Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Landscape Architecture"
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The Garden Project: Reclaiming the Garden as an Intimate Connection to Place
(2016-05-04)
The garden is a relationship. It brings humanity into tension with nature, creating an assemblage of shared moments over time. The Garden Project is exploring the potential of the garden in the modern profession of landscape ...
How can I explore and represent the atmosphere in landscape architecture by 3Ds Max software?
(2015-05-08)
In landscape architecture, representing in graphic is a way to communicate the vision, the performance of the design. While objects and performance is popular standard to navigate graphic and design, the atmosphere which ...
Immersive Constructed Wetlands
(2014-05-02)
Urban stormwater runoff has historically been managed through engineered
systems designed to move stormwater out of the urban environment and into the outlying
stream and river systems. This had a negative impact on ...
Landscape Disturbance: Using Initial Conditions to Establish Urban Terrain as an Ongoing Negotiation
(2011-11-30)
Rethinking the traditional urban design function of a master plan has become increasingly important in recent years. Not only is there now a recognized need to design in order to accommodate change over time, but there is ...
Landscapes of the Uglyful
(2014-12-10)
Landscape architects can use new radicalisms to move away from the ingrained and the habitual. There is an opportunity to push the boundaries of aesthetics and abandon inefficient design norms that are fixed in the realm ...
Maintenance Reimagined
(2016-05-03)
Landscape maintenance plays a vital role in how designed landscapes perform over time. The current approach is to suppress landscapes by repeating the same techniques through the seasons and years. The dynamic living ...
The Mother Culture: Dirty Creativity in the Urban Margin
(2015-05-05)
Our cities are made up of many landscape typologies. As human social structure has evolved over time, shared values have taken physical form in the urban condition. Urban marginalized space is formed by the backs of buildings ...
Neighborhood regeneration - Through New Patterns of Urban Public Space
(2013-03-18)
Like many other decayed downtown areas in the U.S, the one in Montgomery, AL
has a pedestrian framework which was provided for walking at the beginning of its
settlement. However, most of the downtown neighborhood streets ...
The Next Exploration: Savannah's River Region
(2016-05-03)
Urban landscapes continue to be shaped by dynamic social, cultural, and economic influences. Water remains one component of the landscape that continues to reside in a flux space, influential for life and economic means, ...
Novel Ecology, Novel Activity
(2015-05-05)
Ecosystems are complex, dynamic, and unpredictable to change, evolve, and behave. Change is a normal part of life, and through adaptive and flexible design, we can respond to this complexity. Dynamic ecosystem and novel ...
olympic heritage landscape
(2016-05-03)
A global phenomenon, urbanization started after the Industrial Revolution. Since 1800, the world population has increased by 6 times. In that same time, urban population has increased by 60 times and the rate of urbanization ...
Over the Dam
(2014-04-29)
Strong infrastructure makes a strong city, and advances in infrastructure are linked to the success of any civilization throughout history. Bridges, dams, roads, sewer systems, food sources, energy, and communication ...
Phytophilia: Using intimate plant knowledge to inform design decisions
(2014-05-01)
Landscape architecture is conflicted on the importance of plant knowledge in our profession, where often controversy emerges from questioning the amount needed to create “good” design. While the main focus is on the amount ...
Play Neighborhood
(2016-05-03)
Nowadays the children’s discretionary time is diminishing. In the modern society, children spend their free time more on television, computing, video games and such kind of indoor activities. In addition, children spent ...
Playful landscapes build a resilient city
(2015-05-04)
There are lots of ways to build a resilient city in the world. With different situations, cities should have different ways to build resilient cities, like the case building resilient city in New Orleans is different from ...
Proactive Reuse
(2015-05-04)
In this thesis I explored how as a designer I could approach site design proactively where one use transitions into the next. These times of transition are points that are not respected in our society. Current trends offer ...
Process-Based Design
(2016-05-03)
Landscape designs, nowadays, are commonly presented as compelling visions, both in real projects and conceptual designs. By the end of the deadline, people will be able to experience the new environment as the vision ...
Productive Public Space: Wetland Waterfront Reconnecting to the City in Mobile, AL
(2011-11-30)
Mobile is a port city on the Gulf of Mexico, and is the oldest city in the State of Alabama as well. The convenient location and land-river transportation link gave the city great strategic importance, which fostered it ...
Rates of Succession: Value of Urban Wilds
(2016-05-03)
Natural process is fundamental to landscape architecture. Combining forces with these processes is a landscape architects greatest challenge and opportunity. A dialogue with urban wilds successional qualities is the core ...