The Case Study of William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri, USA, was done in the Winter/Spring of 1996 by first year students in the Environmental Design Stu dies Program at Kansas State University. William Chrisman High School is one of 20,059 secondary schools in the United States and one of 587 secondary schools in the state of Missouri. The Environmental Design Studies Program is an introduction to the design fields of architecture, interior architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture. To learn more about the Environmental Design Studies Program, follow this link... At Kansas State University, John Selfridge, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, instructed and coordinated this project in his first-year studios. Five freshman students examined building/energy performance and user response issues at William Chrisman High School. The study can be accessed by clicking the "study building" on the right or by following this link... To learn about the outside sources that aided in our study, chiefly the Independence Missouri Public School District, click the "Acknowledgments" on the right or follow this link... This study was done in conjunction with the Vital Signs Project. Vital Signs is an active program underway at numerous schools of architecture in Canada and in the United States for student-centered investigations of the physical and energy performance of existing buildings and of the buildings' influences on users. It has developed in concert with the Society of Building Science Educators and, as a funded project, is adm inistered through the Center for Environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley. For more on the Vital Signs Project, following this link...
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Study Building
William Chrisman High School located in Independence, Missouri, USA is the building that was studied. |
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Acknowledgments
These are the people who aided in our study, without their help this project would not have been possible. |
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Abstract
A concise version of our case study, results, and information, optimized for text only browsers, contains no graphic images. |
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Comments or Questions
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Team Members
These are the students from Kansas State University who took part in this study. |
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This is the College of Architecture, Planning & Design's home page. |
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