To the average American citizen, the thought of constructing a public building is completely unachievable. With price points in the millions of dollars (Building Journal), average citizens rely upon the government, wealthy individuals, or corporations to construct the communities they live in. However, the contemporary landscape of financing buildings has provided an alternative: crowdfunding. Crowdfunding, or the pooling of money from a large number of individuals in order to collectively reach a larger funding goal (Davies), injects a democratic system into the traditional construction process, allowing individuals to vote on projects they support by either choosing to fund or not to fund the project. At this time, buildings that use crowdfunding strategies are designed in the same manner as those funded from traditional sources. However, this reliance on traditional design methods is proving to be detrimental to crowdfunded projects with 70% of all projects failing. By divorcing crowdfunded buildings from e design methodologies that are used to design traditional buildings, a new mode of design can be created that is more beneficial to crowdfunded projects. This new mode of design will capitalize on the differences in how these types of projects and traditional projects are funded. Crowdfunded projects are formed through the accumulation of resources over a length of time whereas traditional projects are given all of their resources at once. In order to take advantage of this rate of accumulation, crowdfunded projects should be defined by the aggregation of individual parts which can be funded independently. As parts are funded, they are added to a growing whole. While the final form will be unknown to the advocates of the project and the project designer, they will be responsible for designing the elements that will amount to the building and composing the strategy for how the elements will be organized. This process will allow the project to adapt the resources at hand and the desires of the community, gene ting a manifestation of the project's support by the community in real time. / 0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

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Simulation is often used to model production processes with the aim of understanding and improving them. In many cases, however, information produced by simulation is not detailed enough and can be misinterpreted. The use of visualization in combination with simulation can provide project participants with a detailed-level model to prevent misinterpretation of information and to understand the production process. The purpose of this research is to automate the visualization process as a post-simulation tool through sharing interactive information between simulation and visualization. The proposed methodology has been applied to the production line of modular buildings with the output of lean, simulation, and visualization in the form of animation. Based on the new scheduling developed by applying lean principles, a simulation model was built and its output was extracted to an ASCII file used to build 3D visualization developed using Maxscript in 3D Studio Max for automation of visualization process. / Construction Engineering and Management

Mobila verksamhetslokaler erbjuder flexibel lokalförsörjning som alternativ till permanent utbyggnad, eller under tiden som befintliga lokaler renoveras eller byggs om. Denna flexibla möjlighet används dock i en ganska liten omfattning på marknaden. För att öka lokalernas användning finns det därför ett behov av en marknadsundersökning som identifierar de faktorer som kunden värderar. Utredningen syftar till att få fram vad kunden värderar då han eller hon hyr och/eller använder en temporär lokal, och möjligen identifiera nya element som inte finns i marknadens utbud. För att få fram värderingsfaktorer har en litteraturundersökning implementerats och samtidigt har 13 personliga intervjuer genomförts. Intervjuer skedde med personer som använder dessa lokaler och parallellt de som tecknat kontrakt för att hyra dessa lokaler. Studieobjekt är kontor, skola och förskola. / Mobile buildings offer a flexible supply of buildings as an alternative to permanent expansion or while the existing facilities being renovated or rebuilt. This flexible option is used, however in a rather small scale in the market. Thus, to increase consumption of mobile buildings, there is a need for market research that will contribute to find the factors that customer value. The purpose of research is to investigate customer values when it leases and/or uses temporary buildings, and possibly encourage new elements that do not exist in the market range yet. To obtain the valuation factors have been implemented a literature survey and 13 personal interviews were conducted. Interviews took place with people who use these buildings and those who entered a contract to rent these buildings. The study objects are offices, schools and kindergartens.

Magistro baigiamojo darbo tikslas – suprojektuoti lietuvių bendruomenės namus Londone ant vandens lietuvių emigrantams bendrauti, socialinei paramai teikti, visuomenei informuoti ir šviesti. Darbą sudaro dvi darbo dalys: tiriamoji (tekstinė) ir projektinė. Tiriamojoje dalyje pateikta: surinkta medžiaga, susijusi su modulinių pastatų, pastatų ant vandens ir bendruomenės centrų projektavimo ypatumais, jų koncepcijomis ir įgyvendinimo rezultatais, funkcijų ir formų kitimo istoriniame kontekste apžvalga; alternatyvių situacijų apžvalga ir pasirinktos situacijos analizė, problemiškumas, poreikiai ir galimybės, plėtros ateityje planai. Projektinę dalį sudaro: urbanistinis situacijos planšetas (M 1:500) ir pastato su artimiausia aplinka maketas (M 1:100); konceptualūs galimi sprendimo variantai; detalus projektuojamo pastato sprendinys – generalinis planas, planai, pjūviai, fasadai, modulio detalizacija, eksterjero ir interjero perspektyviniai vaizdai. / The aim of this master thesis is to design Lithuanian community centre in London on water for Lithuanian emigrants to communicate, educate, social support, and public information. The paper consists of analytical and project parts. Analytical part presents collected main material about modular buildings, buildings on water, design features of community centers, concepts and final results of implementation, review of their function and form development in historical context; review of alternative situations for centre and selected location analysis, issues, needs and possibilities, development plans. Project part consists of urban situation tablet (M 1:500) and building model with surroundings (M 1:100); conceptual solutions, detailed projected building – master plan, plans, sections, elevations, module detailing, exterior and interior perspective views.