Architecture (Pegah Zamani)
Sustainable Synergies: Adaptive Environments for Resilient and Healthy Communities
First-Year Scholars: Rinna Gacusan, Aydeen Kibra, Sally Nguyen, Jaiden Rennie, & Abigail Sims
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What makes a community sustainable, equitable and healthy to serve people of different
backgrounds, resources, and abilities? What is the impact of the built environment
on human health, safety, and welfare at multiple scales, from buildings to cities?
This research instills in students a holistic understanding of Sustainable Development Goals and the role of the design process in integrating multiple factors to shape the built environment in different scales. Our projects aim to deepen understanding of diverse factors (such as socio-cultural) that impact the sustainability, equity and health in a community. The projects challenge students to solve complex problems by effective collaboration skills, emerging sustainable systems, and innovative design strategies. Students would be engaged in design research projects advocating the integration of multiple factors in shaping healthy environments — framed by diverse ecological, social, cultural, political, and economic forces.
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At the end of the project, students should be able to:
- Locate primary and secondary sources related to their field of study
- Synthesize and analyze past research in their field of study
- Collect, analyze, synthesize, organize, and interpret data from their research study
- Work effectively as part of a team
- Write a research paper
- Present their research/creative activity to an audience (e.g., poster, oral presentation)
- Present at the conferences such as ʳɫÊÓƵ’s Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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The types of activities that students will be engaged in each week includes the following – All will be mentored by faculty:
- Participating in regular team meetings with faculty [for 1 hour per week] – Hybrid meetings while working remotely mostly/online
- Assisting in data collection and precedent studies
- Organizing data and developing the literature review
- Creating analytical (architectural) diagrams and design drawings -- knowing software
(Rhino/Photoshop/Illustrator) will be a plus
- Synthesizing research key findings and preparing presentations
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Modality (Face-to-Face, Hybrid, Online)
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