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The editorial board of IMPRINT. would like to congratulate the students henceforth featured. Through this publication, we hope to celebrate the capstone projects of the 2014 graduates and the diverse personalities and interests that they represent. As these graduates’ time at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design comes to a close, we wish them the best in future endeavors and hope that this book will serve as a small token by which to remember the college as they embark on the paths they’ve chosen.
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Founded by students in January 2013, IMPRINT. is a print and online publication series that seeks to expand and encourage discourse in the design fields. By showcasing student work, we hope to ignite conversation and spark increased interest in the issues addressed by students. IMPRINT. seeks to broaden the understanding of the work produced in the College of Architecture and Design, its place in the past, its impact on the present and its influence on the future.
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monica cota theresa kidwell amy poland
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samantha stein
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Interior Design Program maintains a legacy of excellence in the sciences and applications of design as the leader of interior design education in Tennessee. The program provides a foundation for the practice of design, collaboration, innovation and growth as a professional. The result of four years of study is the Bachelor of Science in Interior Design, a professionally accredited degree from the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.
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Interior Design | Undergraduate
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THERESA KIDWELL Intergenerational Living: Appalachia, Clay County, Kentucky
ADVISORS: John McRae and David Matthews
The mission of the project developed from the need for emergency aid in the Appalachian area of Clay County Kentucky due to geological hazards such as
the transitional housing, the project includes an assisted living home to serve community center, a greenhouse and a greenway/park, this project promotes
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The transitional houses are grouped in pairs along the boardwalk with one 2 bed 1 ½ bath house sharing the widened boardwalk space off of their porch with
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in the houses are neutral so that they might be receptive to anyone who might About 90% of the furniture provided in the homes is to be contracted out to Berea
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SAMANTHA STEIN Appalachian Community Development
ADVISORS: John McRae, David Matthews
The goal of the Appalachian Community Development project was to create and
provided an alternate living option for younger and older generations that may
family deeply rooted in each move so that the spaces that were created would our site circulation towards the church, connecting the residents to the land by blurring the line between the interior and exterior spaces and creating effective community spaces which were placed organically on the site, this community
porch so that during the milder months occupants can take advantage of natural
church, a soaring ceiling with natural wood exposed beams leads to a skylight
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The space is neutral so the occupant can personalize their own spaces and have
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haley allen halie anderson farshad ashouri leah baker jack beckham jenny budde robert capps breanna carlton ben chandler meredith cheatham reid cimala christina clouthier chelsea cole collin cope daniel cremin tabitha darko andrea diamante dustin durham ezra elam jordan etters marion forbes kaloyan getev igor gorolyuk cory griffis stephen guertin whitney hackett karen harber shane harris
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geoffrey hillstead
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gerry hogsed robert huber erin jennings wilson kessel claire kistler andrew lakatosh rachel murdaugh richard murray rushika patel timothy pierce christian powers blake rambo bhenjamin reed sarah reindl william rowland jamie schlenker zachary schultz shaina seabolt sergey shutt max slifka alex stinchcomb sherif sugiyama vernon taylor patrick tormeno michael turpin michael wasyliw walker westbrook stephanie wilds daniel zegel
Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is pursued as an education dedicated to intelligent, critically aware, sustainable and innovative actions in architectural design. The commitment of the School of Architecture to excellence has earned it its place as the top-ranked program in Tennessee for nearly fifty years and as one of the best programs in the nation. The Bachelor of Architecture, a fiveyear, professionally accredited degree of the National Architecture Accreditation Board, enables students to advance to robust professional careers across the fields of design and industry in locations across the globe.
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Architecture | Undergraduate
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HALEY ALLEN A Singularity Amongst Us Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
This is a simulation: Jean Baudrillard’s description of America is one of a place that lost its singular
end of the twentieth century, through Mickey Mouse, picket fences, apple pies could we truly shake that old reminder of the vast and wild panorama we once
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of subtle surreality acts as the missing counterweight and the subversion to
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in articulation of this dichotomy, it is the threshold between the beautiful forgery of the townscape and the coarse veracity of the noncompliant, raw landscape
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HALIE ANDERSON with karen harber Safe Haven
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
shift becomes more evident, we felt as though it was important for the younger generation to have a place to call their own and reconnect them into this, once outdoor recreational areas, multipurpose spaces and agricultural components,
This program focuses in three areas: Culture & Community, Conservation & the area will begin to understand their roots to a larger extent and grow with one understand their land as they once had and cherish the resources and learning
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provide an opportunity to grow and learn about food as they develop a community food supply addressing the ongoing disaster of poverty in the area while teaching
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LEAH BAKER Windows of Change A Transitional Dwelling for Milton Julian Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
as they age, most design efforts are put into the development of assisted living their familiar and personal surroundings, homes should be a place that support
he prepares to make the transition to the end of his life, a place is created that
design delves into the detail scale of everyday elements throughout Milton’s living space, it also considers the design on a grander scale and timeline, for
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a sense of family and gathering, the overall design considers spaces in which family can congregate in support and fellowship for him and return to this land, in
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JENNY BUDDE Temporal Dimensions an exploration of time as architecture Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
Are there as many architectures as there are moments in time, and if so, are they
This thesis seeks to explore an architecture that contains a lifetime and that in response to changing quality of light throughout the day as well as throughout
to respond to the human interaction with time, that takes into consideration ideas
An abandoned building, once serving a standardized system of time, the railway,
study questions our understanding and perception of time as it relates to the
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architecture, changing in days, nights, seasons and years, creates and iterates
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ROBERT CAPPS Starting Ground: An active youth center
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
This project explores the ability of architecture to create a sense of community by providing a creative atmosphere to promote positive change for the health
from the need to feed a growing population; a population that has grown to eat
the two aspects together in a community youth center integrated with a vertical
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The Youth Center will be an educational environment where young people can
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The plaza space invites the public to interact with the building through games and
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BEN CHANDLER The 4th Occupation of Latvia: The memorialization of a Soviet naval base
ADVISOR: Hansjรถrg Gรถritz
as well as preserving the memory of those lost through the atrocities committed
line through images and text giving the user an understanding of the events that
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as a transitional space between occupations, but also act as large public spaces
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MEREDITH CHEATHAM Resilient Housing for Clay County
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
they are safe and comforting, a place you feel at ease and make memories with
hilly terrain riddled with hollows that are home to generations of families, homes
homes are damaged or need replacing, or as younger generations begin to start
role in Appalachian culture, is a focal point, binding these new strategies with the
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become focal points in the home for a culture that places so much emphasis on
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REID CIMALA Wind Cave Bison Station Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance
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Currently, only four genetically pure bison herds exist in North America, the
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CHRISTINA CLOUTHIER Itinerant Agriculture
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
This project represents a system of mobile agriculture, education, and living that
insecurity means a household members lack access to enough food for an active,
with concentrations of low socioeconomic status are the most food insecure, and This predicament pushes people towards eating convenience foods, notoriously
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A system of itinerant agriculture brings food and the growing process to the
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opportunity for the construction of homes and expansion of the mobile garden
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CHELSEA COLE The University of Tennessee U.C. Connection Between the Campus and Its Context
ADVISOR: Hansjรถrg Gรถritz
relationship to Knoxville, the concept of this design derived from the relationship
terraced space offers students and visitors a place to sit and circulate between
upper level of the design, vierendeel trusses are used to create an occupied
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key views from the prominent spaces and locations on the campus an outdoor
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COLLIN COPE Appalachia Haven: Red Bird Mission
ADVISORS: David Matthews, Joleen Darragh
the school and the mission and creates a new kind of relationship between series of symbiotic relationships blossom and an architecture of healing creates a exist not in what they do as volunteers, but in the caring relationships they develop
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evoke a sense of timelessness, while honoring the needs of a new veterinary clinic, and foremost, it should grow organically as a new community into a
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is deeply rooted in tradition: the haven creates a sense of progress while maintaining the strong cultural values of the love and resiliency of a people that
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DANIEL CREMIN Guardian Eternal
The enchanting brutality of Karosta… or perhaps the brutal enchantment. This is a really unique and rare site not only fo most unusual sights to be seen in Latvia. You may like it or you may not, but it will definitely impress you. Karosta used Karosta, partof their town, without special permission. The Baltic Sea is a mediterranean sea located between Central and Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from land of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and the Little Bel is connected by artificial waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Canal, and to the North Sea via the Kiel Canal. T northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga. These various gulfs can also be co Etymology While Tacitus called it Mare Suebicum[3] after the Germanic people of the Suebi, the first to name it also as the Baltic S name is speculative. It might be connected to the Germanic word belt, a name used for two of the Danish straits, the Belt name of the Belts might be connected to Danish bælte, which also means belt. Furthermore Adam of Bremen himself co belt (Balticus, eo quod in modum baltei longo tractu per Scithicas regiones tendatur usque in Greciam). He might also Elder. Pliny mentions an island named Baltia (or Balcia) with reference to accounts of Pytheas and Xenophon. It is poss Baltia also might be derived from “belt” and means “near belt of sea (strait)”. Meanwhile others have concluded that the basic meaning were retained in both Lithuanian (as baltas) and in Latvian (as balts). On this basis, a related hypothesis h [5] Yet another explanation is that, while derived from the afore mentioned root, the name of the sea is related to naming f originally associated with colors found in swamps. Another explanation is that the name was related to swamp and origina derives from the cripple secondary god Balder of Nordic mythology.
ADVISOR: Hansjörg Göritz
In the Middle Ages the sea was known by variety of names. The name Baltic Sea became dominant only after 1600. Usag Name in other languagesThe Baltic Sea was known in ancient sources as Mare Suebicum or Mare Germanicum.[7] It is a 13th to 17th centuries, the strongest economic force in Northern Europe was the Hanseatic League, a federation of merc Poland, Denmark, and Sweden fought wars for Dominium Maris Baltici (“Lordship over the Baltic Sea”). Eventually, it wa Nostrum Balticum (“Our Baltic Sea”).However, it was the Dutch who dominated the Baltic trade in the seventeenth centu In the eighteenth century, Russia and Prussia became the leading powers over the sea. Sweden’s defeat in the Great North Baltic. Russia’s Peter the Great saw the strategic importance of the Baltic and decided to found his new capital, Saint Pe not just within the Baltic region but also with the North Sea region, especially eastern England and the Netherlands: their During the Crimean War, a joint British and French fleet attacked the Russian fortresses in the Baltic. They bombardedng Bomarsund in the Åland Islands. After the unification of Germany in 1871, the whole southern coast became German. W the Polish Corridor and enlarged the port of Gdynia in rivalry with the port of the Free City of Danzig. The burning Cap Arcona shortly after the attacks, 3 May 1945. Only 350 of the 4,500 prisoners who had been aboard the During World War II, Germany reclaimed all of the southern shore and much of the eastern by occupying Poland and th torpedoed troop transports. The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff remains the worst maritime disaster, killing (very roughly) warships, and other material, mainly from World War II, on the bottom of the sea. Since the end of World War II, various nations, including the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, ha [9] Even now fishermen accidentally retrieve some of these materials: the most recent available report from the Helsink kilograms (231 lbs) of material were reported in 2005. This is a reduction from the 25 incidents representing 1,110 kilogr coordinates of the wreck sites. Rotting bottles leak Lost and other substances, thus slowly poisoning a substantial part of After 1945, the German population was expelled from all areas east of the Oder-Neisse line, making room for displaced Po to the Baltic with the Kaliningrad Oblast. The Baltic states on the eastern shore were annexed by the Soviet Union. The Bal navy was prepared to invade the Danish isles. This border status restricted trade and travel. It ended only after the collap Since May 2004, with the accession of the Baltic states and Poland, the Baltic Sea has been almost entirely surrounded b Petersburg area and the exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast. Winter storms begin arriving in the region during October. These have caused numerous shipwrecks, and contributed to to Stockholm, Sweden, in September 1994, which claimed the lives of 852 people. Older, wood-based shipwrecks such shipworm. Storm floods
of disrepair creates an own identity, in which the plain move of an urban oasis
towards the beginning of the northern pier which acts as a breakwater for the
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TABITHA DARKO Spatial Politics Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
they also have the power to manipulate the physical order of the spaces we
This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between architecture and spatial
barrier zones between neighborhoods are the existing scars of the apartheid era
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apartheid through addressing resource distribution relative to the spatial order
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seeks to address the issues of neighborhood barriers whilst reclaiming a space with a valuable resource and distributing it to adjacent communities
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ANDREA DIAMANTE Crafting Communities
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
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This project attempts to reconnect downtown Knoxville to its roots by having a gathering place to teach agricultural and artisanal techniques in a community
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DUSTIN DURHAM Back To Their Land: Assuring the Self-Sufficiency of a Proud People
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
Appalachia has a strong and storied past which directly impacts the distinctness to the land that surrounds them, above all else, the people of the settlements of
will respect the generations of traditions and values and promote their continued
The primary goal of the project was providing a structure for individual families to
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which the family can turn to on a daily level as opposed to one used merely in a time of trouble, allowing it to transform from an alien object on their land into
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storage room on the second, along with a smokehouse to cure meats, and a
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EZRA ELAM
SECTION A 1/2” = 1’
Low Cost Housing for Appalachia: House Kit
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
SECTION B 3/8” = 1’
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As a way to provide low cost housing for Appalachia that can serve as both a shelter for emergency relief and a permanent housing stock for the area, my project looks at how a house kit can be quickly assembled at a low cost with
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JORDAN ETTERS Spring Harvest Brewing
ADVISOR: Mark DeKay
that is waste and turn it into something beautiful, just as food scraps themselves can become beautiful through the compost process to then cultivate beautiful
Therefore, to promote this form of recycling and to further enhance the beauty of
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Neighboring residences can bring in their organic waste to become a part of the
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to encourage the relationship between waste and beauty in a way that helps the
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MARION FORBES Soundings Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
the ear, this thesis investigates sound experience through the design of a campus that reinhabits a series of abandoned and decommissioned oil platforms within
yearly from varying issues including hypoxia, extreme weather, oil spills and
sound can begin to communicate between students and the natural environment;
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these industrial platforms will begin to provide opportunity for remediation of the
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IGOR GOROLYUK Karosta Urban Center Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Hansjoerg Goeritz
artist and tourist hub, however, lacks a town center where residents, tourists and
An orchard of birch trees on a bed of glistening white gravel extends the sacred
of the plaza circular walls create a threshold point that leads to the town’s bath
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tourists and workers can intermingle and socialize whether going to a church
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WHITNEY HACKETT layers from an origin: the process of food distribution
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
This project is located in downtown Knoxville with the main goal providing
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are many layers between the farmer and the consumer that can blur the origin of
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KAREN HARBER with halie anderson Safe Haven
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
shift becomes more evident, we felt as though it was important for the younger generation to have a place to call their own and reconnect them into this, once outdoor recreational areas, multipurpose spaces and agricultural components, but
This program focuses in three areas: Culture & Community, Conservation & the area will begin to understand their roots to a larger extent and grow with one understand their land as they once had and cherish the resources and learning
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provide an opportunity to grow and learn about food as they develop a community food supply addressing the ongoing disaster of poverty in the area while teaching
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GERRY HOGSED Three Sheets Brewery
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ADVISOR: Mark DeKay
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ERIN JENNINGS The Storehouse
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
Amid the mountainous region of Appalachia are small communities built on the
the years, the infrastructure has provided both limitations and advantages to these access for these individuals, it has also allowed for outliers to settle among these Not only are there problems of discomfort among these individuals; there are outside emergency relief due to water rising above bridge access points, making
made it available for community functions in order to reestablish the familiarity Appalachian culture helped to provide program that would help create interaction
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stage and seating, garden space and a daycare to make the storehouse thrive in
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providing emergency access to the scale of the hollow, it allows for the community
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WILSON KESSEL Karosta Modern Museum
ADVISORS: Hansjรถrg Gรถritz
established by the buildings along the west edge of the harbor still exists, and the space created between can be utilized as a living museum island, allowing for
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the corner of the harbor, providing opportunity to also divide the program into two
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CLAIRE KISTLER Augmented Cityscapes
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
The Tempest,
My thesis studies the physical augmentation of the cityscape as it changes to
be an escape, but the experience of choosing a path is no longer the realm of
Through the use of a handheld device, the user can follow a new and unexpected
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The phone becomes a portal to a new world that holds anything from a gallery
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the park complements its use for digital escapism without solely dictating any set
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ANDREW LAKATOSH VINEgraft
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
The project is a reaction to the research and the discovery of the lack of local
the museum, will utilize an indoor controlled environment tailored to grow the
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terms of food production in the urban setting, are the driving forces in the focus
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RACHEL MURDAUGH ELSEWHERE: A Second Century for the Magic City
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
to be in one place for generations, so we become less protective of our cities
the city with its region by using the combined form of a community college campus
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a megaform complex, the form and its program seek act as a conduit by which
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This urban catalyst will juxtapose the drive to move with the value of lingering in one place, both in the inherent tension of its program and in its efforts to unify city,
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RICHARD MURRAY Cartographic Errors Self-directed project
ADVISORS: Tricia Stuth, Dr. De Ann Pendry
A monologue begins when the receiving country speaks over the migrant’s
immigrants, silenced and below our gaze, this proposal studies architecture’s role
creating immeasurable tensions between the white Americans and the immigrant
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generation to become more familiar with each other, but also for their parents to
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RUSHIKA PATEL Burnish Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
Today we have lost the ability to evoke emotions and induce feelings with our
experience grounded in full bodily engagement is capable of reviving the lost
seeks to explore, highlight and enrich the phenomenological facets of everyday experiences in a dense urban environment like New York City, where sensory
the head and an amphitheater at its tail which marks the passing of time and rising
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role of material engagement which creates an affect, a term used in architecture
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Moments of bodily interaction with architecture are highlighted through the use of materials that are responsive to environmental conditions as well as physical dimension to the architecture, which consciously encourages bodily engagement
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CHRISTIAN POWERS An Appalachian Agora
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
An Appalachian Agora is a proposal in rural Appalachia that addresses both importance of politics to the community and how we as designers can facilitate this accessible transportations and resources, the availability of communicating
community grill, several small assembly conference rooms and a multipurpose
food, water and medicine; the community grill can be utilized for a kitchen space;
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department, these programs would offer a dialogue between volunteer service and the community at large, potentially producing several programs that would
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BLAKE RAMBO Living Fiction: A Projected Autobiography Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
landscapes and the stories associated with the abandonment of such a place as
architecture play in the intervention of the land and the mental rehabilitation of its Centralia, Pennsylvania has been chosen as the landscape for this project due
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an agreement with the state to cooperate with a mandatory evacuation declared
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SARAH REINDL Incidental Permanence Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
constructed to house these large numbers of displaced persons; however, these settlements are treated as temporary entities when in reality they last an average
The temporary nature, lack of design conventions and unequal distribution of resources leads to turmoil within refugee camps creating a socially and physically
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refugees, but my hope is that these design principles can be applied to similar
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WILLIAM ROWLAND project_GRAFT: CULTIVATING A HEALTHY COMMUNITY
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
hot and humid climate, means that most people are more likely to drive to a are more willing to pick up a fast food meal while driving from one place to the The proposed intervention acts as a precedent for a community based on general factors: encouraging a healthy diet, plenty of physical activity, and a healthy
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healthier living thanks to its high visibility and the immense amount of vehicular
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as a whole they create a community predicated on a common interest in living
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ZACHARY SCHULTZ Sprout
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
machine that destroys the connection that once stood between farmer and
point within the city, the farming process is more visible and able to directly serve
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that generate additional revenue making it comparable to a typical apartment
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SHAINA SEABOLT Mitigation through Congregation
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
means our design could help prepare the people or the effect afterwards, of Our Appalachia that personal interviews give insight on Appalachia traditions, lifestyle, ideologies and
and my desire to help restore a community that seems to be losing the traditions
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crisis, the building becomes living quarters for those in need with bathrooms and
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ARCH 490 / PR. AKERMAN
“WATER AND AIR, THE TWO ESSENTIAL FLUIDS ON WHICH ALL LIFE DEPENDS, HAVE BECOME GLOBAL GARBAGE CANS.”
-JACQUES COUSTEAU
SERGEY SHUTT Knoxville Athletic Center & Urban Micro Farm
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
Agriculture is not only responsible for using an excessive portion of the world’s water supply, but is also responsible for much of the pollution that has been of primary concern in recent years, particularly as human populations continue to
imperative that the use of water within agricultural industries is carefully planned My design proposes a combination of an athletic center and micro farm, where The water needed to maintain the functions of the building is obtained naturally and stored beneath the building, at which point it can be recycled as irrigation for
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not needed for the maintenance of the building, excess water is released back
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MAX SLIFKA [PARK]ing
ADVISOR: Jennifer Akerman
By creating a parking garage farm with interspersed park spaces, we can break the monotony of parking garages and make wonderful spaces to inhabit and
negative effects that conventional monoculture systems play on the ecosystem
The garage has three massive cores that are the only vertical supports in the literally as pots with soil in order to bioremediate the effects of cars within the
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provide organic fertilizer for the plants on site that are harvested to support the
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Now that we have this great food system, we need to experience it as citizens of
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ALEX STINCHCOMB Limits of the Horizon Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
Today, we have lost sight of the heavens and discard our greatest achievements
higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known as
there are limits to what design can do, the focus of this investigation is to explore the impact of the natural and built environment to capture our imagination, to
look forward beyond horizons, we also need to protect and preserve our spirited past, to free ourselves from preconceptions and release our imagination and
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exploration where only few have been, but which many have come to understand
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SHERIF SUGIYAMA Karosta
ADVISOR: Hansjรถrg Gรถritz
Besides the military persons, the family members and retired warriors also resided
Currently, the port attracts international taxpayers to turn Karosta into a developing historical changes that happened to Karosta, it is sad to see the fate of the town zone that is connected to the existing major existing infrastructure such as the
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the port must function without disturbing the sensitive memorialized parts of the
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VERNON TAYLOR A Unified City, Campus and Stadium
ADVISOR: Hansjรถrg Gรถritz
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new layer to the stadium, it becomes an iconic beacon for the city on the riverfront
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PATRICK TORMENO Red Bird Mission Hydrologic Research Co-op
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
project is to provide the mission with new facilities to help foster a greater sense of community for the area, in addition to providing emergency awareness and residences of the mission and the primary structures currently used to facilitate
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community outreach center, a mobile clinic with docking station and a hydrological
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MICHAEL WASYLIW Red Bird Mission Emergency Operations and Community Center
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
and Community Center which addresses the needs of emergency response,
of Clay County and improve emergency response time to residents living in the
the kitchen and conference room, will be utilized during times of severe need
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sense of emergency preparedness and trust will be established amongst the
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WALKER WESTBROOK OUTREACH: Addressing Access to Healthcare in Rural Appalachia
ADVISOR: Katherine Ambroziak
Clay County, Kentucky is a region of proud people with a strong cultural backbone; however the physical aspects of their lifestyle are dwindling due to poverty and
a base clinic, accommodating the mobile clinic with a dock and laboratory facilities building incorporates a large porch, a familiar element to the Appalachian building
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dock carves into the side of the mountain at the mouth of the hollow, incorporating a spacious platform which is handicapped accessible and has seating, a bulletin
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dock, residents can use the dock for a variety of purposes, including farmers
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STEPHANIE WILDS Catalytic Places Self-directed project
ADVISORS: Tricia Stuth
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of placemaking, this proposal demonstrates how architects may engage the
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DANIEL ZEGEL Urban Wilderness Camp Self-directed project
ADVISOR: Tricia Stuth
simultaneously cutting through the poorest neighborhoods, leaving tangible
This thesis examines abandoned places that have been overrun with nature, due
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an urban wilderness camp with the intention of engaging the community and
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private allows for these programs to intersect with the greater urban area, with the
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The Graduate Architecture Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, encourages students to make meaningful impacts to the world through research, design and scholarly work. Distinguished for its project-based education and research, the program has pushed its students to pursue multi-disciplinary learning that re-invents conventional design/build operations and explores innovative uses of sustainable methods in the built environment. As the only professionally-accredited graduate architecture program in the state, it has become a leading force in pushing forward research in areas of urban design, sustainability, high-performance buildings and conservation and stewardship.
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Architecture | Graduate
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MALLORY BARGA Residential Rebuilding in Rural Haiti: Disaster Recovery Strategies
ADVISORS: John McRae, Tricia Stuth, David Matthews
This thesis focuses on an appropriate and applicable way to recover from natural disasters in a place where indigenous resources, building and construction
The concept of the project challenges the existing disaster relief process and the three phases of relief housing; emergency, temporary, to permanent, by creating a new recovery process that incorporates community involvement and two phases
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housing after emergency solutions can plan for future expansion with strong connections, utilize locally available materials and resources and empathize with
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WILLIAM BRANTLEY Urban Economics of the Ideal City
ADVISORS: Mark Schimmenti, T. K. Davis, Hansjรถrg Gรถritz
To preserve our countryside and natural lands we must invest in infrastructure that relate to public spaces that create economic, cultural, and social value in dense
widening of roadways along with investments in suburban infrastructure increases the supply of land available for development in the periphery of the
A design study preformed in Pensacola, Florida tests the viability of this new can be charted from the founding of the centralized historic city to the sprawling
system while simultaneously providing a recreational and cultural amenity for the
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systems will encourage dense development around existing harbors within the
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NICHOLAS BURGER Community Identity: “Place” in the South Knoxville Waterfront
ADVISORS: Scott Wall, Jennifer Akerman, Katherine Ambroziak
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that is much more about the pedestrian and the streetscape and that which will
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Knoxville, the solution becomes a node which offers housing, community
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JASON COLE URBAN[e] AGRICULTURE
ADVISOR: Avigail Sachs, Jennifer Akerman, Ted Shelton
exposes the loss of connection that we have to the land and to that which it
state, in a nation of plenty, where parents cannot buy fresh or nutritious real foods should drive how people live and work, but those positions make no allowance
Architecture will form the physical framework that supports a reconnection architecture will establish an energetic community locus that generates adjacent
through education, better physical health and welfare through activity and
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a hub of activity and education through connection to greenways and the public
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BENJAMIN CULBERTSON Recapturing Urban space: an Inhabited Bridge in Downtown Nashville
ADVISORS: TK Davis, Hansjรถrg Gรถritz, David Matthews
continuity of the urban fabric by linking areas that were separated by rivers and
connected hubs, the needs of the pedestrian fell to give way to the needs of was unable to meet the new demands of the city and thus fell out of favor within
and begin to expand the concept to see how it might provide solutions to some of
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in downtown Nashville, TN, which has an estimated population increase of one
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opportunities unique to this typology while simultaneously providing a means of
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BENJAMIN DANCE Equal Standing
ADVISORS: Katherine Ambroziak, Avigail Sachs, Mark Schimmenti
My goal in this thesis is to challenge the social issues that can arise from current
The challenge is to create a design and program that is as central to the and is a catalyst to becoming a series of all inclusive spaces that reinvigorate the careful placement of performance, athletic and trade training facilities for the
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equalizers and can create a healthy and vibrant downtown community along the
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LAUREN DUNN Coexisting with the Penumbra: Inviting the homeless to participate in design
ADVISORS: Avigail Sachs, Katherine Ambroziak,Tracy Moir-McClean
has generated a contentious situation, affecting numerous stakeholders and
Thus, the proposed research is a both a brief, loose ethnographic study of the as a series of design workshops with members of the homeless community to
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establish empathy and learn about a group before engaging in design, possible
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whole problem, but we can tackle it with a new set of situational and responsive
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MARIA FOX WORKING AT THE WATER’S EDGE: Reconnecting the People of Charleston with the Water
ADVISORS: Dr. George Dodds, John McRae, TK Davis
of water, it is the water used for everyday activities and drinking that may come to
terminal and maritime center located at the end of one of the most popular streets in the downtown area is going to reconnect both the locals and tourists of Charleston
aspects of this proposal into consideration and to take advantage of the newly
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restoration of the natural shoreline, interactive pedestrian bridges, viewing towers and ferry boat routes, my design will bring back the industrial, historic character
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AMANDA GANN Deep Surface – inhabiting the terra viscous
ADVISORS: Ted Shelton, Gale Fulton, Jennifer Akerman
as predicted and settlement continues to sprawl increasing impervious surfaces
past century, the Bayou has been steadily disappearing from sight, being hidden
layers that comprise the urban landscape – a new paradigm can be established imagines the potential of excavating this area within the urban landscape to
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a development strategy, the project combines seasonally responsive architecture
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infrastructures hybridizes infrastructures of the past century with more responsive
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PHILLIP GEIMAN
ADVISORS: John McRae, Mark Schimmenti, David Matthews
This thesis looks at urban design within small town Appalachia and its role in low
areas transition from a heavy depend acne on industrial based economy to an
answer the question of what is the function and what is the role of design at such
The design then is to identify the emerging patterns of organization and necessary because there is a limit to the scope and ability of individual responses and because the history of the context sees many projects fail to engage with the emergent process and reorganize the infrastructure and replace the context to engage with this process with a decentralized model both at the regional
thesis hopes to rethink how traditional urban strategies spanning from regional relationships to urban plans to civic architecture work differently in rural areas
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and connection, a reciprocal relationship between these points together over long
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MELISSA MORRIS agri[culture]: an alternate paradigm for the american landscape.
ADVISORS: Hansjörg Göritz, James Rose, TK Davis
Throughout the Appalachian region, one can experience the vast disappearance
appropriate balance of urban, suburban and rural areas, we begin to lose the landscape which has always been so closely linked to this country’s cultural and This thesis focuses on the agrarian Appalachian culture with a proposal for
agriculture and commerce, the two key components found on the Tennessee
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once was a family farm, then an aspired upscale subdivision made complete with a private landing strip, is returning to it’s cultural roots with the implementation of
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conversation between research and education, culture and commerce and thus,
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JARED POHL BLOCK 271_Reviving an Industrial Artifact
ADVISORS: Tricia Stuth, TK Davis, James Rose
sites are occupied by building artifacts from an industrial era that served very
scale, clean articulated lines and tendency to be vacant, these service buildings
salvaging these buildings in an era when we are often too quick to tear them pertains to the material form of industrial artifacts, the culture and heritage of investigation focuses on assessing the value of the artifacts’ material, function
to the tune of the railcar, the site evolved to a wholesale distribution center for
can be transformed and reconnected to the neighborhood while preserving the
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hard edge in the urban fabric that is preventing new development from connecting
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SHEHREEN SALEH Project Graft: An Urban Food Forest
ADVISORS: Jennifer Akerman, Dr. George Dodds, Scott Wall
The idea of urban food production methods and the issue of the loss of biodiversity in our ecosystem can both be addressed with the ecological farming utilizes ecological design in food production to work with nature in a harmonious
The approach to this project poses to sustain biodiversity through an urban food
food in this way but to allow the main program components to become mutually
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is posed by this project is for the site to become an asset to the city by nurturing permaculture methods of farming in an urban setting that can potentially attract
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The main program for this project includes a food forest for food production, a
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JENNIFER STEWART Carbon Neutral Guidelines for Medium Density Urban Areas in Warm, Humid and Cool, Dry Climates
ADVISORS: Mark DeKay, Dr. William Miller, Mark Schimmenti
fossil fuel energy usage relies on the use of local materials, shorter construction
medium density planned sites in representative cities within a cool, dry climate The creation of guidelines dictated by climate analysis will increase access to climate zone has its own problems and conditions, they share a few common
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programmatic and urban elements to result in a framework for sustainable urban
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MIRANDA WRIGHT Social Capital: Community + Food
ADVISORS: Jennifer Akerman, John McRae, Lisa Mullikin
The initial research done for this semester was looking at the downfall of
to your neighbors, ask real people questions or learn from those in which are not just like you, but it comes with the price of having no reason to talk to others not
This project was to look at opportunities within a downtown structure that could
two distinctive parts – one is a residential side, while the other is the community
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community side is full of program in which not only the residents of this structure, but many of the surrounding structures would come together and eat, learn and
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An interdisciplinary degree program offered through a partnership between the College of Architecture and Design and the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Landscape Architecture Program delivers an education balanced across the applied arts and sciences. It is the first and only program in Tennessee accredited by the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board. As a leader in addressing contemporary issues facing landscapes and communities of the state and region, the Landscape Architecture Program prepares its students to become experts, researchers and professionals of natural and constructed environments.
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Landscape Architecture | Graduate
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ADVISORS: Brad Collett, John McRae, TK Davis
Today, transportation corridors challenge the pedestrian endeavor, envelope public transport is growing in popularity and cities are responding by increasing bike
transportation, decreasing pedestrian access to open space and weakening
the north of downtown Knoxville lacks the open spaces that promote a connection
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Blackstock, an area once thriving with industry and neighborhoods of workforce in close proximity, is now disjointed from the people that once helped to support
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a look at the open and sometimes forgotten spaces created by interstates and to test how an ecological public park system can integrate isolated neighborhoods and provide a venue for healthy and active lifestyles where individuals become aware of their symbiotic relationship with the environment, as well as create a
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many byproducts of this retraction is the closing of hundreds of golf courses across the country, leaving many residential communities which where designed
March of 2011, a developmental proposal for the property surfaced outlining a plan for the complete construction of the site and the removal of much of the community, this proposal effectively severs one of the overarching reasons why the residents chose to live in a master planned golf community, Conversely, the owner and major development interest of the property views the site as his to within the ongoing dialogue between these two sides that this thesis interjects itself into this conversation with the objective of presenting an alternative plan to that of complete development which would ideally serve the needs of both sides
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