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Obsolete Architecture: Revitalization Along A Spectrum Of Utility, Garrett Goodridge
Obsolete Architecture: Revitalization Along A Spectrum Of Utility, Garrett Goodridge
Architecture Thesis Prep
I am interested in understanding the potential contemporary significance of currently obsolete infrastructures in architecture. I am also claiming that architecture exists along a spectrum of utility. It is insinuated that obsolete architecture is subjugated to one side of the spectrum (uselessness), however, it is not yet (completely) dead. It instead exists in a middle ground between useless and useful. I am contending to exploit the extremes, and in doing so, drawing attention to the ambiguity of the obsolete architecture at hand in effort to generate modern functionality.
2041: A Communal Life, Nathaniel Thomas Danciger
2041: A Communal Life, Nathaniel Thomas Danciger
Honors Capstone Projects - All
I posit that an architecture of collective cultural spaces, shared human and animal habitat, and affordable local building techniques, implemented through the design of a co-housing community, would promote a collaborative and communal way of life in harmony with the natural landscape and offer a model for the future development of former agricultural and suburban sites in a manner preferable to the current practices of the American suburb. This project is concerned with redefining the way that people in the United States will occupy rural landscapes in the future. The site for this new co-housing model is a field outside …