WORK BY THE CLASS OF 2016
FINAL PERSPECTIVES
To the Class of 2017 – Congratulations on your success. We at IMPRINT. are proud of all that you have acheived these past years. You have managed to graduate with a design degree, not a feat to be taken lightly. There have been countless all-nighters, countless cups of coffee, countless Einstein’s bagels, and countless encounters with insanity. Truly, you have inspired those who have come to know you and will not be forgotten in these concrete halls. We would like to recognize your work in these following pages as a final gift to you from the College of Architecture and Design. We hope you will be able to look through these pages fondly for years to come and reminesce of your time at the Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville. The IMPRINT. administration would like to once again congratualte you on all of your acheivements and wish you luck in your future endeavors. – IMPRINT.
erin collins lauren ferguson geneva frank jessica hedgepeth meggie herod vivian mccann erin mclevey maddie mitchell tatum rumsey sydney spears amanda webb
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The Interior Design Program facilitates learning that produces interior design professionals skilled as life-long learners. An environment is created at the University of Tennessee where individuals can develope their ability to apply design thinking with integrity resulting in creative and purposeful interior environments. Intellectual curiosity and acquisition of technical knowledge that informs the design and research of interior environments are essential aspects of learning. Collaboration with programs in the College of Architecture and Design, disciplines at The University of Tennessee, and regional and world communities is a foundation activity giving reference and meaning to the practice of design. The interior design faculty provides excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship, and service to the Program, University, region, and world communities.
ERIN COLLINS ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
GUIDANCE THROUGH SOUND
LAWSON MCGHEE LIBRARY _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
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Imagine living life without your vision. Your whole world would be changed; from the way you eat to the way you walk, the way you learn to the way you have relationships. Those born without sight are accustomed to these difficulties, but those who later become blind or who only have partial vision have to adjust daily to living a lifestyle in a world that does not cater to them. How can design help a body of people such as the visually impaired? To better understand this concept, this studio took a trip to the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville. Through interaction with the students, I learned that sound is an important indicator of space and surroundings to a person lacking sight. They know when they have reached a certain intersection in the building simply because the sound of tapping their cane or the echo of voices changes. I wanted to use this premise to create an interior layered with pockets of sound that guide one from space to space. Consequentially, one can see that in section, the building for the proposed Knoxville Center for the Visually Impaired, becomes a carved and porous form in order to allow for the passage and harnessing of different sounds between floor levels. This, combined with surface textures, allows a visually impaired person to learn these nodes and paths in order to better guide themselves throughout the space.
LAUREN FERGUSON ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
DERIVATIVE TRAILS | FOUND TERRITORIES KNOXVILLE CENTER FOR THE BLIND _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
The main goal of this project was to study texture and allow those forms to create large scale interior spaces. My specific study was based on transparency and the movement of light and heat through different materials and spaces themselves.
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The result was a phenomenal interior scheme that will be easily navigated by the sighted and non-sighted.
GENEVA FRANK ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
DERIVATIVE TRAILS | FOUND TERRITORIES LAWSON MCGHEE LIBRARY _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
Spatial experiences are stimulated by a number of sensory elements.
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The design of the Knoxville Outreach Center for the Blind engages in a tactile exploration of space and materiality. The design challenges the natural tendency to rely on visual cues instead of incorporating haptic, auditory and tactile conditions as well. The design exhibits a holistic approach that engages new formal ideas informed and reformed by the palette of senses. The limits of boundaries influence the design of the Outreach Center. A single floor texture can transform into an obstruction such as a railing or a wall in order to guide the occupants throughout the entire space.
MEGGIE HEROD ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
DERIVATIVE TRAILS// FOUND TERRITORIES RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE BLIND _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
The goal of this Research Center for the Blind project was to study how sound can have major effects on a space. I developed a continuous form that allows sound to travel through the center in major public areas, and blocks off more private areas.
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An extensive study of sound, texture, and materiality have guided me in the creation of this project.
VIVIAN MCCANN ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
DERIVATIVE TRAILS// FOUND TERRITORIES LAWSON MCGHEE LIBRARY _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
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[Derivative Trails//Found Territories: other spaces between the innate and the acquired: using sound for wayfindind] is an interior design strategy generated in the absence of one of the most relied upon of sensory stimuli: vision. In design, we commonly assume that the user will see the space, then occupy it and we design according to this sequence. However, through the design of an outreach center for the blind and visually impaired, we examined the possibilities inherent in utilizing other perceptual and sensational modes of occupying space that break our ocular bias and dependency. We were to design spaces that are both physically and experimentally accessible to occupants with and without disabilities. I used sound for wayfinding in the main areas of the building. These spaces either amplifies or diffuses the sound depending on the program or the area of the building.
ERIN MCLEVEY ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
KNOXVILLE CENTER FOR THE BLIND DOWNTOWN _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
This semester, designing a resource center for the blind community in Knoxville, TN, we had to study how blind people use their other senses to move around a space. I studied how both texture and light can create contrast in a space, and people who are visually impaired can use these sensory cues to navigate through the resource center I designed. A wire mesh screen that snakes through the entire building helps people by allowing them to feel along the texture to navigate around the building.
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Designing any space requires a lot of research and understanding of what the needs of the client are; however, when designing for a group of people who are differently abled, a designer has to learn and deeply understand how a group will interact and use the space.
MADDIE MITCHELL ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
LAWSON MCGHEE LIBRARY _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
My project investigates how to create a spatial identity through circulation and movement patterns. When I learned that we would be designing for people with visual impairment, I was most intrigued to understand the many strategies on how they way find through space.
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When moving, it is crucial to gauge the surrounding environment and the sensory cues that are present. In my project I proposed to identify place through the gradual incline of the ground plane, and the audible experience through a series of pathways and screening system.
TATUM RUMSEY ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
DERIVATIVE TRAILS
LAWSON MCGHEE LIBRARY _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
Designing for commercial interiors is to design in a way that is versatile and helpful for the public. This project takes that idea to a new level. The scope of this design is a resource center for the visually impaired.
This resource center for the visually impaired takes design to places past aesthetics more so than a typical project. Designing for all senses is something that should be applied to every project for it is beneficial to all. Beginning the design thinking about how all of the senses work together brought fourth the idea of how great cities work. As Kevin Lynch describes in Image of the City, a great city has consistency. Lynch also takes notes of landmarks which create nodes that separate the repetition in a way that gives each zone of a city surrounding a landmark its own identity. This idea inspired the way-finding system of this resource center. From that idea came a system of consistency contrasting with a system of inconsistency much like topography. Topography is defined as “1) the arrangement of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.” and “2) the distribution of parts or features on the surface of or within an organ or organism.” This lead to stripping the existing building down to its structure and applying a topography within that gridded column system. Thus, the way finding system works in a way that provides people with an element of consistency so that the area is never overwhelming, and the contrasting system provides landmarks that appeal to more senses than only sight. This is vital in wayfinding and often overlooked and replaced with signage that is not so helpful to everyone.
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This project began as a material study which emphasized thinking about sensory encounters other than vision, material properties and how the properties affect what is around them, and structural systems of which the material was constructed. This part of the project led to a system for the design of the building.
SYDNEY SPEARS ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
DERIVATIVE TRAILS//FOUND TERRITORIES LAWSON MCGHEE LIBRARY _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
The intention of this project is to develop a resource center for the blind community within Knoxville.
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This should be a space the blind will be able to enjoy spatially and experientially, rather than merely moving along the edges of spaces.
BRETT WHITWORTH ADVANCED INTERIOR DESIGN
STUDIO _ RANA ABUDAYYEH
DERIVATIVE TRAILS/ FOUND TERRITORIES LAWSON MCGHEE LIBRARY _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
Design’s Inevitable dialogue with haptic, thermal manipulation, and tactile conditions is the central focus of this project.
I challenged the natural predisposition to read and design spaces relying heavily on visual cues and stimuli in favor of a more complex and holistic approach that engages new formal ideas informed and reformed by a totality of sensation.
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Building on the first project in which I designed material and textural iterations, project two was aimed to engaged innovative interior strategies that function within diverse perceptual modalities.
ryan ballek paul bamson david berry kenna cajka dillon canfield irene chang angela claeys macy clower cayce david taylor dotson peter giddings mubarak hauter brice holmes sierra jensen kelsey julian casey kuntz christina lulich hannah margush trevor mayes keely mcdonald joshua parsley brittany peters alexis porten gina raffanti BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
allison randall blake roberts nate ryman macvan scott amy st. john jerry sullivan emily threadgill hunter todd
The School of Architecture offers a five-year Bachelor of Architecture, which is fully accredited by the National Architecture Accreditation Board (NAAB).
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Established in 1965, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s School or Architecture was one of the first new architecture programs founded in the U.S. following the Great Depression. It has been the top-ranked architecture program in Tennessee since. Here, architecture is approached as an education dedicated to an intelligent, critically aware and sustainable approach to innovative action in architectural design.
PAUL BAMSON ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE II _ GALE FULTON
AUGMENTED WILD
SHARP’S RIDGE _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE ‘Virtual wildness The waves are all around us Just pay attention’
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This project proposes the creation of new cultural territories in the space between the real and the virtual. These territories are achieved by leveraging an existing infrastructure of Cell Towers – an infrastructure that enables the transmission and translation of massive amounts of data essential to our modern communication. This communication is achieved via a range of radio waves, a Latent Geography, which is invisible and intangible but present nonetheless. Capitalizing on this latency, the project translates and makes tangible the Virtual geographies of radio, sound, and light waves to heighten the Physical geographies of slope, water and material flow which are always present on the site but which are not necessarily fully perceived. This overlay process defines Hybrid Territorial Zones of wildness along Sharp’s Ridge in Knox County. Functionally, the project explores the intersections between the physical and the virtual enabled by the infrastructure of the cell tower and antennas that relay data and modify these hybrid territories, creating a new Augmented Wild. The Augmented Wild then responds and adapts to the external influences of these changing geographies. These hybrid territories defining the Augmented Wild respond to the various frequency demands on cell towers driven by the activity of the users around it. Serving as infrastructure allowing for the direct interface between the users and the zones, the Augmented Wild creates a Landscape of Event. This infrastructure is inherently open sourced, providing the ingredients for agents of change to Hijack the system – Hacking the frequencies in which the system is dependent.
DAVID BERRY ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SELF DIRECTED THESIS _ SCOTT WALL
BERLIN: BORDER CONTROL BERLIN, GERMANY
The trajectory of Berlin as a city that has been directed by the advent of borders. Most predominately was the construction of the Berlin Wall, more than just an instrument of control, but an instrument of despair. Its zone of control was far-reaching as it snaked its way through the urban fabric of Berlin. Zooming in, there were eight border crossings that allowed passage through the wall. The border crossing acted as a bridge, gate, or opening that broke the infinite nature of the wall.
My project trenches into this existing station, the opposite of building a wall. This trenching creates visual connections amongst the levels of transit and the trenching is bridged by the central circulation of the station. The free-standing columns are highlighted and mark the existing location of the division. As one moves through the station they constantly cross this border in unexpected ways and begin to reinhabit the zone of division that was void of life in the past. Because of this cut, surveillance is now celebrated in a place that compresses the borders we erect between groups of people.
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There was one such border crossing that did not occur at the physical wall. The wall was literally recreated at FriedrichstraĂ&#x;e Bahnhof, a railway station in central Berlin that simultaneously permitted East and West German transit. With the fall of the iron curtain, this wall was removed in the station and full access was allowed.
DILLON CANFIELD ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
DIPLOMA STUDIO _ SCOTT WALL AND MARK STANLEY
SOMEWHERE IN THE 21ST CENTURY NO LOCATION
This is an attempt to understand and stratify the flow of objects and information in the domestic setting. I believe that the currents of these flows are the basis through which domestic space (and our perception of domestic space) is altered. My interests are in the subtle plays of labor and control at work in our appliances, liminal objects of consumerism, and the contradictory means we employ to assert ourselves as ‘masters’ of space.
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Our simultaneous embrace and fear of change in the home creates a condition of camouflage, masquerade, and hidden motives that technologies must navigate to be accepted. Amidst these feints within feints, is where I believe the evolution of space begins- more as a catalyst of the milieu of things and bits we are exposed to, opposed to large isolated shifts.
PETER GIDDINGS ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
DIPLOMA STUDIO _ MARK STANLEY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF VIRTUALIZATION AND ACTUALIZATION OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY RESERVATION
When I visited the X-10 Graphite Reactor, the experience I had looking back at once was the latest and greatest technology was incredible. I wanted to re-create that feeling for students of architecture 80 years from now. I am designing a project that would be the latest and greatest thing now and used as a historic precedent in the future.
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Virtualization and actualization are processes that create a dialogue between a tangible reality and a virtual reality. In simple terms, they are 3D printers and scanners; however, these processes occur at the subatomic level through high levels of radiation. Every subatomic particle would be scanned and re-created in another location. Due to the high draw of power involved, a secondary program is the lightning reactor. Each bolt of lightning contains 30k amps and up to one billion volts. This translates to about 30 million megawatts. This could power New York City for 2-3 years.
MUBARAK HAUTER ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
DIPLOMA STUDIO _ JOHN MCRAE
COMPOUND CENTER
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CLAY COUNTY, KENTUCKY
SIERRA JENSEN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SELF DIRECTED THESIS _SCOTT WALL
MEDIATED ELSEWHERES
TIMES SQUARE _ NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
What happens at the intersection of the mediated frame + direct experience?
The frame acts as the membrane between this and that, here and there, past and present and you and I. More contemporarily, however, the frame is a membrane between our physical and virtual identities. Exploring this theme of co-existing dualities, the program will exist as both a hotel and a research + data center for a media outlet within Times Square. As the function of the hotel will be mediated through the app, there becomes a dialogue between the hotel being a temporary home for our physical selves, while the data storage acts as a permanent home for the virtual self. The multiplicity of the spectacle is inevitable. The amount of images we process daily with these instruments has created an impatience with the rhythmic legato of everyday life. Today we are grappling with changes in the interactions between man and image, which in turn questions our interactions between man + man. This thesis seeks to explore the existential engagements between man + instrument, as well as man + environment.
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The frame wins in the battle for attention. Mediated Elsewheres began through an interest in the language and evolution of the frame and what is captured within that frame. Through time, society has had a captivation with the collapsing of space and time arguably more so than our directly lived environment. Through the evolution of our framed mediums--from painting, photograph, film and now to the iPhone--we have been consumed from the still image to the moving image and now to the haptic rapidity of many overlapping images. The evolution of the framed image has followed our roles in society. With the development of the symbol, we became a society of listeners and speakers. With the development of the printing press, we became a society of consumers and readers. With the emergence of technology, we became a society of publishers, archivists and self-exhibitionists. We are habitually more drawn to the ambient reality than to what is directly lived.
KELSEY JULIAN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
DIPLOMA STUDIO _ SCOTT WALL AND ANDY GODWIN
AQUAFILLIA: THE PLASTIC COLONY AWAY _ THE NORTH PACIFIC GYRE
This day begins with fair to moderate weather. At 10 a.m. there is another sighting. Recovery vessel is deployed at approximately 10:18 a.m. Debris extracted by 10:53 a.m. It appears to be a piece of green nylon netting. Samples collected on site and sent to lab for further testing. Trawl 72 28.8968° N 162.5828° W
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344 < 5mm 139 > 5mm *small fish caught in sampling trawl – plastic found in stomach upon dissection **there is something about the weightlessness of the ocean. the buoyant body that drifts in equilibrium. where horizon becomes the mirror, you can finally disassociate. the duplication of self embodies this otherness of voyage. in that brackish salt-slap specks of white of blue of black scatter across soft swells where nets tangle a tattered lot of pieces and plastics.
CASEY KUNTZ ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS _ MARK DEKAY
RAD HOMES
RIVER ARTS DISTRICT _ ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
The increasingly higher cost for city housing is driving designs to be of smaller size and higher densityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; all challenges to the romance of American housing and to net-zero performance archetypes. Salient features of the complex include 3 story housing raised above the flood plain over parking. The facade is integrated with renewable resources. The design highlights hybrid direct gain passive solar with passive/hybrid fresh air preheat/ cool. Using courtyards and exterior balconies, our goal is to connect to the river and the greenway. Using sustainable strategies to keep loads down is important, and we also believe having the strategies be visible, or showcased, is also important. By doing this we can educate people on new technologies and get people excited about eco-friendly living.
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Flat, inexpensive low density sites are vanishing in cities across the country. This project explores affordable net-zero housing on a typical urban site in the River Arts District of Asheville, NC: a large open site in the flood plain.
CHRISTINA LULICH ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SELF DIRECTED THESIS _ SCOTT WALL
EXCESS CAPACITY: SHARED SPACE POSSIBILITIES IN AN E-COMMERCIAL SUBURBIA
For all of documented history, commercial and social interactions have coincided in the same spaces, largely because commercial transactions have always required that people physically meet, verbally communicate, and exchange physical property. E-commerce is the first platform that allows commercial transactions to occur completely distinct from social, and I believe this will significantly shape the future of suburban social spaces. As the shift continues away from the physical shopping experience and toward a completely digital one, my question is, what is the nature of the spaces in which we will find social fulfillment?
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This project explores possibilities presented by these entities: food and entertainment, e-commercial, delivery, housing, and virtual reality entities. The exploration seeks to re-envision shared spaces and discover opportunities for new design typologies.
ALEXIS PORTEN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SELF DIRECTED THESIS _ BRIAN AMBROZIAK AND SCOTT WALL
INVISIBLE BORDERS AND FROZEN TIDAL WAVES: MEASURING RAPID STILLNESS STEINGLETSCHER _ THE SWISS ALPS
to reduce it down to the simplest formal moves, a glacier is built slowly and in silence. each layer builds upon the layer of the moment before. while there must be an underlying structure that is relatively stable [stein/stone], that structure will reveal itself in the outermost skin of the glacier. the thinnest sheet of ice, the newest tree ring, is really just a revolved impression of the mountain beneath. the form is built of itself and within itself.
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to build something of the ice, holding the ice, keeping the ice safe beneath the layers, that is how the glacier acts. and in turn, that is how the natural landscape works. this rapidly still movement of veil and re-veil is as consistent as frozen ice that is releasing ancient air. consistent in definition but not without the fragility of time. the fragility of the human.
NATE RYMAN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SELF DIRECTED THESIS _ SCOTT WALL
EXUDING THE SHELL OF RECOLLECTION INSTALLATION
The intention of my thesis is to give form to memory, the basis for personal identity and inspiration.
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My approach is to exude the architecture much like ‘the mollusk exudes its shell’. In order to do so, I inverted the typical process of inhabitation by designing from a memory associated to an object. The architecture I am attempting to access with this project doesn’t exist in any physical realm. Rather, the built construct is intended only as a facilitator for daydream. Each collage is meant incite a recollection of fragments through the combination and juxtaposition of images and objects. This serves as the basis for an architecture of memories within the waking dreams of an individual.
EMILY THREADGILL ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SELF DIRECTED THESIS _ SCOTT WALL
TRACES OF TIME
HADRIANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WALL _ NORTHUMBERLAND NATIONAL PARK, ENGLAND
The proposal is to activate the space along the wall, and engage the inhabitants of the space by creating a series of markers across the landscape. These markers hold the purpose of identifying ways of moving across the land and creating moments of interaction between people and places, while creating a new systematic approach to building along the wall. Through activation, engagement, and interaction between people and places, the markers will bring back life to the once vibrant culture of the wall while respecting the current value of the place.
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The project began with interests in evolving spaces over time, and more specifically, the spaces that become obsolete, neglected, and forgotten. This thesis deals with the question of how to properly activate and engage these spaces to fit the needs of the current inhabitants, while respecting the programmatic pieces and elements of the past that still make their mark on the landscape.
HUNTER TODD ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
SELF DIRECTED THESIS _ SCOTT WALL
WEATHERING
CANDORO MARBLE FACILITIES _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
This thesis recognizes the fact that the total design is not complete at the end of construction. It is an ongoing process that lasts decades if not centuries into the future. From the birth of modernism, the purity of form has been set above the pragmatism of the rustic arch. Architects are taught to understand their projects as if new - with brilliantly polished surfaces and clean, unaltered lines. The outcome of this thesis is not to produce a shiny, new project, but one that is projected decades in to the future - one that is constantly growing, maturing, and expanding. A project that has been altered by time.
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The site is one already urban in nature- the Candoro Marble fabrication warehouses. It is located South of the River in Knoxville TN in the Vestal community. Historically, the marble quarried at the various locations around Knoxville was transported to this site for cutting and polishing. Today these structures, which are on the historic registry, are sitting idle â&#x20AC;&#x201C; left to erode away. The goal of this thesis is not to preserve the current state of these structures but rather to appropriate their materials over a length of time to form new architecture which dwells within their remains. As these buildings degenerate, their skins of wood and sheet metal will be removed and re-appropriated to form new spaces of dwelling â&#x20AC;&#x201C; creating spaces for a sustainable future. The program takes the form of a recycling center and surrounding mixed-use development. One where live in artists and designers take material waste from demolition sites and through the use of on-site fabrication laboratories, turn these materials into useful or artfully crafted products. This community lives and works in a facility dedicated to the incubation of these up and coming businesses.
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jennifer aplin adam buchanan hunter byrnes justin dothard nicole drelich rebecca gillogly justin hare daniel hodge kevin jeffers samyucktha kadiresan ethan keller khris kirk haley moore jessica porter denver sells allison summers mark traylor robert truka
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kimberly wojcik
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The Master of Architecture program is a NAAB-accredited, professional degree in architecture, which qualifies the graduate to sit for the Architects Registration Exam in the USA. This academic plan culminates in either a written/design Thesis or in a Diploma Studio. The program is designed to accommodate students who come from a variety of backgrounds, including those with no previous formal study in architecture.
ADAM BUCHANAN MASTERS THESIS _ BRIAN AMBROZIAK THESIS COMMITTEE: JENNIFER AKERMAN AND BEAUVAIS LYONS
CULINARY BIOLOGIQUE AND CARTOGRAPHIC ANXIETY
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – LEBANON, TENNESSEE
The 21st century’s most dominant characteristic, and greatest challenge, is the explosive growth of the world’s population. Swelling at an exponential rate, the increasing physical distance between the acts of growth and consumption yields an agrarian system that is highly unsustainable… a crisis looms in the future!
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This crisis is most easily detected in images of the Earth taken from satellites. These recently recorded pixels of reflected light allow for a cherished Icarian vantage point gained and perfected over the past five decades. Ultimately, these lightning speed revelations show patterns that emerge as broken relationships that can be manipulated by the screenprinting process to yield even greater readings. The focus of this investigation is on the image that is attacked from numerous angles so as to generate roots for many unexpected architectural outcomes. The chosen site is the stretch of the Nashville and Eastern Railroad from downtown Nashville, Tennessee to Lebanon, Tennessee. This thesis explores the site through a series of images that are reformulated to emphasize relationships between individual pixels. By addressing the pixels themselves, a set of alternatives are offered that are directly related to the image and begin to reformulate our connection to the landscape. These alternatives are explored and then valued against the initial set of visual constructs.
NICOLE DRELICH MASTERS THESIS _ HANSJOERG GOERITZ THESIS COMMITTEE: AVIAGAIL SACHS AND JASON YOUNG
RIVER | MACHINE: A BALCONY FOR THE CITY KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
This project is a study of the effects that the TVA development has had on the urbanism of Knoxville, specifically as it relates to the riverfront. Additionally, this project aims to create opportunities for Knoxville to grow in a new direction, engaging the Tennessee River and the South bank of the river.
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This project studies the relationship between the river and the city as a machine for growth, and therefore encompasses a large range of sites from UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus to downtown Knoxville.
REBECCA GILLOGLY MASTERS THESIS _ JENNIFER AKERMAN THESIS COMMITTEE: JAMES ROSE AND AVIGAIL SACHS
VOLATILE DOMESTICITY
A RANGE OF TERRITORIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
Architecture exits within a Myth of Permanence. I seek to destabilize this myth with an addition of a Volatile Domesticity; a system of living that is unstable in nature. Through itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instability, it seeks to break apart the illusion of permanence of the built environment and our relationship to it.
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The Myth of Permanence is the pervading myth that what we build, who we are, and where we stand are permanent, unchanging facts that continue through time indefinitely. The Myth can be exemplified in monuments we never imagined could crumble, thirty year mortgages, divorce rates, and the demolition of buildings with tons of materials sent to landfills. The Myth of Permanence has started to be broken down in other fields, but architecture clings to this Myth as a life preserver. In some ways architecture fears its own obsolescence if it were to embrace the impermanence. But I do not believe this to be the case; architects have the power to break free of this Myth and position themselves prominently in the design of an unstable future. I want to provide a counter to the notion that architecture has to be heavy, expensive, and permanent.
KHRIS KIRK MASTERS THESIS _ KATHERINE AMBROZIAK THESIS COMMITTEE: JOHN MCRAE AND JAMES ROSE
COMMEMORATIVE LANDSCAPES: URGE TO REMEMBER, PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT THE TRAIL OF TEARS_ TENNESSEE – OKLAHOMA
Within this Thesis project, I have taken the design objectives of a contemporary commemorative landscape and explored these ideas through the Trail of Tears. I have explored it on multiple scales, viewing the Northern Route as a whole and exploring three select intervention sites along the Northern Route. I’ve chosen Charleston, TN; Berry’s Ferry, Kentucky; and Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Each of these sites have a similar theme of boundaries and crossings, which was the basis for each design. From there I have overlaid historical context and Cherokee symbolism to help strengthen the commemorative landscape design. Overall, it is about the experience of a person within each landscape and the dialogue it has with the whole Northern Route, while involving local communities and the Cherokee Nation.
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From the time of George Washington’s presidency through that of Andrew Jackson, the American government promoted the removal of the Cherokee and other Native Americans to Oklahoma. During 1838 and 1839, more than 16,000 Cherokee men, women, and children were forcibly moved from their homes in the southern Appalachian Mountains to stockades and internment camps, after which they walked hundreds of miles to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). The harsh conditions led to a high rate of illness, widespread desertion, and hundreds of deaths. A quarter to one-half of the Cherokee population perished during the removal, along the trail, and in the first year in Oklahoma. Because of these events, the routes become known as the “Trail of Tears.”
JESSICA PORTER MASTERS THESIS _ TRACY MOIR-MCCLEAN THESIS COMMITTEE: JAMES ROSE AND JASON YOUNG
MUTUALISM: A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LICHENS AND LAVA HEIMAEY, ICELAND
Designing an impermanent architecture that envisions the controllable and the uncontrollable through relationships of mutualism. Icelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heimaey Island is populated by approximately 4800 inhabitants.
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The islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main industries are fishing and tourism, both of which depend on the harbor on the northeast side of the island. Keeping the harbor accessible is essential to these industries. On January 23, 1973 at 2 am, Eldfell Volcano erupted without any warning. A 1.25 mile fissure had ripped open overnight leaving a great scar on the northeast side of the island, spewing magma until April of 1973. By March, the lava flows had destroyed a third of the town, approximately 400 homes. Protecting the harbor became top priority as the flows were creeping dangerously towards it. Finally, a sea-water pumping system was implemented to re-direct the lava away from the harbor. After almost losing the harbor to the 1973 eruption, measures need to be taken to protect the harbor from future eruptions. For the purpose of this thesis, I have designed a lava diversion system that will fail slowly and divert a potential future eruption east away from the harbor and town. This architectural design was formulated through mutualism.
DENVER SELLS MASTERS THESIS _ HANSJOERG GOERITZ
THESIS COMMITTEE: AVIGAIL SACHS AND TK DAVIS
CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTUAL DESIGN IN A HISTORIC URBAN FABRIC CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
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An analysis and synthesis of what makes contemporary architectural design successful in the context of the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina
ALLISON SUMMERS MASTERS THESIS _ JOHN MCRAE THESIS COMMITTEE: AVIGAIL SACHS AND JENNIFER AKERMAN
ACTIVATING THE EDGE | DEFRAGMENTING THE CITY OF ATLANTA ATLANTA, GEORGIA
This thesis focuses on the separation of communities within the urban landscape as a result of the natural growth and expansion of the city, exploring the role architecture and design can play in promoting connectivity between communities.
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Using Atlanta as a case study, more specifically the BeltLine, this project utilizes programming that is accessible to all, providing the opportunity for greater social connectivity within the city.
KIMBERLY WOJCIK MASTERS THESIS _ JOHN MCRAE THESIS COMMITTEE: KATHERINE AMBROZIAK AND MARLENE DAVIS
GRA[IN]VINCIBLE BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Gra[in]vincible is about stitching together a fragmented community in a post-industrial context. This project creates a conversation about the past, present, and future of industrial sites and adjacent worker housing.
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The goal is to create an opportunity for revitalization of the site while remaining conscious of the social and economic status of the community. It aims at penetrating through implied and physical borders to create a conscious fluidity using green space, visual connectivity, public and semi-public space, and local participation.
yu chen kate choi zachary hunter rebecca rainey
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luis venegas brenes
As a partnership between the College of Architecture and Design and the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offers a dynamic educational and research environment, Our program positions its students and faculty to address contemporary issues facing landscapes and communities of our region, our state, and those posed to the broader profession of landscape architecture.
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At the University of Tennessee, we believe that the role of landscape architecture is to steward our natural resources and integrate the experience and performance of natural and constructed place into the design of healthy communities and memorable landscapes.
YU CHEN MASTERS THESIS _ JUSTINE HOLZMAN
LIVING LAB
CHEROKEE FARM _ KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
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Recently, the global climate change influents peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life with its ripple effects, such as food web disruptions, range shifts, extinction risks etc. In this studio, we focus on sustainable and resilient landscape design, which responds to the anticipated climate change. The Tennessee Valley Region has the highest concentration of scientists, engineers and PhDs, because of the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Project in early 1930s. The Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is playing important role in the scientific research and regional technology development. This technology including nuclear tech, energy methods, new material, aerospace technology, biotech changed peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and the landscape at TN Valley Region. My project target to propose the Cherokee Farm as the living lab for the ORNL. The most recent landscape technologies could be tested on the farm for a potential future impact on the region. On the site, I recommended a system combing with biotech wastewater treatment plant with bioenergy plant. At the same time, the public display of research will attract people come and enjoy the landscape on the site. The aim of the system is using the less energy to do most things. The last but not the least, people could better understand future trend from the living laboratory,
KATE CHOI MASTERS THESIS _ GALE FULTON THESIS COMMITTEE: BRAD COLLETT AND JON HATHAWAY
PUBLIC STORMWATER MANAGEMENT WITH GREEN STREETS KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
The evaluations and ratings is to provide insights from already established programs. It aims to provide strategy based recommendations for cities like Knoxville on how to develop and execute its own green street program. A demonstration design is shown to reveal how green street retrofit would look in an existing street in Knoxville.
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This thesis evaluates one of the recent phenomena in landscape architecture and stormwater management called green streets. It looks into existing green streets program around the North American region, and have identified what it is that categorize them as exemplary based on a rating system set forth by the matrix created for the thesis.
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