Ecological Community Integration: Achieving Ecological Design Through "playful" Community Relationships

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Ecological Community Integration: Achieving Ecological Design Through "playful" Community Relationships

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2018

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title: Ecological Community Integration: Achieving Ecological Design Through "playful" Community Relationships

creator: Micaila Sheridan

subject: Architecture, Environmental aspects; Sustainable urban development; Water in landscape architecture; Community centers, Massachusetts, Boston, Designs and plans

description: I am interested in taking a maximized approach to environmental issues. Architects try to solve the problems of the industrial environment by addressing them individually. Problems like temperature changes, water levels rising, climate change, and natural disasters, have all been recognized as environmental issues. They try to focus on one problem and solve that not realizing they are all related and need to be addressed holistically. Since these issues are related we have to learn how to address them as a whole system, managing each issue and looking within the larger context of the environment. I am proposing a more holistic way of managing a solution to a complex problem. Rather than separating it into small sections that do not solve the problem, the solution to environmental issues must be comprehensive, ecological, and interactive. The program must be based on a thinking that is systems-based but will address the more organic forms of nature. This can be achieved through categories that better cover the whole range of the issue, Renewable Energy, Raw Materials, and Storm-water Systems can be treated simultaneously and adapted between buildings and landscapes. Through those three applications the design will start to chip away at this bigger issue of addressing the cultural shift needed to change the way our buildings impact the environment. I am looking to do this by creating a community center that will allow members of the Back Bay and Fenway area to come together and take part in managing and operating some of these ideas. The ideas are to implement renewable energy, raw materials, and storm-water systems into the site, through blending them between the landscape and building. I will apply these to area of the Muddy River and Charlesgate Park. An area that was once vibrant ecosystem sustaining much of Bostons [sic] ecological design has now been dismantled and constructed as a highway overpass.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

date: 2018

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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