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Item Coe Fenn/Lammas Land park and community center development arcadia(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1986) McClellan, Troy ThomasItem Charles M. Russell Recreational Center and Park(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1986) Farkas, Wm. S.Item A restaurant and recreational park in Butte, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1986) Powers, Paul W.; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Peter C. KommersItem Manhattan landing aquarium and waterfront park(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1987) Ficke, Dawn E.; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ralph JohnsonOne of New Yorks' greatest assets is its' extensive waterfront. For my thesis project I am designing an Aquarium and a waterfront park concept for Lower Manhattan. The site that I have chosen is located on the waterfront, between the Battery Park (to the south), and the South Street Seaport (to the north). Developing the waterfront between Battery Park and the South Street Seaport provides a unique opportunity to exploit the waterfront for the public's enjoyment. The proposed aquarium would open the waterfront up to the public, and it would act as a catalyst for the area. The aquarium and park would function as a connection between the downtown core and the waterfront, and the South Street Seaport and Battery Park. The future of New York will be enhanced with this project ( as well as ensuring the growth and the popularity of Lower Manhattan ) by improving the variety and quality of attractions to the city while retaining the surrounding area's integrity. The horizons for the future will be expanded while the problems of today are responded to. To justify the use of such a prominent and influential site, a high level of performance must be required of the development. The goals will be clearly stated and responded to. The visual and the physical corridors and the need for public accessibility are major factors that the form of the development will have to take into consideration. Other considerations that will be addressed in the project are: the existing dominant open spaces, the existing pedestrian and vehicular patterns, and the continuity of the city through selectively relating to surrounding building heights and bulk placement.Item The Medicine Cabinet : a drug store, residence, and park in Independence, Kansas(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1988) Svehla, Mary AnnItem An aquarium for Seattle, Washington(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1974) Clark, C. WilliamAt present the city of Seattle, Washington has in its waterfront plan a proposal for what they call an aqua-theatre. As fulfillment of my thesis and partial fulfillment for the degree in Architecture from Montana State University, I would like to use them as my client in designing for them this aqua-theatre (aquarium). This aquarium would display or exhibit a wide variety of aquatic life that would live in harmony with each other for others to visit and enjoy, I have also considered combining with this aquarium, research facilities for studying marine life, but i feel I should limit ray proposal and design to displaying and maintaining marine life, because of the overall complex function it will take, that of tank systems, etc. Observing inhabitants from the marine world can become quite compelling. I would like it to be an educational as well as an entertaining experience. It is a known fact that in future years we will be calling more and more on marine life to answer many of our problems. Already the biochemist has been using marine organisms in hope of extracting some useful substance beneficial to man. The behaviorist has been observing marine organisms trying to determine the motivation behind defined behavior patterns. For these reasons and many more I find myself wanting to exploit marine life and since I am putting myself in the position of designing an aquarium, through this I would to extend my findings to others by letting them relate to aquatic life and experience it through the concept I devise. I would expect to relate the aquarium to the urban plan of Seattle and to the waterfront redevelopment area. I would expect the aquarium to be a focal point of the waterfront plan.Item Rebirth of Identity(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2008) Vandergrift, Raluca Miriam; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Steven Juroszek; John Brittingham (co-chair)The reality of communism was not and is not the efficient equality for all described by Karl Marx. Communism was distorted by human nature to create a powerful and oppressive tyranny by which many suffered in Eastern Europe. Architecture was and remains one of the primary ways to display power. It can oppress the masses by raising fear and suspicion from the governing as well as from the governed. In the mid 60's Romania gained autonomy from Russia and began to practice its own form of communism. The power of propaganda remained, creative individualism perished, and the commune prevailed. The private domicile was assigned to the individual based on the number of family members. But in reality the quality of one's home was purely based on ties to the communist party. Most people had to give up old family homes and move in "bloc" system apartment buildings. These structures were built on a grid with the efficiency of a machine. Expanded within the grid were the cells of private life. Effort was not given to comfort or individuality. Although these structures have a resemblance to the projects of New York there is a certain nostalgia for these concrete neighborhoods. They represent a time when people were drawn together against the greater evil and a time when children took first steps. It was also a time of invisible resources such as food and heat, yet Bucharest would be a different city without these neighborhoods. The banishment of individuality in public and private life created a social change in Romanian culture. Whether it became an underground affair to express individuality, spirituality, homosexuality or whether its suppression abolished certain traits in the Romanian people is of great interest to me. I would like to focus on one neighborhood in Bucharest, Romania which is comprised of the communist style apartment buildings in order to figure out what course of action would be most suitable for bringing back the sense of pride and identity in peoples' living spaces. Should the buildings be renovated, destroyed or would a community center be more effective?