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- Washington D.C. is a high-pressure, fast-paced place to live and work. According to sociologist Ray Oldenburg, urban environments require "third places," informal public gathering spaces that are vital to community development and provide a social way to relieve stress. This project looks at...
- Author:
- Elmore, Rebecca Jane
- Keyword:
- urbanism, Ray Oldenburg, third place, pop-up, and kit-of-parts
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- This paper and design project pursues the role and value of textiles in interiors. Textiles are an ancient element of domestic life and they remain essential in our environments today. On one hand textiles and their role have not deviated from the basic roles of covering, softening, and...
- Author:
- Kunselman, Molly Ann
- Keyword:
- Weaving, Textiles, Branding, Space Planning, Installation, and Interior Design
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan
- Committee Member(s):
- Bishop, Emily and Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- Pickering Creek Audubon Center is devoted to increasing environmental literacy through education and outreach to the community. The Center's 400 acre property is located on Pickering Creek of the Wye East River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. The Center operates educational programs on and...
- Author:
- Hollingsworth, Brooke
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- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Shlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- It is apparent that the current office workplace often is isolating and stressful, with two-thirds of Americans identifying work as their main cause of stress in a study completed by the American Psychological Association in 2007. Unpleasant working conditions often occurring in dull cubicle...
- Author:
- Scheivert, Stephanie
- Keyword:
- Collaboration, Workplace, Retreat, and Interior Design
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis investigates the study of subtractive architecture, It examines sight condition to inspire a unique design with a sustainable structure in a harsh environment. The idea of subtractive architecture through a geological mass refers back two thousand years ago, the Nabataeans started to...
- Author:
- AlSagri, Hessa Mohammed
- Keyword:
- Turkey, Geological Mass, Structure, Hospitality, Terrain, and Interior Design
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Committee Member(s):
- Arnett, Krystal and Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- The human phenomenon of the Sublime experience in nature is treasured, though difficult to quantify and manufacture. Skyland resort Shenandoah National Park's has the potential to become such a site in which visitors are encouraged to pause and fully experience the Sublime. As the highest point...
- Author:
- Raviv, Tom
- Keyword:
- Shenandoah, Overlooks, National Park, Skyland, Framing, and Sublime
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- More than 500,000 children with autism are entering adulthood, and are faced with "a disjointed adult service provider network, age-related medical issues, developmental regression and an aging parent population"1. According to longitudinal studies, the absence of continued vocational options...
- Author:
- O'Malley, Meghan McGeorge
- Keyword:
- Vocational Office, Residential Model, Adults with ASD, Transitional Housing, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Interior Design
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily M
- Committee Member(s):
- Arnett Henson, Krystal
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- People diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have notbeen acclimated into typical society due to the lack of inclusion with non-ASD classmates in the educational environment of schools and colleges.Through innovative and effective school design utilizing proven beneficialdesign aspects...
- Author:
- Almadani, Maryam Majdi
- Keyword:
- Behavior, Education, Friendly, Autism, Prekindergarten, and Inclusion
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.T.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- An assisted living residence for seniors + animal shelter This thesis proposes to synthesize the need of socialization for animals in shelters and the benefits of interacting with animals for seniors in assisted living residences. By designing a hybrid living facility that is both an assisted...
- Author:
- Diehl, Stacey
- Keyword:
- assisted living, seniors, progressive animal shelter, and dogs
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan
- Committee Member(s):
- Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- The youth hostel has been loved as one of the most inexpensive accommodations by travelers for over 100 years. Usually, the purposes of using hostels can be classified roughly into two groups: getting a budget priced room or socializing. However, most hostel designs are based on dormitory...
- Author:
- Park, Jimin
- Keyword:
- Hostel, Indoor Camping, Resting, Personal Retreat, Hospitality Design, and Socializing
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Committee Member(s):
- Henson, Krystal Arnett
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- A thorough study into the societal differences between males/females and masculinity/femininity reveals the existence of a dichotomy, primarily defined by, "a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities."I The two groups of people are seen as binary...
- Author:
- Wilkes, Courtney Susan
- Keyword:
- Sex, Androgyny, Gender, Autonomy, Dichotomy, and Ambiguity
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan
- Committee Member(s):
- Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- Designing the Hyphen: Linking identity and architecture in Bacardi's former Miami headquartersBuildings do not stand still. They reflect and affect the cultural, political and historical identity of the moment in which they were created - and both reflect and affect the moments that follow.Shifts...
- Author:
- Sans Werner, Claudia Maria
- Keyword:
- Miami, art, plaza, Cuban-American, modernism, and identity
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Committee Member(s):
- Traeger, Brooke
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- Creative, interdisciplinary exchange remains a largely unexploredfrontier in the culinary world. Furthermore, no venue currently exists inWashington, DC that allows chefs and creatives to collaborate with eachother. The city's newly dynamic dining scene and artistic community isfertile ground for...
- Author:
- Hiersteiner, Jacqueline Carole
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- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- America has become a nation defined by its consumerism. In a single day, Americans are exposed to over five thousand advertisements that encourage the relentless consumption of cheap and disposable products. The act of shopping has become a mindless experience, one that is represented by...
- Author:
- Van Hise, Kristen Wong
- Keyword:
- Marimekko, Consumerism, Pedagogy, and Retail
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the advent of email and online bill pay, the United States Postal Service has found a decreasing demand for physical Post Office sites and has begun closing facilities nationwide, leaving behind thousands of uninhabited buildings. Looking to the near future, it is predicted that The United...
- Author:
- Pierson, Widney
- Keyword:
- Community Markets, United States Post Office, USPS, Adaptive Reuse, and Coffee Shops
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- For over a century music clubs have presented entertainment, social networking and community in environments that have spanned numerous genres and movements. These venues are of paramount importance to music appreciators and artists from all genres and cultures. For those who favor "indie"...
- Author:
- Filoromo, Kristen Marie
- Keyword:
- Music Scene, Indie, Co-Op, Pop Culture, Interior Design, and Human Behaviors
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- The Solar Do-Nothing Bridge investigates the potential re-use of the 11th Street Bridge inWashington, DC as a place for amusing recreation and community gathering.The bridge will be fully off-grid, obtaining all necessary power and water from the rain, sun andthe visitors themselves, through...
- Author:
- Russo, Leah Clare
- Keyword:
- interactive, amusement, Eames, park, and community
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- The focus of this thesis is on nomadic work culture and the use of parasite architecture in urban environments. Dining, shopping, entertainment, and hospitality are all functions that take place in a designated space over a relatively brief period of time. The manner in which we work is vastly...
- Author:
- Heekin, Annemarie
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- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the past fifty years there has been a dramatic incline of furniture and furnishings in the municipal waste stream. The amount of excess that is terminating in landfills will continue to rise unless there is an intervention that occurs that alters the way that consumers operate. This Thesis...
- Author:
- Zimmermann, Cara
- Keyword:
- Excess, Craftsperson, Consumption, Consumer, Designer, and Collaboration
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- For this thesis I will be studying the tourist, the fragmented memories of a day's tourist activities, and how I might be able to create a place of repose for people along a tourist network. I will be studying the National Mall as a tourist network. I will also be exploring the option of using an...
- Author:
- Chapman, Lindsey Ann
- Keyword:
- Meida, Fragmented Memories, Collective Memory, Design, Interior Design, and Memory
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Traeger, Brooke
- Committee Member(s):
- Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- Chronic social stress severely impacts one's health and well-being with cumulative everyday stressors being more detrimental than acute periods of stress. Nature is proven to be restorative and immediately reduces levels of psychological and physiological stress. It is the fractals within...
- Author:
- Fatni, Melissa Anne
- Keyword:
- Stress, Biophilic Design, Fractal Design, Biophilia, and Well-Being
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan
- Committee Member(s):
- Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- Online-only retailers have begun to experiment with physical locations, due to the fact that there are certain items that customers will always want to touch, feel, and try-on. This cannot be replicated online. This creates new obligations of space for the brands that were initially conceived to...
- Author:
- Grasso, Natalie
- Keyword:
- Eyewear, Screens, Projection, Brick and mortar, Frames, and Retail
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- With the rise in natural and man-made disasters, those affected are prone to develop mental anxiety and stress due to their experiences. The militarized type operational systems for preparation and planning of shelter areas during disaster relief efforts must address the emotional health and lack...
- Author:
- Ripley, Amanda
- Keyword:
- school, privacy & respite, disaster relief, mental health, transformational, and emergency shelter
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Committee Member(s):
- Bishop, Emily and Arnett Henson, Krystal
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- While other more affluent areas of Washington DC are currently experiencing bursts of development with new culinary destinations to explore, East of the Anacostia River, there are only 3 sit-down restaurants to serve over 100,000 people. While the majority of the residents in this part of town...
- Author:
- Griffith, Ashley E'lea
- Keyword:
- Voodoo, Food, Community, Butcher, Open Kitchen, and Market
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Committee Member(s):
- Arnett-Henson, Krystal and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- To Each His Home will educate people on design with the goal of making them better consumers and giving them more power over their choices. This idea arose from the overwhelming welter of materials and resources that inform but do not teach. The result will be more informed consumers and...
- Author:
- Belser, Mikell
- Keyword:
- Interactive Learning and Interior Design
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- The PTSD Veteran, deterred by a stigma associated with those diagnosed and receiving treatment for this disorder, are not seeking out or receiving treatment. As a result, alternative treatment centers are attracting veterans in need of help. These treatment centers focus on a re-connection of the...
- Author:
- Potrafke, Linda Caroline
- Keyword:
- Veteran's, Ocean Therapy, PTSD, Wave Pool, Water Therapy, and Interior Design
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Committee Member(s):
- Bishop, Emily, Schlesinger, Christy, and Traeger, Brooke
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- While music can mean something different to every person, the collective experience of music is fundamental to our social nature. Music acts as an instigator for the sharing of stories, ideas and emotions. In today's society, digital formats make it easier than ever to buy music, but the...
- Author:
- Chisholm, Katherine A
- Keyword:
- interior, connection, music, marketplace, digital, and community
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Schlesinger, Christy
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- Upper Arlington and Dublin Crew teams have been competitive high school rowing organizations for over twenty years. Currently the team is housed in what was supposed to be a temporary compound, a compound that provides no security, no shelter and no identity for the organization. By analyzing the...
- Author:
- Osterhout, Whitney Louise
- Keyword:
- Crew, Rowing, Body Motion, and Interior Design
- GW Unit:
- Interior Design
- Degree:
- M.A.
- Advisor:
- Healey, Jonathan and Bishop, Emily
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation