in all cultures. PLAY is a basic need along with nutrition, health, shelter and education. It is vital to the development of all ...
Eating the Landscape You Live In: How Can Contemporary Communities Be Incorporated into the Agricultural Landscape?
(2011-11-30)
This thesis explores the idea of creating settlements that function aesthetically, as well as economically, by designing and incorporating human living conditions into productive agrarian landscapes. The project designs a ...
Emergent Design in Landscape Architecture: The Application of the Theory of Emergence to the Craft of Creating Public Urban Spaces
(2011-11-30)
As scientific philosophies and theories have evolved, so has their application to the craft of landscape architecture. The theory of emergence, which was developed in the 1970s, is currently finding applications in the ...
Entering the Interspace
(2013-03-22)
This thesis document explores the relationships between topography, transportation infrastructure, and the experiential self within the urban context of Atlanta Georgia. The site undergoing exploration exists at the ...
Estrangement
(2015-05-05)
In abandoned rural landscapes, impressions of culture are overtaken by the steadiness of living things. The familiar succumbs to the wild, resulting in physical environments that arouse curiosity because of their uncanny ...
Feral Towns : Alabama's Shrinking Towns
(2015-05-04)
The 21st century has created a feral condition in many small towns in Alabama. This feral condition has resulted in social, ecological, and spatial changes that require new forms of civic spaces, and understanding.
Fluxity
(2014-05-01)
Linear, static, and monofunctional methods of design have historically resulted in landscapes of permanence, fixity, and immutability, even though they work within dynamic systems. This thesis emerges from the interest of ...
the formless: a designer's dialogue with process
(2015-05-04)
The idea of formlessness in landscape architecture is defined as dynamic processes, such as wind blowing and plant growth. These are not things you associate with a given form, but a fluid and dynamic process. Specifically, ...