Projects
We are developing an online database of Hamer Center funded projects which is searchable by project classification (curriculum and research based project) and project type (community planning research, design-based research, ecological planning and design, design build, and technical assistance).
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Design/Build Implementation Technical Assistance |
Curriculum-Based Project |
| Corl Street Elementary: crafting play space | ||
| 2011 | ||
Peter Aeschbacher, Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture As part of a public design project for a 3rd year Landscape Architecture Class, Larch 312, this project is an example of how to develop a play space from concept through fruition with the participatio... |
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Technical Assistance | Curriculum-Based Project |
| Urban Landscape Studio - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||
| 2011 | ||
C. Timothy Baird, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Transforming urban vacant land through the installation of performative landscapes has been one solution to the problem that has plagued rust belt cities in recent decades. Today Philadelphia has the... |
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Technical Assistance | Curriculum-Based Project |
| Urban Revitalization Studio - Lewistown, PA | ||
| 2011 | ||
Alexandra Staub, Associate Professor of Architecture The fourth-year architectural design studio considers the building in its urban context. Students begin with the analysis of an urban situation and then move to a large-scale urban “master plan” devel... |
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Technical Assistance | Curriculum-Based Project |
| Community and Neighborhood Design Studio - Lewistown, PA | ||
| 2011 | ||
Peter Aeschbacher, Associate Professor Department of Landscape Architecture and Architecture; Sean Burkholder, Assistant Professor Department of Landscape Architecture; Malcolm Woollen, Assistant Professor of Architecture In Spring of 2011, the Hamer Center sponsored a 3rd year Landscape Architecture Community Design Studio, where students work in teams develop site analysis, neighborhood plans, and public design proje... |
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Design/Build Implementation | Curriculum-Based Project |
| A New Genera(tion)tor for Design/Build Studios | ||
| 2011 | ||
James Kalsbeek, Associate Professor of Architecture Penn State’s Department of Architecture has a long history of design/build projects. Particularly in First Year Studio, we are committed to the active and applied learning that accompanies hands-on in... |
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Ecological Planning and Design | Curriculum-Based Project |
| Wissahickon Creek Watershed, Pennsylvania - Regional Planning Studio | ||
| 2011 | ||
Niel Korostoff, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture This regional planning studio focused on Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Creek watershed, which encompasses an area of 64 square miles and includes 15 municipalities in Montgomery County and the City of Ph... |
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Technical Assistance | Curriculum-Based Project |
| A Cleaner Greener Living Neighborhood for Baltimore’s Greenmount West Community | ||
| 2010 | ||
Lisa D. Iulo, Assistant Professsor of Architecture; Alexandra Staub, Associate Professor of Architecture 17 fourth-year architecture students participated in this Hamer Center for Community Design supported urban and community design studio. The questions framed by the studio project were ad¬dressed thro... |
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Community Planning Research | Faculty Research Project |
| A Form-Based Code Study for Revitalization Development in Historic PA Towns | ||
| 2010 | ||
Caru Bowns, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture This study explores use of form-based code zoning (FBC) as a facilitating mechanism for revitalization development in Pennsylvania historic towns. In many Pennsylvania towns, dilapidated buildings and... |
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Community Planning Research | Curriculum-Based Project |
| Ecological Infrastructure: the future of the mid-sized city | ||
| 2010 | ||
Sean Burkholder, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture This landscape architecture studio looked at ways of taking advantage of the ecological potentials of vacant land within Youngstown, Ohio, a shrinking mid-sized city, and to catalyze new uses and inve... |
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Technical Assistance | Curriculum-Based Project |
| Urban Arboretum: from vacancy to hybrid landscape | ||
| 2010 | ||
C. Timothy Baird, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture This vertical depth studio of fourth and fifth year landscape architecture students advanced ideas for reclaiming vacant land in Philadelphia through the creation of performative landscapes grounded u... |
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