Browsing by Author "Grenader, Nonya"
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Item A Singular Vision: Cite Talks With Julius Shulman(Rice Design Alliance, 1999) Grenader, Nonya; Samuels, DannyItem Cite Reading(Rice Design Alliance, 1994) Samuels, Danny; Marling, Karal Ann; Culbertson, Margaret; Grenader, Nonya; Fox, StephenItem CiteReading(Rice Design Alliance, 1996) Grenader, Nonya; Fox, Stephen; Kilian, KarlItem Freeway as Landscape: Living on the edge affords a new view(Rice Design Alliance, 2005) Grenader, NonyaItem HindCite: Night Lights(Rice Design Alliance, 2006) Grenader, NonyaItem Homeowning: An exploration of the possession and personalization of the American Dream(2005) Engler, Elizabeth Koken; Grenader, NonyaThe benefits of homeownership are clear and undisputed. The accumulation of wealth or what is called a "forced savings plan," is often the most favorable result of homeownership, especially among low-income families that have no other asset building strategy. Since owner's payments on mortgage principals are retained as equity in a comparatively illiquid asset, wealth is accumulated to the extent that the constant-dollar value of the owner's equity exceeds any decline in the home's value. The single-family house is the only architectural type driven almost entirely by the commodity practices of a market economy; a condition which encourages standardization and thus stifles architectural innovation. Dire trends over the past forty years, however, demand new architectural solutions as homes have consistently decreased in quality, diversity and affordability. Current lending practices, land use strategies, and production methods have made homeownership unaffordable for households with two median in nearly all major US cities.Item Hope + Design(Rice Design Alliance, 2008) Grenader, Nonya; Scardino, BarrieItem Hotel San José(Rice Design Alliance, 2004) Grenader, Nonya; Fox, StephenItem The next step: Recreational trail interface(2009) Hays, Katherine; Grenader, NonyaThe Next Step re-choreographs the trail system, encouraging a multiplicity of experiences while treating the city as an exhibit. This project focuses on the network's deployment in Washington, D.C. This network, empowered by digital navigational devices and blogging/chatting capabilities, forces a new dialogue between the organizational systems of recreational spaces and cities. The recreational corridor and its context are defined by perceived gradients and contrasts - determined by sensory information [sound, smell, light, temperature]. The expanded palette encourages a more dynamic and responsive network. Intersections, or nodes, whose scale and permanence has a direct relationship to the sensory contrast associated with their paths [magnitude of choice] are designed using a catalogue of programmatic-sensory specific elements that relate to the context of the paths and the definition of the node. These elements, deployed, enhance and amplify the site of the node to create a matrix of sensory atmospheres.Item The parking garage apartment park, a proposal for accommodating the increasing density of Los Angeles(2008) Pang, Justus; Grenader, NonyaLos Angeles is landlocked but its population continues to grow steadily. These conflicting geographic and demographic pressures have created a unique low-rise, high-density suburbanism; a car-centric region with a major housing shortage and an acute lack of public parks. Like Downtown mega-projects and illegal garage apartments, this project houses new population growth by intensifying land currently dedicated to car storage. However, this thesis proposes a distributed model for densification that creates both new housing and new parks throughout the Los Angeles region. Focusing on the suburban city of Alhambra, this project is sited on a large supermarket parking lot. It replaces surface parking with a new park and adds eighty housing units while still accommodating the high automobile density lifestyle currently found in Southern California.Item Rooms with a View(Rice Design Alliance, 1999) Grenader, Nonya; Fox, StephenItem The Small House(Rice Design Alliance, 2002) Grenader, NonyaItem West Side Story(Rice Design Alliance, 1996) Grenader, NonyaItem Who Owns the Land? Domestic Model Claiming the Complexity of the Spatial Ownership Pattern(2020-04-20) Luo, Qi; Grenader, Nonya; Finley, DawnLand, as a natural resource, a crucial role in city life and is seldom questioned on the ownership by architects, users and developers. In the development of urban housing, shifting the land control to privatization causes the destruction of housing, which is called capitalist accumulation. As a result, the displacement of unprofitable housing and residents is happening. However, if the land is argued as the natural resource, the common goods, the chain of “land control, the production of space and the social order” should be seen as the multipartite network between who owns the land and who use the land. To understanding the land as social and political, the property issue addresses the way we view the urban land from the points of rules, regulations and complex network of ownership. From the other end, the, the ownership also evoke the discussion of domestic sphere, like the discussion of the feminist theory and the social convention. So, the topic is focused on the domesticity claiming the social ownership pattern in urban condition. To spatialize the interplay of social and political forces of ownership, the issues address the land division, property rules and private vs. public realms.