The Social Life of the Student - A design Project
2009 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
Studentens sociala liv - Ett designprojekt (Swedish)
Abstract [en]
This report describes from start to finish how a new design and extension of the Gengras student union center at the University of Hartford was done. The report will be using a project that was made by me and explains how the whole project was planned by contacting S/L/A/M Collaborative Inc. all the way until the final outcome was presented for a final jury. It explains the whole chain process one should use when designing a building such as different analysis, precedent studies, concept development and how to approach the design project. New technologies, the feature of access and flexibility are the main influence words in the design that is being used as an example. These words can be found and felt throughout the whole building both in the façade drawings and in the plan solutions. The result was a building that is more organic and flexible in its forms and spaces than current architecture is today. A sort of architecture that comes more and more in which will shape the society in the future. My building also keeps a sense of the old façade to create a transition between the new and the old. The old and the new cooperation prove that the innovative design does not destroy the old building; it only enhances it and prepares it for the future.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2009. , p. 50
Keywords [en]
Socialize, Flexible, Flow, Organic, Interaction, Technology, Architecture, Design, Student center
National Category
Architectural Engineering Building Technologies Other Civil Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-10492OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-10492DiVA, id: diva2:241179
Subject / course
JTH, Civil Engineering; JTH, Civil Engineering
Presentation
(English)
Uppsok
Technology
Supervisors
Examiners
2009-10-062009-10-012013-05-13Bibliographically approved