Browsing by Author "Hill, David"

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The Phenomenological Unveiling

Dial, Alexandria (2017-05-05)

As humans, we often experience the world around us solely through our eyes, which has hindered us in designing. This is not to state that all human senses are not important, but rather to point out that our potential to ...

Phytophilia: Using intimate plant knowledge to inform design decisions

Reeder, Drake (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

Guo, Chang (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

Zhao, Xiaoqing (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

Chandler, Kevin (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

Wu, Hao (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 ...

Rates of Succession: Value of Urban Wilds

Nix, William (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 ...

Revelatory Design, Making legible the local implication of a national energy infrastructure.

Arevalo Alvear, Gabriela Estefania (2016-05-03)

This year The National Park Service is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Since the creation of the first National Park America has shown its interest in preserving and protecting the nation’s cultural and natural ...

Shifting Landscapes

Shorter, Ashley (2016-05-03)

Mobile Bay is a landscape that is experiencing distress from human manipulations, much like most coastal environments. The field of landscape architecture is attempting to tackle the issues by advocating for resilient ...

Shifting street: A new street form turn street into place

Zhao, Yuning (2016-05-03)

The street is one of the key spaces that people spend their time at everyday. The experiences of the street are important to enhance the quality of people’s life. There are lots of ways to build a street. With different ...

A Subdivision Retrofit

Garrett, Britton (2017-05-15)

Because of the development process and its lasting impacts on the soil, subdivision landscapes often times communicate a placeless homogeneity. This thesis examines how a lot within the subdivision of Lundy West may be ...

Submerge: Urban Surface Adaptations

Hines, Carlton (2014-05-20)

Impervious surfaces are an ever increasing phenomenon throughout the world. They crop up at the local scale and proliferate into a global phenomenon that exponentially imperils natural systems. Their increasing presence ...

Temporal Awe: Designing for Succession and Emotion in Post-Industrial Landscapes

Hansen, Alfred (2017-05-15)

This research-by-design thesis deals with the treatment of post-industrial sites in Landscape Architecture as spaces capable of bringing an emotional experience to visitors not typically seen within the urban fabric. As ...

Transformative Landscapes: Through an Immersive Lens

Lee, Grace (2016-05-03)

In a world where design and thinking have become quantifiable and didactic, the profession of landscape architecture has become saturated with ecological design. Data-driven methodology is practical and necessary; however, ...

Transgressive Design: the creation of latent experiences on landfills in the social injustice realm

Williams , Dennis (2015-05-04)

The designers of the past sought out the sites where the land would be easy to reclaim without too much hassle of what can and can’t be accomplished in their designs. Therefore I am seeking to go against the Landscape ...

Transgressive Design: the creation of latent experiences on landfills in the social injustice realm

Williams II, Dennis (2015-05-06)

The designers of the past sought out the sites where the land would be easy to reclaim without too much hassle of what can and can’t be accomplished in their designs. In these areas where people who live below the poverty ...