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DEAN’S WELCOME

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DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION

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ACADEMIC PROGRAM INDEX

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FACULTY & STAFF

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The College of Arts + Architecture is dedicated to transdisciplinary conversation and collaboration, design innovation, creative leadership development, and research and communication using our sense of imagination.

We are intensely focused on process. We seek to frame new ways of looking at the world we live in to prepare for the one we are now making.

Ken Lambla Dean and Professor

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COLLEGE of ARTS + ARCHITECTURE PAVILION / LANDON ROBINSON _ DESIGNER

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DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION

PROSPECTUS_MAKING chronicles our ambition in the School of Architecture through the lens of student work produced in recent years. The sheer delight in making, in organizing matter with intentionality, creativity and sensibility is what draws us together as a community of impassioned thinkers and makers.

Our extraordinary faculty leads this effort.

During the last few years, we have strengthened a number of areas in our program. This includes new and revised courses in architectural theory, design computation and building performance; increased research support to students and faculty; expanded facilities in a new downtown location; inauguration of a new graduate degree program in urban design; strengthened connections with the professional community; new international programming in China; and successful study abroad programs in Rome, Spain-Portugal, Switzerland and Central Europe. We’ve also welcomed an expanded faculty in building technology, computational design and history/theory.

“The only thing constant is change itself.” (Heraclitus) Change is abound. Arguably, the profession and discipline of architecture is experiencing change as never before. New energy mandates, expanding role of technology, globalization, social and environmental equity, new media, and rapid urbanization are but a few of the dominant forces driving this change. We strive to make sense of our changing world. We reflect on these forces with equal measure of promise and caution. Complexity flourishes. As a program, we continue to evolve and grow in the face of change while striving to meet the needs of our talented and motivated students.

As the pace of change accelerates in the 21st century, a new and more empathetic modern world is unfolding before us, a 8

period giving way to a more fundamentally integrative way of thinking, visualizing and practicing, a new modernity, a new spirit of entrepreneurialism associated with a more just, sustainable, socially-conscious, diverse and information-saturated world, one that is in the process of emplacing building into a more cohesive social and environmental vision, with increased collaborative teaming and social networking, applying fields of information that promotes empowerment and new possibilities for design professionals.

I am both inspired and encouraged by these times, and equally inspired by our students and their work. It is their commitment coupled with their talent that makes it an absolute pleasure to be a part of the School of Architecture.

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Faculty and students in the / School of Architecture are committed to creating an open-minded and creative atmosphere to pursue research, explore new forms of building, and discover collaborative practices that nurture human potential.

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The School of Architecture at UNCCharlotte is devoted to engaging students in an energetic study of how architecture affects - and stimulates - everyday life.

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JOSÉ L.S. GÁMEZ / Associate Professor Ph.D. in Architecture, UCLA; M.Arch., UC Berkeley; Bachelor of Environmental Design, Texas A&M.

Mona Azarbayjani researches building energy modeling and climate responsive building skins in high-rise buildings. She has published her research on sustainable building systems in a number of technical publications. She currently works in the SoA’s Center for Integrated Building Design Research and teaches design studio and environmental control systems.

THOMAS GENTRY / Assistant Professor M.Arch., Illinois Institute of Technology; B.Arch., University of Arizona.

Thomas Gentry is a registered architect and Director of the Laboratory for Innovative Housing, a multidisciplinary research laboratory with the IDEAS Center in the Lee College of Engineering and the Center for Integrated Building Design Research in the College of Arts + Architecture. Gentry uses this multidisciplinary approach to teach and practice the integrative design process.

JEFF BALMER / Assistant Professor M.Arch., Iowa State University; B.Arch. & Bachelor of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo.

Jeff Balmer received an ACSA Creative Achievement Honorable Mention for the pedagogy of his CoA+A undergraduate writing seminar and co-chaired MADE, the 2010 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS). Balmer teaches the first-year undergraduate studio sequence, second-year writing seminar, and an advanced seminar in postwar cultural history.

KYOUNG-HEE KIM / Assistant Professor Ph.D. & M.Arch., University of Michigan; Master of Architectural Engineering and Bachelor of Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea.

Kyoung-Hee Kim teaches with a focus on the integration of art and building physics, performance-based design, and climate responsive envelopes. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of building life cycle integrated design that identifies specific implications in pre-use, use, and post-use phases and enhances building performance.

CHRIS BEORKREM / Assistant Professor Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University; B.Arch., Iowa State University.

Chris Beorkrem focuses on research in both the physical and analytical realms of digital design. In his teaching, practice, and research he explores the balance between the legibility of form and the efficient use of time, machines and material. He teaches digital design and fabrication in the School of Architecture.

ZHONGJIE LIN / Associate Professor Ph.D. in Architecture & M.S. in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania; M.Arch. & B.Arch., Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

DALE BRENTRUP / Professor M.Arch., UCLA; B.A. in Architecture, Arizona State University.

Zhongjie Lin specializes in modern architectural avant-garde movements, theory of urban design, and contemporary urbanism in East Asia. He is the author of Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan (Routledge, 2010), Urban Design in the Global Perspective (China Architectural & Building Press, 2006, co-authored with Kuang Shi and Gary Hack) and The Making of a Chinese Model New Town(China Architectural & Building Press, 2012).

Dale Brentrup is Director of the Center for Integrated Building Design Research and Daylighting + Building Energy Performance Laboratory. He is a registered architect and a senior research fellow in the Infrastructure Design Environment and Sustainability Center in the Lee College of Engineering at UNC Charlotte.

EMILY MAKAŠ / Assistant Professor Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism, Cornell University; Master of Historic Preservation, Columbia University; B.A. in History, University of Tennessee.

CHARLES DAVIS / Assistant Professor Ph.D. & M.S. in Architecture, University of Pennsylvania; M.Arch., SUNY Buffalo.

Charles Davis II’s research examines the historical integrations of race and style theory in modern architectural debates, as well as the general effect of racial discourses on architectural production and professionalization. Charles has published essays in peer-reviewed journals including Architectural Research Quarterly, as well as the interdisciplinary journals APPX and VIA. In the past he has given talks at PhilaNOMA, the local chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects.

Emily Makaš specializes in the history of modern European cities, and her research specifically engages the relationship between architecture, cities, heritage, memory, identity, and politics.

Makaš teaches architectural history and seminars on topics such as “Capital Cities,” “Architecture and the National Identity,” and “Layered Berlin.”

Most recent publications include the edited volume Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe (Routledge, 2010, co-edited with T.D. Conley) and the monograph Architectural Conservation in Europe and the Americas (Wiley, 2011, co-authored with J.H. Stubbs).

THOMAS FORGET / Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Program Coordinator M.Arch., Princeton University; Master of Environmental Design, Yale University; B.A. in Art History, Columbia University.

Thomas Forget’s current practice and research explore the intersection of public space and architectural projection. His work as an urban designer and a moviemaker complement his scholarship on twentieth century urbanism, linear perspective, and cinema. His practice and research have been both exhibited and published.

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José Gámez is Coordinator of the Design + Society Research Center and a member of the Latin American Studies faculty. His research and design practices explore questions of cultural identity in architecture and urban design, the impacts of Latino immigration upon urban space, and critical practices in Chicano Art.

MONA AZARBAYJANI/ Assistant Professor Ph.D. Architecture-Building Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; M.Arch. & B.Arch., Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

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JOHN NELSON / Associate Professor M.Arch. & B.Arch., Kent State University.

John Nelson is a registered architect in private practice since 1976. His research, practice, and community outreach efforts center around the concerns of design-build affordable housing and climate responsive design. He teaches topical studios, environmental systems, and seminars on climate responsive passive design, computational energy analysis and prefabricated affordable housing.

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/ DEBORAH RYAN / Associate Professor Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University; Bachelor of Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University.

Deborah Ryan has a 25-year history of assisting communities and their leaders with challenges relating to development, urban open space, downtown revitalization and civic engagement in the community planning process. Formerly, she was the founding and former Director of the Charlotte Community Design Studio, Director of the Urban Open Space Leadership Institute (OSL) and Director of the Mayor’s Institute on City Design: South.

ERIC SAUDA / Professor M.Arch., UCLA; A.B., Princeton University.

Eric Sauda specializes in the use of digital and computational technologies and their transformative effect on architecture. His research focuses on urban visualization and interactive architecture. He works closely with the Urban Visualization Research Group, the Charlotte Visualization Center at the College of Computing and Informatics, and the Computing in Place Research Group.

NICK SENSKE / Assistant Professor Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture, University of Michigan; Master of Science in Architectural Studies in Design Computation, MIT; B.Arch., Iowa State University.

Nicholas Senske specializes in digital design integration. His current research draws from the fields of education and computer science and seeks to improve how architecture students learn computer software and computational thinking. In collaboration with other faculty, he is developing this research into a new curriculum for digital design within the School of Architecture. He teaches second-year undergraduate studio and the digital methods seminar.

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JENNIFER SHIELDS / Visiting Assistant Professor M.Arch. & Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Virginia.

Jennifer Shields is a registered architect and partner at flux. She has taught upper level studios and seminars based on her research considering the phenomenological qualities of the built environment that contribute to a multi-sensory experience and creation of place. Prior to teaching, Jen worked on numerous commercial, retail and residential projects in North Carolina and South Carolina while at Tobin Dudley, now known as Tobin Starr and Partners.

GREG SNYDER / Associate Professor M.Arch., Rice University; Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Texas, Arlington.

Greg Snyder is a registered architect and teaches in the foundation programs of the SoA as well as the Graduate Thesis program. His research interests are in issues that arise out of acts of making and construction, and the phenomena and meaning that accrue in and around these acts. The class First Year for Life is the most recent seminar elective that examines relationships between one’s architectural education and the practice of everyday life. He has received numerous grants for projects including “This House is Home / The Mobile Gallery.”

MICHAEL SWISHER / Associate Professor M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art; A.B. in Architecture, Washington University.

Michael Swisher’s involvement with foundation studies extends across a 30-year teaching career.

His primary teaching responsibilities include first year studio and skills, as well as visual studies electives. Michael has exhibited his paintings commercially for over two decades and most recent publication was a small book for his institution on the curriculum and sequence of studies in the foundation program of the first semester.

DAVID THADDEUS / Professor M.Arch., University of Houston; Bachelor of Structural Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

David Thaddeus is a registered architect who teaches structures, architectural design and sustainable structure. His research focuses on the pedagogy of structural concepts and ideas using visual and qualitative methods. In addition he is interested in exploring structures, materials and construction methods from the perspective of sustainability and performance. David teaches seminars for the Architect Registration Exam (ARE) all across the USA and Canada.

DAVID WALTERS / Professor Undergraduate & Graduate Degrees in Architecture and Urban Design, University of Newcastle-uponTyne, UK. David Walters is a British architect who has four decades of experience as an architect, urban designer and community planner. David is a senior urban designer with The Lawrence Group, Architects and Town Planners. With The Lawrence Group, David has won state and national awards for urban design master plans, form-based codes and community planning projects based in Carolina communities. Walters is the author or co-author of three books: Design First: Design-based Planning for Communities (with Linda Luise Brown); Designing Community: Charrettes, Masterplans and Form-based Codes; and The Future Office (with Christopher Grech). He is also the program coordinator of the Master of Urban Design program at the College of Arts and Architecture.

BETSY WEST / Associate Professor M.Arch., Yale University; B.Arch., North Carolina State University.

Betsy West is a practicing architect whose projects have been recognized at local, regional, and national levels. She has served as Chair of the former College of Architecture and as Graduate Program Coordinator. Her teaching, research, and practice activities explore the culture, social, political, and physical aspects of architecture and its relationship to landscape.

PETER WONG / Associate Professor & Graduate Program Coordinator M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in Architectural Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.

Peter Wong is a registered architect and has taught architectural design, history, and theory since 1988.

He is a recipient of a 1996 Design Excellence Award given by the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and was recognized with a Merit Award in 2004 by the Charlotte AIA Chapter for a workshop and guest house completed in 2003.

Peter recently received an honorable mention with his colleague Jeff Balmer for “Writing Architecture in Six Genres,” an undergraduate writing seminar, as part of the ACSA’s Creative Achievement Award Program for 2010.

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KEN LAMBLA / Dean & Professor M.Arch., UC Berkeley; Bachelor of Environmental Design, University of Kansas.

Ken Lambla, AIA, has worked as an architect and urban designer in Belfast (Northern Ireland), Chicago, San Francisco, and, during his tenure at UNC Charlotte, throughout North Carolina on educational and institutional projects. His career in education and practice is focused on architecture as community development and advocates social responsibility, craft, and innovation.

LEE GRAY / Associate Dean & Associate Professor Ph.D. in Architectural History, Cornell University; Master of Architectural History, University of Virginia; B.Arch & B.A. in Architecture, Iowa State University.

Lee Gray is author of From Ascending Rooms to Express Elevators: A History of the Passenger Elevator in the 19th Century. Current projects include a history of escalators and moving sidewalks and a history of AIA Charlotte. He has appeared on the History Channel in “Modern Marvels - Building a Skyscraper” and the PBS program “NOVA: Trapped in an Elevator” (from “The Secret Life of Elevators”).

S/oA ADMINISTRATION CHRIS JARRETT / Director & Professor Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design, Columbia University; B.Arch., University of Oregon.

Chris Jarrett’s research and teaching engages environmental design issues, including green building theory, eco-tectonics, and sustainable building technology. He recently received the BP Solar Award for Innovation, an AIA regional COTE Award, and an Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research Award. His work has been published in Japan Architect, Architecture, Progressive Architecture, and Interior Design.

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KELLY CARLSON-REDDIG / Associate Director & Associate Professor Master of Environmental Design, Yale University; B.Arch., Texas Tech University.

Kelly Carlson-Reddig’s research focuses primarily on the conceptual dimension of architecture’s materiality and tectonics. During her tenure at UNC Charlotte, she has developed two lecture series, “Architecture’s Materiality” and “Beyond Center: Diversity in Architecture.” She teaches graduate architectural design studios and critical practice/ technology seminars.

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ADJUNCT FACULTY/ JEREMY ROH / Part-Time Lecturer M.Arch., UNC Charlotte; B. Design, University of Florida.

CHRIS CAMPBELL / Part-Time Lecturer M.Arch. & B.A. in Architecture, UNC Charlotte.

Chris Campbell teaches design studios and representation seminars in the undergraduate foundation program. His research and work focus on developing the colorations between painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture. Chris received the Master of Architecture Representation Book Award in 2011 for his thesis ‘Didactic Counterparts: Painting and Architecture as Parallel Design Practices’. His work has been featured in the ‘9 Ideas for Long Farm’ exhibition.

Jeremy Roh specializes in digital methods and technology as it relates to project design in academia and the profession of architecture. Jeremy has taught upper-level seminars that explore 3D Modeling, Digital Visualization, Scripted Programming Languages, and the use of Graphical Algorithm Editors to explore parametric form making and computational design techniques. In addition to his work as a Project Designer at The FWA Group Architects, Jeremy owns his own business, JRoh DIGITAL & RESIDENTIAL DESIGN where he specializes in BIM Consulting, 3D Rendering, Animation, and Web Design.

KAREN RUSSCHER / Part-Time Lecturer Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University; B.S. in Landscape Architecture, University of Kentucky.

CARRIE GAULT / Part-Time Lecturer M.Arch. & B.A. in Architecture, UNC Charlotte.

Carrie Gault is a registered architect and teaches design studio in the undergraduate foundation program. With over 20 years experience in the design community, Carrie worked for mid-sized firms in Boston and Charlotte before starting her own firm. Happy Box Architecture has been recognized locally, regionally, and nationally for its innovative approaches to design and its sensitivity to the communities and ecologies in which it works. The firm focuses on renovation, infill, and sustainable projects with commercial, institutional, and nonprofit clients. Carrie also collaborates with local artists on public and private art installations and multimedia productions.

JOSIE HOLDEN-BULLA / Part-Time Lecturer B.Arch., Mississippi State University.

Josie Holden-Bulla is a registered architect and teaches design studio courses in 2nd and 3rd year and has taught topical studios for 4th year and graduate students. She attempts to balance practice and teaching in the steadfast belief that the two activities compliment one another more often than they conflict with one another. In architectural practice, she has contributed to a number of urban infill multi-use structures and community-based, urban design projects.

DICK PERLMUTTER / Part-Time Lecturer AADiploma, Architectural Association, London; B.A., Oberlin College.

Dick Perlmutter is a registered architect and principal of Perlmutter Architects. Dick has designed and managed projects for many prominent firms, including Arquitectonica, Spillis Candela/AECOM, Perkins & Will, and Little. While at the Architectural Association in London he studied under Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, and Zaha Hadid. Dick teaches Professional Practice for the B. Arch. and M. Arch programs in the School of Architecture.

LANDON ROBINSON / Part-Time Lecturer M.Arch., Cornell University; B.Arch. & B.A. in Architecture, UNC Charlotte.

Landon Robinson teaches first year design studios and representation seminars focusing on drawing and observation. His interests in and research on drawing and architecture are guided by the study of Aldo Rossi and John Hejduk. The Solopsist Vessel, his project featured in the ‘9 Ideas for Long Farm’ exhibition, explored the influence of iterative drawings and repetition to exploit the relationship between still life and object and its translation into architecture.

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Karen Russcher has been practicing Landscape Architecture and Master Planning for over 20 years in North Carolina and California. Karen has extensive experience in large-scale master planning including educational, recreation, and corporate campuses, as well as Streetscape and Mixed-use Urban Design projects. While in North Carolina, Karen was a principal with LandDesign and participated in many large-scale masterplanning projects in Charlotte as well as surrounding states. Karen’s love of the natural environment brought her to California, where she focused on sustainable design practices carefully incorporating best management practices that connect the built environment with the natural environment.

BRYAN SHIELDS / Part-Time Lecturer M.Arch. & Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Virginia.

Bryan Shields teaches 2nd and 3rd Year studio courses as well as upper level seminars discussing architecture and its relationship to context. Prior to teaching, Bryan worked on numerous urban infill housing projects in Charlotte, North Carolina and Lexington, Kentucky while with David Furman Architecture, now known as Axiom Architecture. He has taught upper level studio courses in critical exploration as well as seminar courses focused on the mapping of social and phenomenological contexts in order to better situate design in the site and community.

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HERB SPROTT / Part-Time Lecturer Bachelor of Environmental Design, Texas A&M. Herb Sprott is a registered architect and Director of Design with Hall Architects. As a former principal at Tobin + Dudley Architects and former Technical Director of The Freelon Group’s Charlotte office, Mr. Sprott brings experience in a wide variety of project types and sizes. Herb has taught several design studios focusing on the importance of materials, detailing and coordination in creating successful facilities.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS / Part-Time Lecturer B.Arch., University of Tennessee.

Michael Williams is a registered architect and principal at Liquid Design. Liquid Design is an innovative architectural firm noted for its distinctive approach and award winning projects. In 2009 Liquid Design received the AIA Design Honor Award and Sustainable Design Award for Celadon and an AIA Charlotte Honor Award for the Design of the U.S. National Whitewater Center in 2007.

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The Master of Architecture I (M.Arch. I) is the professional, threeyear graduate degree program leading to the NAAB-accredited Master of Architecture degree. The M.Arch. I program provides flexibility for students who have an undergraduate degree in a field other than architecture.

Students admitted to the M.Arch. I program complete a threeyear, 96-credit curriculum that begins in the second session of the summer semester.

In the first year of the M.Arch. I program, students acquire the fundamentals of visual and spatial design, conceptualization, problem solving, and material and environmental influences. In addition to design studio, students take introductory coursework in architectural history and theory, building technology, and representation.

In the second year, students join incoming M.Arch. II students to complete a curriculum consisting of a comprehensive architectural design project, an advanced graduate design studio coupled with courses in contemporary theory, building technology, computational methods, design methodology, and architectural electives.

In the third year, students complete an advanced graduate design studio and a research or design-based thesis, along with courses in architectural research, building technology, computational practices, professional practice and architectural electives.

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The studio incorporates a 4-day field trip to study and analyze buildings and places in their urban context.

Recent site visits include Charleston and Savannah.

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A 4-day field trip during SoA’s fall semester ‘field week’ to Chicago introduces students to seminal examples of 20th century modern architecture, including Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright, and a number of important cultural institutions, as well as the urban fabric and infrastructure of the city of Chicago. /

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Only when architecture, and in particular the dwelling, asserts a clear correspondence between the ground, its contextual circumstance, and a personal, experiential relationship with a site will the essential bridge between a home and its place in the world exist. A dwelling must be recognized as an integral link between humans and the world—serving as the relational structure between inhabitant and ground, connecting the human to the world.

This project seeks to identify the connections between dwellings and ground first through the examination of two existing dwelling conditions; the first, Le Corbusier’s Villa Le Lac on Lake Geneva, and the second, a slum housing typology located in the Spanish Quarter of Naples, Italy. Both studies led to an intervention designed to activate the connection between the dwelling and ground. For the final phase of this thesis, a more accessible site in Belmont, North Carolina has been selected, and successive measures of ground will ultimately lead to the design of a new dwelling condition, activated by the ground, able to connect its occupant to the greater world.

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Despite the intimacy between painting and architecture, there is little analysis covering their parallel practice. The objective of this course is to engage in a simultaneous investigation to reify their analogous process and to test the possibility of cross-referencing the criteria of evaluation of both.

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These processes on site may be historical, social, natural, legal, or cultural. However, this thesis focuses on human perception and the senses; it is about diagramming an empirical understanding of a site over time. The question of this thesis is: Is it possible for conventional methods of site analysis to be expanded to investigate site issues experientially on a human scale and over time?

This thesis uses Edward White’s method from his book, Site Analysis, as a baseline for conventional site analysis methods. The research then extends his ‘prototypical site issue’ list to develop a corpus of diagrams that represent site conditions which are experienced first-hand on a human scale and over time. Issues of diagramming, communicable graphics, perception, and dissemination are major points in this thesis.

The thesis is split in two parts: Sensing Site [Semester 2] and Site as a Function of Natural Recurrences [Semester 1]. The first semester involves broad questions of site, land, landscape, and time.

The second semester is a distillation of the first, with a specific focus on human scale, time based, experiential site analysis.

Within the second semester, there are three major sections: 1. An execution of Edward White’s site analysis method, 2. A human-scale, time based, experiential site analysis, and 3. A field guide, using the work from the previous two sections to produce a guide for design students to execute an experiential, human-scale, timebased site analysis.

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Core elements of the program are the chapel, columbarium and crematorium. This methodology explores architecture as an arrangement of objects. These relationships are arranged and recognized across all scales of the project. It is the acknowledgement of these correlations through specific activities and experiences that define the success of this investigation. Those experiences range from the ritual of burial to perhaps the less meaningful occupation of a neighboring resident traversing the grounds.

Fielding Sacred Ground is a formalist antidote to the modern practice that form follows function. Rather than using program to generate form, program is merely a means to evaluate formal explorations. Any inherent meaning of the program adopted by the architecture was not deliberate. The primary objective of this study was to generate an architectural intervention based on objectobject relationships among built form, site, and existing context.

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Out of this larger thesis question comes a secondary question which asks how can one intentionally articulate the tectonic moments between intervening and existing elements in such design interventions. Using a site in Belmont, NC, a series of design investigations were undertaken in order to explore these two primary questions.

The first investigation focused on documenting the existing built conditions found within the Belmont site.

At this point in the discourse, the role that archeology plays in generating a design response was the primary question.

A secondary question asks whether an intervention has the capacity to emerge or be drawn out from a site through a thorough understanding of a built site.

The second investigation questioned whether or not program could be used as a way to evaluate one intervention response over another. To begin investigating the role of program in the design intervention, two character types were developed. The intent was to test whether or not attributes found within a program definition could initiate a dialogue between program and site.

In the third investigation, three bridge designs aimed to question how the introduction of a new spatial relationship into the site impacts the development of the detailing of the bridge as it meets the floor levels of the existing built site.

In the last investigation, two clearly stated bridge design prompts were developed that provide a clear declaration of intent towards the existing built context.

The intent in this final phase of the thesis was to develop a method which clearly articulates the tectonic conditions between existing and intervening elements in a design intervention.

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Upon humanities tenacious path of progress there exists a paradoxical junction between architecture and biomimicry. Janine Benyus states that, “living things have done everything we want to do.” However, while this dogmatic tenet of the movement is based on sound logic it is not entirely inclusive with regard to architecture. Since, as established through this discourse, nature does not create buildings, nor does it create with intent. Therefore the implications of biomimetic principles to architecture necessitate methodological application that requires analysis and consideration beyond that required for other disciplines.

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Promenade and threshold are abstract terms that describe qualities of space. The threshold is a screen through which we pass, subtle at times and highly significant at others. It indicates physical distinction between the different spaces: inside/outside, public/private, air/land/ subterranean, etc. Threshold can be represented through series of constructed views, or moments of light juxtaposed with moments of darkness, or manipulated ground plane conditions. Thresholds are linked by promenade which establishes order of the spaces. Promenade can be described as a connector between constructed views, or as a concealed network of paths that link one environment to the other, or as an avenue between manipulated ground plane conditions.

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In addition to the spatial cues that are gathered as a result of our interactions with sound and space, the aural environment influences our associations, memories, and overall experience. Our internal experience of the external world can be greatly altered by what we hear and the way we hear it. The relationship that can be formed between the acoustic environment and ourselves is a powerful one, helping to construct a reality that is responsible for the way we experience the world around us. Despite the power of our aural perception, we are often unaware of the auditory events that occur around us and are even more unaware of the manner in which such events manipulate our experience of space. It is almost as if we only begin to notice sound in our environments once it becomes excessive and unwanted, thus what begins as sound becomes perceived as noise.

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This work seeks to negotiate this disparity between intangible and tangible conditions in both art and architecture, to counteract the dominance of visual stimuli in our environments, and to promote the use of sonic effects in the shaping of architectural space. The work began with an exercise in the design+fabrication of a wearable device intended to manipulate existing anatomical auditory conditions, which in turn directly manipulates one’s experience of the space in which the devices are worn.

The intention of subsequent phases of the investigation focused on implementing those lessons learned from the device testing and fabrication – in the form of an installation that serves to condense the sonic qualities of the surrounding urban environment in which the piece is sited. This intervention provides an experience of sensorial clarity that gives prominence to auditory cues as a way of forming one’s experience of architectural space and the larger context of the urban sonic milieu. The finalized installation piece is a dual-skinned structure of folded sheet steel [used for its inherent resonance] in between which are a series of listening tubes, located and dimensioned in order to provide auditory access to out-lying sound sources.

The resulting soundspace collapses the larger auditory environment so that it is able to be experienced from within the boundaries of the space, but more importantly the space itself articulates for all listeners, a distinct and particular awareness of the everyday aural environment.

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The M.U.D. Program is located in the University’s Center City Building in downtown Charlotte, adjacent to the city’s light rail line. Planned travel programs include cities in China and Europe.

The Master of Urban Design (M.U.D.) program is an applied research and design degree. It is structured to prepare beginning and mid-career design and planning professionals to engage complex issues faced by contemporary towns and cities in America, particularly those postindustrial landscapes that are being reshaped by information technology, / global capital movements, rapidly shifting demographics, soaring urban and suburban growth, and new environmental challenges of sustainable development. The program takes the Charlotte metropolitan region as its laboratory while simultaneously examining issues of national and global import. The Design+Society Research Center provides a point of contact for students to engage in funded research projects with the faculty.

The premise of the M.U.D. program is that urban design is a fusion of physical design, policy and implementation strategies. It mediates the professional disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development and engineering that together structure our urban environment, and constructs collaborations between these specialists and the citizens affected by urban development. Urban design students are challenged to explore their role as active and informed participants in the multi-constituent process of transforming cities.

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Urban Design Studio_G/Advanced 03 focuses on site-specific projects and emphasizes methods of speculative research and design as well as technological and systemic issues of sustainability in urban environments. This course pursues a directed research and design agenda that vary according to faculty interest, expertise and/or project requirements.

The final studio in the three-semester sequence is divided into two parts. The first part is a 5-week travel and design intensive study abroad experience held during Summer Session I. The second part is a 5-week intensive studio held on-campus, at the Center City Building, during Summer Session II, allowing students to develop their design initiated in Summer Session I. The rise of mass urbanization in China has recently served as the locus of study during the third semester of the M.U.D. Program. Students traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing and Suzhou as part of this study. /

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Increasingly, architects are called upon to operate in settings that require an understanding of different cultures and languages. The opportunity to study abroad provides future architects with a competitive advantage in an increasingly globalized milieu. The SoA has a strong tradition of providing students with a variety of study abroad options.

Following one’s second year of study, students may enroll in a range of programs that are offered every summer. These programs are four to five weeks in length, and typically consist of a pair of three credit electives and history courses. Over the past four years, we have run programs in Rome, Italy, and Shanghai/Beijing, China.

The School of Architecture also has a longstanding relationship with Brian Mackay-Lyons’ Ghost studio, an intensive two-week design-build workshop in Nova Scotia that takes place every June.

The school also offers an opportunity for students to study abroad during the regular academic year. UNC Charlotte has several longstanding student exchange programs in England, The Netherlands, Mexico, Finland, Belgium, and Germany. Typically, these exchange programs allow two or three fourth year architecture students to study abroad during the spring semester, with extensive possibilities for personal travel and research.

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