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Place-Sensitive-Design A Visitor Center Design of the National Park Service
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Vo, Trang
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Year and Degree
2010, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
Abstract
Since World War II, the National Park Service (NPS) has received more and more visitors. To accommodate the large amount of visitors, a number of new constructions, especially facility buildings, need to be built in the parks. This scenario puts the National Park Service into a dilemma between ensuring education, recreation and inspiration of the parks, while preserving the natural and cultural values for the sake of future generations. To mitigate the dilemma, the park buildings requires a place-sensitive design that not only ensures high quality service for visitors and minimizes the human impact on nature, but also evoke a sense of place. My thesis considers critical regionalism as the basis of place-sensitive design of the park architecture. The implementation of critical reigonalism’s principles in the park architecture creates buildings that respond to the identities of places, and hence, harmonizes with the landscape and environment of a place.
Committee
Patricia Kucker, MARCH (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, MARCH (Committee Chair)
Pages
81 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
Critical regionalism
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National park service buildings
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place sensitive design
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visitor center
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Vo, T. (2010).
Place-Sensitive-Design A Visitor Center Design of the National Park Service
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276974229
APA Style (7th edition)
Vo, Trang.
Place-Sensitive-Design A Visitor Center Design of the National Park Service.
2010. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276974229.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Vo, Trang. "Place-Sensitive-Design A Visitor Center Design of the National Park Service." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276974229
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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