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Item Analysis of cotton gin buildings in the South Plains region(Texas Tech University, 1999-08) Hainze, Michelle S. G. C.Cotton gin structures are tha dominant, rural architectural building form in tha South Plains region. Historic research methods were employed to document and analyze of these structures before they disappear. Defining features and elements that enable recognition of types and styles of these buildings have been documented in a "Visual Vocabulary."Item Analysis of cotton gin buildings in the south plains region(1999-08) Hainze, Michelle S. G. C.Cotton gin structures are the dominant, rural architectural building form in the South Plains region. Historic research methods were employed to document and analyze of these structures before they disappear. Defining features and elements that enable recognition of types and styles of these buildings have been documented in a "Visual Vocabulary."Item Analysis of cotton gin buildings in the South Plains region(Texas Tech University, 1999-08) Hainze, Michelle S. G. C.Cotton gin structures are the dominant, rural architectural building form in the South Plains region. Historic research methods were employed to document and analyze of these structures before they disappear. Defining features and elements that enable recognition of types and styles of these buildings have been documented in a ''Visual Vocabulary."Item Battle Hall : restoring natural ventilation in the Reading Room(2011-05) Yen, Daniel Ka Kei; Holleran, Michael; Garrison, Michael; O'Connell, TereBattle Hall, located at the heart of the University of Texas at Austin’s campus since 1911, has been serving the University for a century. It was designed for cooling with natural ventilation prior to being fully air conditioned in the mid-1960s. The mechanical system currently installed in Battle Hall is over 40 years old. While it provides reasonable environment for the collections, it struggles to achieve stable conditions for various zones in the building. The purpose of this study is to consider isolating the Reading Room as an individual zone and explore the possibility of restoring natural ventilation as it was originally designed. There are various benefits in restoring natural ventilation to the hundred-year old Reading Room, including psychological benefits, indoor air quality, and energy savings. However, various concerns, such as environmental conditions, air pollutants, acoustic, and potential light damages, also exist. This study focuses on investigating the possibility of restoring natural ventilation by examining existing conditions, collection care requirements for library collections and historic architectural elements. Two data-loggers were placed in the Reading Room to record temperature and relative humidity readings for approximately five months. Through analysis of these readings of existing collection care settings and existing architectural settings, potential solutions and alternatives were considered and examined. These included non-action, hybrid natural ventilation, Johnson Controls Personal Environmental System, and HVAC shut-off. This study is the first of its kind for Battle Hall. As a Historic Structures Report of Battle Hall is commissioned by the University, this study provides a better understanding of potential solutions and alternatives to restore natural ventilation to Battle Hall. This may also serve as a platform to stimulate ideas and research on natural ventilation restoration to other buildings in the University.Item Colorado Supply Company store number 31, Tercio, Colorado: a historical perspective(Texas Tech University, 2002-05) Cooper, Tammy G.Historic buildings stand as visual reminders of the past. They are the containers of history and memories, and to preserve them is to preserve history. The Colorado Supply Company Store at Tercio, Colorado is the only remaining structure of a once vital coal mining community. Its physical presence is largely unchanged from the day it first opened, but it has accumulated a century of heritage. The purpose of this paper is to bring to light the factors that led to the building of the Company Store at Tercio, to study its physical properties, and to bring the memory of the place to life in the mind of the reader in a way that is honest and respectful of the coal miners and their families. This paper will show that this is a structure that is historically significant and worthy of preservation. The Colorado Supply Company Store at Tercio is a bold reminder of the past, and needs to be preserved for the future.Item Designing within an historic context(Texas Tech University, 1996-08) Koch, Lori A.The positions of historic preservation range from allowing the building to live out its natural course to decay, to restoring or adding to the building using current and appropriate materials and construction methods.* This project is an adaptive use and an addition to the Union block, 117 North 4th Street, in C^iincy, Illinois. The original building technology, history, and design will be studied to evaluate decisions for the new that relate to the primary pattern and proportions of the existing buildings. This will allow for layering architectural styles, exposing the past and creating the next layer of technology and history. This thesis will examine preservation strategies; case studies of projects by Carlo Scarpa, Aurelio Cialfetti, and others; and the context of the site in the Historic Washington Park area of Quincy to identify a set of principles to guide the design. The project will retain the historic commercial uses of the square (commercial along the first floor with residential, storage, or office space above) and include an addition which will direct new life into the area. The scope of the design project will include an existing 7125 square feet, three story building with an unfinished basement, and an equal addition to the south. The total project will consist of a cafe, newsstand, and information area on the ground floors and sbc residential units on the floors above.Item Development of criteria for the accessibility of people with disabilities to selected historic county courthouses in Texas(Texas Tech University, 1995-05) Reeves, Roderick JosephThis thesis will examine accessibility of historic buildings for all populations. Legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), relating to the integration of the disabled population will be examined to determine how accessibility of historic structures is handled. This thesis will then develop practical measures that can be used by local communities to preserve a building while allowing it to be enjoyed by all. A community's population, including those with disabilities, has its own unique heritage; historic buildings help define this heritage. Neither a community's disabled population or its history through architecture should be neglected or overlooked. Yet, without access to a majority of these facilities, people with disabilities often miss out on the history of their community. Consequently, these buildings lose some of their value. As local residents become more aware of preserving particular sites, they need to also remember the overriding purpose of preservation. We use historic buildings as learning tools for all populations, including those with disabilities. In the past, many physical barriers within a building have limited the disabled population's ability to use these structures. This eventually caused educational and psychological barriers as well (Howard, Brehm, & Nagi, 1980). A community has an obUgation not only to remember its past, but also to remember all who should be able to view it. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to collect information from local advocacy groups for the disabled and preservation leagues in Lubbock and Denton, Texas for the development of criteria that will supplement existing ADA codes. Selected county courthouses in Texas will be used as examples of how the criteria can be applied.Item Development of criteria for the accessibility of people with disabilities to selected historic county courthouses in Texas(Texas Tech University, 1995-05) Reeves, Roderick JosephThis thesis will examine accessibility of historic buildings for all populations. Legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), relating to the integration of the disabled population will be examined to determine how accessibility of historic structures is handled. This thesis will then develop practical measures that can be used by local communities to preserve a building while allowing it to be enjoyed by all. A community's population, including those with disabilities, has its own unique heritage; historic buildings help define this heritage. Neither a community's disabled population or its history through architecture should be neglected or overlooked. Yet, without access to a majority of these facilities, people with disabilities often miss out on the history of their community. Consequently, these buildings lose some of their value. As local residents become more aware of preserving particular sites, they need to also remember the overriding purpose of preservation. We use historic buildings as learning tools for all populations, including those with disabilities. In the past, many physical barriers within a building have limited the disabled population's ability to use these structures. This eventually caused educational and psychological barriers as well (Howard, Brehm, & Nagi, 1980). A community has an obligation not only to remember its past, but also to remember all who should be able to view it. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to collect information from local advocacy groups for the disabled and preservation leagues in Lubbock and Denton, Texas for the development of criteria that will supplement existing ADA codes. Selected county courthouses in Texas will be used as examples of how the criteria can be applied.Item Development of criteria for the accessibility of people with disabilities to selected historic county courthouses in Texas(1995-05)This thesis will examine accessibility of historic buildings for all populations. Legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), relating to the integration of the disabled population will be examined to determine how accessibility of historic structures is handled. This thesis will then develop practical measures that can be used by local communities to preserve a building while allowing it to be enjoyed by all.Item Preservation under the crescent and star : using new sources for examining the historic development of the Balat District in Istanbul and its meanings for historic preservation(2004-12) Uluengin, Mehmet Bengü, 1974-; Chusid, Jeffrey M.The purpose of this dissertation is to identify various sources hitherto neglected by the field of historic preservation in Turkey, and to seek possible ways in which they can be incorporation into this field. As demonstrated by the case study chosen for this dissertation--the Balat District in Istanbul--the use of these sources fosters a richness of perception which today is lacking in historic preservation in Turkey. The dissertation begins with the hypothesis that historic preservation in Turkey was used to legitimize the constructed reality of the new Turkish Republic. Since the Republic represented everything the Ottoman Empire was not, it had to be purged of its Ottoman inheritance, including the Empire's institutions and its diverse, non-Muslim population. Istanbul's urban fabric, however, bore unmistakable marks of both. While the eradication of these marks was never a declared policy, the net effect of the Republic's actions was essentially to have that result. A heightened awareness of the neglected sources mentioned above may help obviate the ways in which history has been rewritten, and may also help us develop preservation policies which provide a richer, more complex and multi-ethnic reading of Balat's--and ultimately Istanbul's--past. In the case of Balat, in contrast to the relatively few sources used by preservation authorities (mainly old photographs and historic maps) stand a vast array of sources that typically go unnoticed. Among these are Byzantine records, Ottoman governmental records, Islamic court records, rabbinical records, church records, etc. In practice, a neighborhood preservation project would ideally use most of these sources. To make the current study manageable, however, I will focus specifically on Islamic court records. During my fieldwork in Istanbul, I scanned roughly 4,300 court records (covering the period from 1800 to 1839) to identify cases pertinent to the built environment. The 1198 cases that I identified provide a wealth of information related to building types, ownership patterns, commercial activity, demographics, mobility, etc.--information which helps us reconstruct the lifestyle of Balat's residents, and ultimately aids in the rendering of a multi-faceted narrative of the District's urban history.Item The digital reflection: Implications of three-dimensional laser scanning technology on historic architectural documentation(2001-08)How can laser scanning technology be used to document a historical structure in such a way that the duration of the process is reduced and made less labor intensive, with the quality of documentation being equal to, or better than that required by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), and that archival storage methods and accessibility to the public are enhanced? 3D Laser Scanning is a relatively new technique whereby pulses of light from a fixed source measure the exact co-ordinate position of points on a structure or object. This group or "cloud of points" accurately represents the object in three-dimensional virtual space. The application of 3D laser scanning technology to historic documentation in Texas Tech University was first examined in the measured drawing process of the JA Ranch, in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas. In this study, I described what eventuated and then analyzed a case study of this process with respect to time, labor, quality and image accessibility. This study had two steps. The first was to identify problems with the process that was followed, and the second was to suggest possible solutions in achieving an efficient procedure. The outcome of the case study analysis resulted in the delineation of an optimal course, which is replicable for a structure of comparable complexity.Item The digital reflection: implications of three-dimensional laser scanning technology on historic architecture documentation(Texas Tech University, 2001-08) Bagchi, Sumantra; Hill, Glenn E.; Bilello, Joseph; White, John P.How can laser scanning technology be used to document a historical structure in such a way that the duration of the process is reduced and made less labor intensive, with the quality of documentation being equal to, or better than that required by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), and that archival storage methods and accessibility to the public are enhanced? 3D Laser Scanning is a relatively new technique whereby pulses of light from a fixed source measure the exact co-ordinate position of points on a structure or object. This group or "cloud of points" accurately represents the object in three-dimensional virtual space. The application of 3D laser scanning technology to historic documentation in Texas Tech University was first examined in the measured drawing process of the JA Ranch, in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas. In this study, I described what eventuated and then analyzed a case study of this process with respect to time, labor, quality and image accessibility. This study had two steps. The first was to identify problems with the process that was followed, and the second was to suggest possible solutions in achieving an efficient procedure. The outcome of the case study analysis resulted in the delineation of an optimal course, which is replicable for a structure of comparable complexity.