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Connective Ecology: Reclaiming The Postindustrial Urban Landscape, Thomas Smith
Connective Ecology: Reclaiming The Postindustrial Urban Landscape, Thomas Smith
Architecture Senior Theses
This thesis contends that by considering the urban landscape as an evolving interconnected network, much like an ecosystem, architecture can create flexible, accessible public space as part of a larger scale system which affects as well as responds to specific physical and social forces of the contemporary postindustrial city.
Mps Movement Public Space, Matthew R. Kanewske
Mps Movement Public Space, Matthew R. Kanewske
Architecture Senior Theses
"Portland provides an opportunity to examine the way this can relate to formal construction because cities' primary sites of public spaces will be integrated with the flows of movement, but this creates a dichotomy between the nature of site as a singular entity and the requirements of multiplicity required by a system. In this lies an opportunity for architectural invention of new forms of communicative public space."
Activating The Void: Programmed Pedestrian Infrastructure In Syracuse, Ny, Karissa Kizer
Activating The Void: Programmed Pedestrian Infrastructure In Syracuse, Ny, Karissa Kizer
Architecture Senior Theses
"To deal with the abundance of vehicles, much of the land immediately surrounding highways is occupied by parking facilities. These facilities, however, are neither spatially nor economically beneficial to the site, and are considered voids as they lack any meaningful use or activity. The scales of highways and pedestrians must be reconciled and the voids activated in order for cities to continue to survive with the ever-increasing presence of transportation infrastructure."