Case Studies|Selfridge

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O. John Selfridge|KSU College of Architecture, Planning, & Design

Case Studies

These are student-centered case studies of specific buildings and environments. They report on the performance of a study building/built environment, such as energy use, and/or user responses, and/or health & safety concerns, etc. The case studies here are formal requirements of classes taught by John Selfridge and are thus are purely that--academic exercises, not professional evaluations/reports (see DISCLAIMER at the end of this page). The Environmental Design Studio is the spring-term studio for first-year undergraduates who will enroll in following years in professional programs in architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, or interior design. Building-Related Health & Safety is an upper-level/graduate course both for students in professional programs in environmental design and for students in other disciplines across the campus.

These case studies use as a model the Vital Signs Project developed by the Society of Building Science Educators and promoted/administered through the Center for Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. Equipment, travel, and support for some of these case studies came, in part, by generous funding from the Energy Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and Pacific Gas & Electric via the Vital Signs Project at UC, Berkeley.

	Environmental Design Studio:
	William Chrisman High School Independence, Missouri This high school has evolved over many years to the facility first studied in Spring, 1996. The Allen-Lambe House Wichita, Kansas This, the "last of the Prairie Houses," was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Henry J. Allen and his wife, Elsie J. Nuzman Allen, and occupied in 1918. The Corbin Education Center Wichita, Kansas This is the built-twin of a pair of late-in-his-career Frank Lloyd Wright buildings for the campus of Wichita State University. The other twin remains unbuilt. The Frank Carlson Federal Building Topeka, Kansas Energy profiles and extensive user responses are featured in this report of a federal office building designed and occupied in the energy-crisis 1970's. The U.S. Cavalry Museum Fort Riley, Kansas With origins as the Post Hospital in 1855, this building and its additions has now evolved into a historical museum. This report is anticipated to be the first of a series of studies of museums in the region.

	Building-Related Health & Safety:

Your comments are invited for each and all of the case studies.

DISCLAIMER

These case studies are presented as work in accordance with formal requirements for classes in the College of Architecture, Planning, & Design, namely for O. John Selfridge's sections of DSFN 202: Environmental Design Studio 2, for Building-Related Health & Safety, and for other courses as appropriate. The purpose of these reports is an academic exercise and not intended to offer professional judgement. As such, neither the authors, the instructor, the college, nor Kansas State University assumes responsibility if the contents of these reports are used for any other purpose.

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