Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / William P. Winslow III / College campuses are places of education and innovation for students, faculty, and the community of which they are a part. Universities have a unique opportunity to serve as the premier catalyst for development, which gives them the power to create new communities that are more than educational facilities. Nova Southeastern University, in Davie, Florida, is one such institution. The project site is 30 acres in the southwest corner of Nova’s campus. The blighted and disconnected strip mall currently composing the site will transform into an integrated and diverse mixed-use development that acts as a thriving icon for the university and surrounding community. Program elements included in the project are a medical research center, a library/bookstore, a hotel, retail, office, entertainment, and residential. Enhancing the social network of the university and community on one site, while creating a sense of place, is the design’s priority. Making an informed connection between theory and practice in landscape architecture, planning, and design is what gives this project validity. The design solution is a product of research, precedent studies, regional and site specific inventory and analysis, and client and personal goals. Integration between the campus and community is achieved by three design principles: 1) Place Making, 2) Connections, and 3) Community. These design principles establish and inform the social, physical, and natural systems at work in the design, as well as the user experience. A welcoming, comfortable, exciting, and iconic environment is created through the character of the place by attracting people to the site through place making. Connections are made between the site and the existing campus, the surrounding community, and the site users by physical layout and relationships. Program elements, dimensions, spatial ratios, building type, and shared amenities all exploit interaction and instill a sense of community. Each design principle is interconnected with the others, enhancing and enforcing the design as a whole.

Beginning with a former grocery store building, “An Affordable Living Community,” explores the possibilities of redesigning big box buildings. Here, the building is transformed into an affordable living community - a place for people to live, work, learn, and interact. The renovation creates a place for not only its residents, but also the surrounding neighborhoods. The building provides the challenges of breaking the generic, window-less facade, as well as bringing light into the building. This model would encourage the health, learning, and support of its community.

For a physical space to have an emotional impact on those who experience it, we must consider the connection and relationship between objects and experience, and how people make individual connections to insentient places. It is this symbiotic relationship that allows a building or space to attain a “soul”. Through the adaptive re-use of a Richmond, Virginia building, this thesis project explores strategies of staging physical interaction and organic experiences through art and culture in the context of a mixed-use niche hotel.

O objeto de estudo desta dissertação é o estudo de edificações de uso misto dentro de contexto urbano. Serão estudados obras referenciais já concluídas para que se possam avaliar as relações e o desempenho deste tipo de edificação em seu contexto A partir de quatro casos de diferentes características, escala, volumetria, contexto e uso distintos, serão aprofundadas as analises. Apoiados por de métodos de representação gráfica serão analisadas: a relação das edificações com seu contexto urbano, a relação de seus espaços com a escala humana, a composição volumétrica da edificação, a forma como foi implantada, as articulações produzidas , a relação dos perímetros com os espaços de domínio público entre outros aspectos de relevância para a pesquisa. Com isso, busca-se analisar as potencialidades e funcionamento das edificações de uso misto. / The purpose of this dissertation is the study of mixed-use buildings within urban contexts. Through the selection and analysis of reference works already built, it was possible to value the relationships and performance of this type of building in its respective context. These analyzes were focused on four cases of different characteristics, scales, volumetrics, contexts and uses. Supported by graphic representation methods, the following criteria were approached: the relationship of buildings with their urban context, the relation of their spaces to the human scale, the criteria of volumetric composition, the way they were inserted on site, the articulations produced, the relation between their perimeters and the spaces of public domain, as well as other aspects that were relevant to the research. Therefore, it was intended to analyze the potentialities and the functioning of the so defined mixed-use buildings.

O objeto de estudo desta dissertação é o estudo de edificações de uso misto dentro de contexto urbano. Serão estudados obras referenciais já concluídas para que se possam avaliar as relações e o desempenho deste tipo de edificação em seu contexto A partir de quatro casos de diferentes características, escala, volumetria, contexto e uso distintos, serão aprofundadas as analises. Apoiados por de métodos de representação gráfica serão analisadas: a relação das edificações com seu contexto urbano, a relação de seus espaços com a escala humana, a composição volumétrica da edificação, a forma como foi implantada, as articulações produzidas , a relação dos perímetros com os espaços de domínio público entre outros aspectos de relevância para a pesquisa. Com isso, busca-se analisar as potencialidades e funcionamento das edificações de uso misto. / The purpose of this dissertation is the study of mixed-use buildings within urban contexts. Through the selection and analysis of reference works already built, it was possible to value the relationships and performance of this type of building in its respective context. These analyzes were focused on four cases of different characteristics, scales, volumetrics, contexts and uses. Supported by graphic representation methods, the following criteria were approached: the relationship of buildings with their urban context, the relation of their spaces to the human scale, the criteria of volumetric composition, the way they were inserted on site, the articulations produced, the relation between their perimeters and the spaces of public domain, as well as other aspects that were relevant to the research. Therefore, it was intended to analyze the potentialities and the functioning of the so defined mixed-use buildings.

Within the United States, a growing sense of detachment exists. Conditions in both urban and suburban contexts have created a sense of social detachment where spaces do not exist which encourage social interaction. Without this social activity, neighbors become almost a disposable commodity as relationships never fully develop. This thesis will be an examination of environments which do and do not foster community relationships and an implementation of community into an urban multi-family residence. A major part of the problem is the recent move to the suburbs, but urban buildings also exhibit a lack of spaces which help encourage a community among neighbors. Suburban residents are separated by both spatial and physical boundaries. In addition to this, a social boundary is also created by a lack of interaction between the primary unit and the street as well as a reliance on the automobile which blocks any chance of spontaneous interaction. The typical urban multi-family building exists in a context that and provides some spaces which give pedestrian traffic a chance for spontaneous interaction, but provides these by accident as these spaces are usually provided only as a means to get to one's unit. To discover what community is and how it can thrive, many research methods will be used. Existing building projects which have dealt with this problem will be examined; these precedents include residential buildings such as the Bedok Court Condominium in Singapore and large scale urban areas such as New York City. Theory on community within other fields such as sociology and psychology will also be looked at to see what it is that fosters community, and what blocks it. At the end of the project, a model will be designed for an example site within a typical city of the Unites States where the majority of the area is defined by disconnected neighborhoods. The model being sought will not simply be a multi-family building with community space, but an environment where the neighborhood community can grow and thrive.

Thesis (B. Arch.)--Roger Williams University, 2009. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Feb. 5, 2010) Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

This thesis has been pursued in the primary interest of exploring the relationship between planning and architecture specific to the mixed-use planning and development process. More acutely, this research has been conducted to investigate how the relationships and communication socially construct architectural technology. Through a constructivist lens, and reaching back to historic themes of human placemaking, this work reveals, that, history has, but yet again, to repeat itself. As people make choices about the built environment, those choices gain momentum, both socially and materially. Mixed-use development is one typological choice that is making a noticeable re-emergence. Amidst a suburban hegemony, will mixed-use development regain “typological momentum?” / text

The built landscape of the United States began to change dramatically after World War II. Federal Housing Administration guaranteed loans, the rise in automobile use, and Euclidian zoning all coincided to encourage growth further from the cities at a rapid rate. After fifty years the problems associated with this sprawl pattern of development have forced municipalities to examine more sustainable development patterns. Greyfield properties are considered the declining, underperforming and vacant shopping centers, big-box properties and malls. They are symbols of an unsustainable urban pattern of development that has continued to leapfrog to less expensive greenfield sites. However, as cities begin to focus on becoming more sustainable these greyfield sites can be opportunities in disguise. Greyfield sites can be redeveloped into mixed-use communities that not only allow cities to direct growth back into the center but also achieve numerous Smart Growth goals. The case studies in this report, Mizner Park in Boca Raton, Florida and Belmar in Lakewood, Colorado, are examples of the value of greyfield redevelopment as a growth management tool. / text

Sewoon Mixed Use Building was the 1st Mixed Use building in Korea and the largest electricity shops and apartment in Asia at that time. In 1970s, it was the symbol of rebirth of Korea from the demolition of Korean War. However, Sewoon Mixed Use Building was a mega structure that was not harmonious with the urban context. Although architects thought shops and elevated streets of Sewoon Mixed Use Building could vitalize the vicinity, it did not work as their ideal plan. As a result, the mega structure has been working as an urban wall that makes nearby districts such a slum area. Moreover, people don’t want to live in the apartment of Sewoon Mixed Use Building so that many housing units have been changed into offices. In this situation, I want to find an architectural solution to revitalize Sewoon Mixed Use Building area by reusing the old mega structures. The Sewoon mixed use building is divided in four buildings. People call them (Sewoon, Daerim, Jinyang, Sinseong) just Sewoon Plaza and the area Sewoon Plaza is located is considered as Sewoon Plaza district. This study focused on two buildings (Sewoon, Daerim). These two buildings are located nearby Jongmyo shrine park and Cheonggye creek park, and they have coonenient public tranfortation condition. Therefore, they have a potential background to be a successful renovated project. The project goal is to make an incubator to change nearby area including Sewoon buildings. The first strategy is making an arcade. Through this long arcade, new Sewoon plaza could become a part of urban context by connecting nearby urban streets and parks. This condition would make people visit Sewoon plaza easier, and new programs of Sewoon plaza would spread out and change slaum areas at the same time. The second strategy is to add new programs. New progrmas are apartment, shop, restaurant, studio for shop, theater, museum and gellery. Residents who can stay even at night are essential element to escape a slum area. Shops that sell artistic craft items and studios for them would make Sewoon arcade attractive. Museum and theater are for young artist, independent movie and small play. In the future, if new programs work well in Sewoon arcade, neighbor buildings would accept these programs and the slum area would disappear continuously. / text