A condição extemporânea do complexo de pavilhões Torino Esposizioni, em Turim, na Itália, foi o que provocou e guiou o estudo realizado neste trabalho. As reformas que adaptaram os espaços desde a inauguração em 1939, modificaram a trajetória dos pavilhões, desconstruindo a linearidade de sua linha do tempo e os conduzindo até os dias de hoje. A intervenção mais expressiva, comandada pelo engenheiro italiano Pier Luigi Nervi, alçou o complexo à categoria de patrimônio, qualificando os espaços tanto formalmente quanto historicamente. A forma atual dos pavilhões é a expressão de sua extemporaneidade, revelando as etapas de sua trajetória. As intervenções foram aqui estudadas considerando a dimensão imaterial da transformação: a influência do tempo e das memórias nas decisões que o profissional responsável pela reforma toma durante o processo de projeto. / The extemporaneous condition of the Torino Esposizioni pavilions, in Turin, Italy, caused and guided de study here presented. The renovations that adapted the spaces since the inauguration in 1939, changed the trajectory, deconstructing the linearity of their timeline and leading to these days. The most expressive intervention was leaded by the italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, and lifted the pavilions to the heritage category, qualifying the spaces formally and also historically. The today shape os the pavilions is te expression of their extemporality, and shows the phases of their trajetory. The interventions here studied considered the immaterial dimension of transformation: the influence of the time and memory in the decisions made by the architect during the project process.

The basic objective is of adaptation of the castle is integration to tourism development in the region and simultaneously make the castle and town more attractive for residents. The resort´s own castle is functionally divided into three centers. The first courtyard is the tourist center of the region, the second courtyard recreation center and third courtyard cultural centre. Three courtyard are surrounded by restored rampart promenade, which also connects the castle courtyard with recreational and educative castle park, in which are stationed various pavilions informing tourists about the historical, architectural and natural values of Brtnice and its environs. In the park is also located amphitheater for cultural and musical events. The castle has become a great park of activities pulling into its bowels town visitors and inhabitants of Brtnice themselves. The main dominant of the complex is new tower Brtnice, which grows on the historic footprint of burnt tower. High-tech architecture of tower attracts visitors of the city and is the starting point of castle viewing. It brings together the functions of the Information Center, phaenomania, souvenir shop, cafe and roof garden, which is also a cafe terrace and outlook. Oriels of tower are oriented to the surrounding important historical monuments. Visitors pass through peripheral “gallery of knowledge” and recognize beauty of the town and its environs.

Near the end of a building's lifecycle, many times when the building is no longer deemed useful, decisions are made whether to wait out a new tenant for the structure or to destroy it to make way for new construction. If the latter, while the building waits, its materials are left to the elements to decay away through natural weathering over time. To give these environments new life would not only reinvigorate the surrounding area with a renewed purpose, but is also a much more sustainable process of construction than simply demolishing and creating whole new structures. To be able to capitalize on the structure, material, and identifying characteristics of an existing building is the goal of a well performed adaptive re-use project. This project outlines steps and the process in which an architect should complete as they go through the phases of construction for this process. The steps that I developed to complete this process are Observation, Preservation, Renovation, and Activation. Through the completion of this process a respectful interchange of ideas, character, and structure is shared between the old and new. The host of this process of adaptive re-use is a Catholic school located in Pittsburgh PA, originally built in 1875. Over its long history it has seen many changes and additions to its original construction but has since been abandoned for over ten years. This thesis takes this building and explains the process of re use for taking this abandoned Catholic school and creating an artist residency and community complex. / Master of Architecture / As the defining edge of human expansion raises our population to a critical point, to house and provide for this continuous growth requires the construction of spaces to grow with it at a comparable rate. As newer spaces get created, older spaces become emptied to hopefully be filled by another entity. Brand new buildings, as exciting as the notion can be, will continuously become less prevalent in the world of architectural design as our method of conservation and architectural preservation gets better to match this rise in density. This thesis outlines the process one should complete when renovating or adding onto an existing structure. The host of this study is a catholic school from 1875 that is being adapted and re-used to become an artist residency and cultural art space.

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of selected school board members across the country regarding the quality and condition, maintenance, and improvement and renovation of existing public school facilities within their district. There were three research questions in this study. The first question examined how selected school board members perceived the quality and condition of existing public school facilities. The second question examined how they perceived the maintenance of these facilities. The third question examined what actions had been taken by the school boards of these selected members to address the improvement and renovation of these facilities. A descriptive research methodology was employed in this study. A nationwide stratified random sample had been selected to receive a coded mailed questionnaire consisting of twenty-one survey items, seven for each of the three research questions. The questionnaire included demographic information designed to allow the researcher to disaggregate the data received according to each of nine geographic regions throughout the country. Two follow-up mailings were made to non-respondents to increase the data collection return rate. Incomplete returns were not included in the data analysis. Frequency tables and descriptive statistics were constructed to display results with respect to each of the three research questions. The researcher found that the results of this study did not support significant recommendations that affirm findings in previous studies. Those findings described a continual pattern in the failure of school districts across the country to properly maintain the quality and condition, maintenance, and improvement and renovation of existing public school facilities. This study surveyed selected school board members nationally for the first time regarding their perceptions on these issues. / Ed. D.

The purpose of this study was to look at the possible influence the renovation process had on student achievement as measured by performance on the Standards of Learning (SOL) in the areas of mathematics and reading at the eighth grade level in the Commonwealth of Virginia. For purposes of this study a descriptive research methodology was used to determine the possible influences the renovation process had on student achievement. To conduct such research, Standards of Learning (SOL) test scores in the areas of mathematics and reading, from middle schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia were used one year prior to the renovation process, during the renovation process, and one year after the renovation process. Depending on the complexity of the renovation, SOL test scores were collected from two to four years during the renovation process. Demographic variables were analyzed to ascertain stability of the student populations over the period of time. Variables such as ethnicity, socio-economic factors, and highly qualified teachers served as demographic variables. These variables were used to control the status of each school student population over the period of the stages of the renovation process. The main research question for this study was: Does the renovation process of a school building influence student achievement? This research question was supported by two sub-questions that guided the study. The first sub-question examined the differences in student scores as measured on the SOL assessment at the eighth grade level in mathematics prior to, during, and after the renovation process. The second sub-question examined the differences in student scores as measured on the SOL assessment at the eighth grade level in reading prior to, during, and after the renovation process. Findings from the study indicated that a statistically significant relationship did not exist between the means of student scores when compared over the three stages of the renovation process, in mathematics and reading. A statistically significant relationship, however, was found when comparing the mean student scores in reading before and after the renovation process. Based on the reading findings, this study indicates that building conditions play a vital role on student achievement. / Ed. D.

This dissertation examines school renovation and student achievement. The study focuses on the relationship between a complete renovation of a school facility and its influence on student achievement before, during, and after the renovation process. This is a replication study of previous research, Mayo (2012), which focused on middle schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia that were identified as a complete renovation project during the years of 2004-2010. This study utilized the procedures and the descriptive research methodology established in the Mayo (2012) study. Which allowed for the same three demographic variables (minority, socioeconomic, and teacher quality) to be addressed. The only modification made was the selection of a new grade level (K-5) focusing on elementary schools. The research question posed in this study, Does the complete renovation process, which includes structural, plumbing, electrical, and heating and air conditioning changes of a school building, influence student achievement? Out of 514 school construction projects listed by the Virginia Department of Education during 2004-2010, 89 were classified as renovation projects. Out of the 89, only 39 met the criteria of elementary schools servicing fifth grade students. The 39 elementary schools were then further reviewed, and 15 met the criteria of fulfilling the four components of a complete renovation; structural, plumbing, electrical, and heating/air conditioning. The findings of the 15 schools identified as being a complete renovation showed no statistical significance between the variables and were not statistically significant when comparing the fifth grade mathematics and reading student performance to each stage of the renovation process. / Ed. D.

This dissertation examined the possible influence a complete renovation of a school facility had on student achievement as measured by performance on the Standards of Learning (SOL) in the areas of End-of-Course (EOC) Algebra I and EOC Reading in high schools within the Commonwealth of Virginia. This study replicated a prior study that researched the possible influence the complete renovation process had on student achievement as measured by performance on the SOL in the areas of mathematics and reading at the eighth grade level in the Commonwealth of Virginia. For this study, a quantitative descriptive research methodology was used to determine the possible influences the renovation process would have on student achievement. To conduct such research, SOL scores in the areas of EOC Algebra I and EOC Reading, from high schools in Virginia were used one year prior to the renovation, during the renovation, and one year after the renovation. The Virginia Department of Education recorded 514 school construction projects during the period beginning with the 2004-2005 school year through the 2010-2011 school year. From these 514 projects, only 20 projects met the criteria of being high school construction projects having conducted a complete renovation. In order to determine stability of the student population and the quality of teachers across the renovation period, an analysis of demographic variables was conducted. These variables included the percentage of minority students, socioeconomic status, and percentage of highly qualified teachers. No statistical significance between the variables over the course of the renovation was found establishing sameness of these variables. ANOVAs and t-tests were conducted to analyze student achievement across the renovation periods. The findings of the 20 high schools identified as having conducted a complete renovation were not statistically significant when comparing the EOC Algebra I and EOC Reading student performance to each stage of the renovation process. However, a positive trend was indicated when findings revealed an increase in the mean scaled score of mathematics when comparing the pre-renovation stage to the post-renovation stage. / Ed. D.

This is a study to develop standards to be use by industrial arts teachers, school administrators, and architects when planning new industrial arts laboratories or renovating existing industrial arts laboratories for grades seven through twelve in the State of Texas.

Esta dissertação apresenta e analisa as experiências realizadas em São Paulo e Lisboa com reabilitação urbana de suas áreas centrais, degradadas fisicamente e habitadas por população provida de escassos recursos econômicos, com o objetivo de apontar aspectos limitantes e outros bem sucedidos na gestão do processo de reabilitação, do ponto de vista institucional e operacional de sua implementação pelos governos municipais. Resguardadas as especificidades dessas duas realidades abordadas, a dissertação destaca as similaridades referentes ao papel desempenhado pela dimensão habitacional como força motriz alavancando o processo da reabilitação, suas premissas, e a concepção de escritórios de base geográfica (GTL em Lisboa e EA em São Paulo), enquanto extensão do poder público municipal para coordenar a reabilitação. Assinala a importância do suporte político e social e a adoção de um modelo institucional alternativo, por meio desses escritórios, que viabilize a instauração de um processo participativo e integrado no planejamento e na gestão da reabilitação urbana, buscando na experiência portuguesa elementos para reflexão sobre a insipiente experiência brasileira. / This study consists of a presentation and analysis of the experiences undertaken in São Paulo and Lisboa, concerning inner city urban rehabilitation, of physically degraded areas inhabited by low income households. It aims at pointing out from an institutional and operational perspective, the weaknesses and strengths, opportunities and constraints within the management of the rehabilitation processes, for their implementation by the municipal governments. Despite the particularities of each reality, it highlights similarities regarding the role performed by the housing universe as propulsive factor triggering the rehabilitation processes, their premises, and the conception of local field offices (GTL in Lisbon and EA in Sao Paulo), operating as a branch of the municipal governments for the coordination of the urban rehabilitation process. It outlines, as well, the importance of political and societal supports, and the adoption of an alternative institutional arrangement in the municipality, expressed in the creation of these local field offices, in order to promote a participatory and integrated approach in the urban rehabilitation planning and management. For this purpose, it seeks for elements in the Portuguese experience that could contribute to the reflection of the recent and insipient Brazilian experience.

The purpose of this study was to analyze current practices in the revitalization of school buildings and assimilate data that can be used by school administrators to make informed decisions about the revitalization of school facilities. Through a review of literature, elements for planning the revitalization of school facilities were identified and analyzed. These elements were included in an interview guide used during on-site visits to selected revitalized schools. Nine schools renovated since 1985 in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina were chosen to participate in the study. The treatment of data was reported around the use of identified elements of planning for renovating school buildings. Data from the schools were divided by states to make comparisons. The study indicated that structural soundness, program support, site, and cost are four areas of concern when planning for the revitalization of a school. The specific planning elements included the development of educational specifications; attention to site condition; consideration of playground areas; importance of the exterior appearance of school buildings; space utilization; condition of mechanical and electrical systems; importance of energy efficiency, development of barrier free environments, treatment of thermal environments; consideration of acoustics; management of visual environments; selection of furniture and equipment; and attention to aesthetics. As a result of the findings of this study, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) Planning for the revitalization of school buildings differs from one school to another even when the schools are in the same system. (2) States do not employ facility planners to help school systems revitalize their school buildings. (3) Many school administrators do not know how to assess the condition of the schools in their districts. (4) Administrators and other individuals involved in revitalizing school facilities want more information on how to systematically plan for the modernization of school buildings.