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This is a collection of terminal projects written by graduate students in the University of Oregon's Department of Architecture, Portland, Oregon.
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Item Open Access Re-Connecting(University of Oregon, 2014) Hexberg, Kendra; Neis, HajoThere are no lifestyle adjustment services or military deprogramming seminars; discharged servicemen are left to find their own way. At Veterans Enclave discharged servicemen and women, regardless of their standing, are heralded back into civilian society with all the glory and help they deserve.Item Open Access Growing the far south side of Chicago: Bringing food access & awareness to Halsted Street -- Healing & restoring community through food education(University of Oregon, 2014) Davis, Jackie; Neis, HajoItem Open Access Eastbank Community Church: Making and Healing Community(University of Oregon, 2014) Meller, Espirito; Gast, GerryThe Central Eastbank Waterfront is a unique opportunity to restore a healthy river-based lifestyle to a major city. The district should be river in character, not only location. The new image of Portland is a bustling, riverside creative industrial district where people live, work, and recreate; built at a human scale; with a healthy Willamette riverbank in the foreground and Mount Hood in the background. Portland's Eastbank District is an amazing healthy riverfront with robust water recreation and access, where you can play in the water and catch a salmon on your bike or kayak ride home...all the while being within a stone's throw of the downtown commercial core. The vision will be enabled by new zoning and development policy that makes medium scale mixed-use (industrial/commercial/residential) development financially accessible and required.Item Open Access gather. learn. build.(University of Oregon, 2014) Lavelle, Beth; Neis, HajoThe uneven development in historic Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati is resulting in the rapid gentrification of the neighborhood and the displacement of the city’s most vulnerable urban poor. Without the support or participation of the long-time residents, current development practices are perpetuating the cycle of moving wealth and poverty around the city rather than creating sustainable, mixed-income neighborhoods. Resident empowerment and participation in the development process is critical to breaking this cycle. Rather than building housing for the low-income residents of Over-the-Rhine, this project establishes a framework to empower and build resident capacity. This project allows people to gather to determine their own needs, learn and access resources, and build their own solutions to take control of the development of their neighborhood.Item Open Access RE INVEST; RE USE; RE STORE(University of Oregon, 2014) Prassas, AlinaYouth unemployment in Greece is devastating an entire generation and dramatically altering life. The catastrophic failure of global economics has led to more and more consumption, but without the demand needed to sustain its levels in Athens. This catastrophe has been especially apparent in Greece, and the youth of the nation are paying the highest price. Poor waste management is just another daily fact for many in Greece, but it leads to vast illegal landfills and leaching waste sites, as well as an unattractive and depressing urban landscape. The urban fabric of Metaxourgeio is decaying, and metro wide storm water management is lacking. Corruption plays heavily into many of these problems, and creating a transparent, open institution is crucial. By reinvigorating an old working-class neighborhood now home to many young people and immigrants in the heart of the city, hope and opportunity can be made. By creating local economies through community recycling and upcycling, the neighborhood will be engaged and prosper, while a startup innovation center will spark ingenuity and focus, and foster opportunity in the younger generation, routed in the potential of Metaxourgeio. Reclaiming public space for public use and focusing on green spaces will enrich and enliven the community.Item Open Access The Unspoken(University of Oregon, 2013) Dobroth, MeganItem Open Access Hood River Maker's Market(University of Oregon, 2013) Jensen, ColinHood River Maker's Market plan includes site plan for public market, production area, exhibition hall and other public spaces.Item Open Access [Re]source Kumasi: Supplementing food with knowledge to work towards independent food security(University of Oregon, 2013) Brendel, Ericka; Neis, HajoItem Open Access Museum of Environmental Science and Energy: A new waterfront for the city of subdued excitement(University of Oregon, 2013) Winters, ScottItem Open Access Mill City Center for Healthy Living: Creating a Network for Health in a Growing Downtown Community(University of Oregon, 2013) Soukup, Scott Jamison; Gast, GeraldItem Open Access The Karpeles Manuscript Museum: Creating Public Space on the Periphery of Historic Charleston: A Mending Wall to Bridge Neighbors(University of Oregon, 2013) Wood, Nate; Gast, GeraldItem Open Access P[re]faults: [Re]generative(University of Oregon, 2013) Moreno, Matthew; Neis, HajoItem Open Access Community Harvest: Cultivating Security in Urban Food Deserts(University of Oregon, 2013) Cole, Laura; Neis, HajoItem Open Access Center for Industrial Diversity: Reimagining Industry as an Ecological Artifact(University of Oregon, 2013) Kaneko, Hiroshi; Neis, HajoItem Open Access Empowering Regeneration: El Centro de Educación Agua(University of Oregon, 2013) Russell, Emily; Neis, HajoItem Open Access Bloomingdale Community Campus (k-8 arts joint use/ art magnet school): Rethinking an urban schools relationship to its community(University of Oregon, 2013-06) Manser, Elizabeth; Gast, GeraldItem Open Access Regenerative Space: A Design for the Future: Tohoku Spaceport(University of Oregon, 2013) Postma, Boyce; Neis, HajoThe final human catastrophic disaster is the failure of earth’s ability to support life. Due to ill-conceived human industry, natural planetary processes, or some extra-planetary intervention, this planet will not last forever. However, for the first time in the known history of this solar system, this predictable end does not necessarily mean the conclusion of human life. Facilities for such an evacuation have been proposed as early as the late years of the 19th century by thinkers such as Jules Verne and Konstantin Tsiolkowsky. I propose no less than ten locations in the world dedicated to the evacuation of humans and other life to extra-earth colonies within the next fifty years. This is the dissection of an architectural design process for a contemporary spaceport and the implications of such a typology on both local and global catastrophic disaster.Item Open Access [Re]cycle Dharavi(University of Oregon, 2013) Banjeri, Avik; Neis, HajoIn India's financial capital, Mumbai, the informal settlement known as Dharavi is home to nearly 2 million people who are packed into small and crowded living settlements. Dharavi's people both live and work within the confines of this neighborhood. The settlement has developed an illegal recycling industry that feeds its economy. The thousands of recycling industries in Dharavi coupled with the numerous textile industries account for nearly 1 billion dollars of annual revenue. These industries are housed in informally constructed industrial buildings in the 13 Compound of Dharavi. This thesis project strategizes incorporating a formal system that can work with the existing informal recycling system to help the community to repair the areas of the neighborhood that have deteriorated due to a lack of a proper waste management system.Item Open Access Helping Non-profits Help San Francisco(University of Oregon, 2013) Handly, Arthur; Neis, HajoThe primary goal of the Mission Street Development Project is to bring San Francisco closer to earthquake resiliency by providing a secure site for ‘essential city services.’ By providing a seismically strengthened facility for San Francisco’s non-governmental human services organizations, we can reduce the burden placed on the shoulders of our local government. This facility would be aimed at providing the emergency services during the days and weeks following a major disaster, such as food distribution, counseling and non-emergency medical care.Item Open Access [Re]generative Design for the Los Angeles River(University of Oregon, 2013) Swanson, Amber; Neis, HajoMy proposal for this thesis studio will focus on a section of the Los Angeles River in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The architectural intervention will be sited on a vacant parcel of land near Union Station, on the west side of the river channel. Here I am proposing an urban river interpretive center, a community gathering space with the focus of river habitat and flood education, and an urban playscape for the city. Its location, near the cultural neighborhoods of Chinatown, El Pueblo, and Little Tokyo allows it to access and celebrate the diverse history and culture of the area. This proposal will also take into account the larger urban context and could potentially become a key link in a network of parks and green-space and an important demonstration site for sustainable water management and multipurpose flood mitigation.