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Reconnect The Urban Surface --- By Making Landscape And Infrastructure, Ming Gao
Reconnect The Urban Surface --- By Making Landscape And Infrastructure, Ming Gao
Architecture Senior Theses
Today in the post industrial city, the connection between different places relies mostly on transportation by way of automobiles, public buses, and subway. By walking or biking, people are able to talk with nature directly. However, by modern transportation, people are confined in a close machinery space which prevents them from experiencing nature directly. They are separated from nature by consciously choosing to use modern transportation during their daily lives, and they get less and less direct access to nature. Nowadays, nature experienced space within walking distance int he city is limited to the tiny front yard garden, where landscape …
Bridge_Works, Chris Driscoll
The Architecture Of Resistance: Pivoting The Informal Economy, Michael Langone
The Architecture Of Resistance: Pivoting The Informal Economy, Michael Langone
Architecture Senior Theses
"In the struggle for growth, the architecture of informal commerce is complicit in the perpetuation of an impermanent and uncertain existence that favors acquiescence over resistance. More is required of it.
An architectural intervention can provide pivot points upon which to direct the flow of unregulated commerce and subvert state-sponsored efforts to peripheralize it."
Conspicuous Space: Parking Lot Suburbanism, Ian Nicholson
Conspicuous Space: Parking Lot Suburbanism, Ian Nicholson
Architecture Senior Theses
"Locating neighborhoods of housing in currently underutilized surface parking lots which serve successful commercial shopping centers and big box stores can synergistically improve the American suburb by allowing opportunities to maintain the suburban idea (rugged individualism, privacy, and mobility) while mitigating its problems (automobiles dependence, distance, and isolation)."