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Outdoor Educational Center for Talawanda High Shool
No full textFor my Tier 3 experience, I will be designing an outdoor educational center for Talawanda High School. The new high school site includes a natural area consisting of wetlands, forests, planes, and agriculture. The high school is looking for ways for students to utilize and be integrated with the outdoor spaces to enhance their education
Sustainability in Library Preservation
Get PDFMany in the library world are embracing sustainability initiatives in an effort to better serve our communities and planet. In this article the author explores the need to integrate preservation within the broader approach to library sustainability, as well as the challenges presented by sustainable preservation practices. The author addresses concerns including reducing the amount of waste produced, recycling options, and availability of environmentally friendly supplies through the presentation of a case study. In addition, the article further explores the complexities of sustainable preservation by promoting continued discussion on finding the balance between accepted preservation best practices and emerging trends in sustainable solutions
Cradle of Coaches Reception Booklet
No full textThis is a booklet from the Cradle of Coaches: A Legacy of Excellence Exhibit reception. The exhibit consisted of materials from the Cradle of Coaches Collection from the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, and was up from August 19, 2013 - December 13, 2013. The booklet contains information from about the coaches from the exhibit, as well as images of the materials from the collection
Daylighting as Media: From Illusion in Chinese Gardens to Space in Modern Architecture
Get PDFThe intention of this thesis is to evaluate whether daylighting can be a media leading traditional concepts into today’s architectural design. Daylighting as a media not only an essential visual element in consisting impression of architecture, but also a significant method to generate experience through architecture. The Chinese garden as a special Chinese traditional Cultural signal is deeply related with Chinese ancient philosophy, paintings, poems and gentleman-scholars’ dream. The philosophy of Taoism emphasizes the importance of combination human and nature, which generates primeval idea of natural ecology. Daylighting in Chinese garden also presents the same idea by complex consequence and multiple layers, different forms and arrangements. The concepts which is full of narrative experience and idea of ecologies is worth researching and integrating in modern architecture. This essay studies Chinese gardens, paintings and poems and proves that a Chinese garden uses the four means, which are imitating large scale and merging geometry, controlling features in time and seasons, continuously framing views, and design of consequence in emotion by daylighting to frame traditional mind. The modern architectural cases which contain the similar meaning are talked. The possibility and occasions that daylighting can be a media transferring traditional concepts into modern space are evaluated, which includes transformed from a Chinese garden, integrated with modernism, co-incident techniques usage and the limits that has conflicts with the characteristics of daylighting in Chinese gardens. From the case studies, as the most general and common element in architecture, daylighting can presents the concepts and features within Chinese gardens. At the same time, daylighting are capable to translate the concepts by using modern space language, and it has been proved in some practical projects. From this perspective, daylighting can be a media transfer the illusion in Chinese gardens into space in modern architecture. But the limits for application of daylighting as experiencing in Chinese garden also exist. Because the content and ideas reflected from Chinese garden are generated from Chinese philosophy and the background are very different from today’s already. From this aspect, the concepts in modern space are not totally the same with it originally was
Reimagining Info Lit Assessment: An Inexpensive and Easy Method for Measuring IL Skill Progression
No full textHow information literate are our students? How can we tell if their skills are improving during their college years? Standardized IL tests are available (iCriticalThinking and SAILS), but each requires a considerable investment to participate. Is it possible to achieve results using a separate in-house, and open source software? Yes! This presentation will describe our university’s implementation of this software, the results, and how we are using results to prove effectiveness and improve information literacy instruction
Enzymatic regulation of glycogenolysis in a subarctic population of the wood frog: implications for extreme freeze tolerance
Get PDFThe wood frog, Rana sylvatica, from Interior Alaska survives freezing at –16°C, a temperature 10–13°C below that tolerated by its southern conspecifics. We investigated the hepatic freezing response in this northern phenotype to determine if its profound freeze tolerance is associated with an enhanced glucosic cryoprotectant system. Alaskan frogs had a larger liver glycogen reserve that was mobilized faster during early freezing as compared to conspecifics from a cool-temperate region (southern Ohio, USA). In Alaskan frogs the rapid glucose production in the first hours of freezing was associated with a 7-fold increase in glycogen phosphorylase activity above unfrozen frog levels, and the activity of this enzyme was higher than that of frozen Ohioan frogs. Freezing of Ohioan frogs induced a more modest (4-fold) increase in glycogen phosphorylase activity above unfrozen frog values. Relative to the Ohioan frogs, Alaskan frogs maintained a higher total protein kinase A activity throughout an experimental freezing/thawing time course, and this may have potentiated glycogenolysis during early freezing. We found populational variation in the activity and protein level of protein kinase A which suggested that the Alaskan population had a more efficient form of this enzyme. Alaskan frogs modulated their glycogenolytic response by decreasing the activity of glycogen phosphorylase after cryoprotectant mobilization was well under way, thereby conserving their hepatic glycogen reserve. Ohioan frogs, however, sustained high glycogen phosphorylase activity until early thawing and consumed nearly all their liver glycogen. These unique hepatic responses of Alaskan R. sylvatica likely contribute to this phenotype’s exceptional freeze tolerance, which is necessary for their survival in a subarctic climate
Contemporary Architecture in the Bahamas Viewed Through the Lens of Critical Regionalism
No full textCritical Regionalism is a term that came about during the early 1980’s. It deals with designing architecture based on specific and unique characteristics of a region including geographical, economical, and cultural conditions. It does not simply stick to traditional means of design, or copy what exists in the region, but learns from it and reapplies it in a contemporary or up to date manner. This paper looks at these conditions in The Bahamas, and explores a critical regionalist approach for architecture in The Bahamas moving forward.
Literary research was done on authorities of critical regionalism. In 1981 Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre introduced the term. Although there may be variations between different authors’ ideas, key concepts remain the same – avoiding homogeneous designs worldwide, and creating architecture best suited for its location. Further research included traveling to islands within the country, conducting interviews with architects and artists, and examination of hypothesis forming surveys. Based on this, the initial assertion for this paper – that there is a lack of contemporary architecture in The Bahamas – was further substantiated.
Due to the large tourism industry, developments within the country put primary focus on appealing to tourists with secondary emphasis placed on the community. This should be reversed. Additionally, design of a building should not simply be about aesthetics but take into consideration the comfort of its users. This can best be achieved by understanding and responding to the region and its culture, while applying contemporary methods such as modern building techniques and material
The City: A Place of Places Examining the Role of Place and Architecture Inside the Urban Fabric
No full textThe city is a composition of individuals. Every resident in a city builds their own place and is built by those places that surround them. It is this interaction of places that make the city unique; transforming the city into a place of places. The interaction of places transcends the cities physical constructs, such as shelter and safety, and instead creates a spiritual dwelling for the cities residences, and giving rise to community. This spirituality is not one of pure religious thought, but rather of the indicative nature of the humanity contained within every resident of the city. It is this humanity that is then reflected in the architecture of the city’s residents, and shapes not only the individual places of the residents, but the overall urban structure of the city as well. This project focuses on the understanding and exploring the link between place, architecture and humanity within an urban context by examining the act of place making, both in terms of physical construction (i.e. architecture) and metaphysical reasoning (why we build) for both individuals and communities. To accomplish this, four (4) case studies of urban areas, with a focus on both specific places as well as overall urban structure, will be examined looking at detailing the link of architecture, humanity and place
It will all fit
No full textA collection of poetry that explores the different moods of life, framed by five sections, each introduced by a stanza from a work describing life as a free verse poem written by God