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The Industrial Park: A Landscape-Based Vision For The Turners Falls Canal District, Josiah Simpson
The Industrial Park: A Landscape-Based Vision For The Turners Falls Canal District, Josiah Simpson
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Studio and Student Research and Creative Activity
This design study examines the history and economic context that defines Turners Falls as a de-industrialized mill town. It reviews the social, economic, locational, physical, and historical obstacles the town has faced redeveloping the mill buildings within its Canal District and proposes a landscape-based approach for addressing redevelopment. Landscape redevelopment is offered as an alternative to traditional redevelopment of buildings for non-affluent mill towns, like Turners Falls, because the costs associated with landscape upgrades are much lower and can provide multifunctional and multi-purpose spaces for many types of people. Additionally, it is a pathway for inviting community involvement that allows …
Material Density: A Radical Approach To Adaptive Reuse, Madeline Laberge
Material Density: A Radical Approach To Adaptive Reuse, Madeline Laberge
Architecture Senior Theses
Through disassembly and reconfiguration, this thesis proposes to create new relationships between existing materials and their typical forms, using a material-focused densification specific to the site. This radical approach to adaptive reuse contrasts the current over-designed and over-theorized architectural projects, aiming to use a pragmatic approach in how materials on historical sites can be reclaimed. Situated on a site with forgotten architecture, the building’s “ruins provide the incentive for restoration” where one can re-immerse themselves with the grand, sublime space. But sites like these are typically demolished for new construction due to costly rehabilitation, with new designs ignoring or not …
The Industrial Park: A Landscape-Based Vision For The Turners Falls Canal District, Josiah Simpson
The Industrial Park: A Landscape-Based Vision For The Turners Falls Canal District, Josiah Simpson
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
This design study examines the history and economic context that defines Turners Falls as a de-industrialized mill town. It reviews the social, economic, locational, physical, and historical obstacles the town has faced redeveloping the mill buildings within its Canal District and proposes a landscape-based approach for addressing redevelopment. Landscape redevelopment is offered as an alternative to traditional redevelopment of buildings for non-affluent mill towns, like Turners Falls, because the costs associated with landscape upgrades are much lower and can provide multifunctional and multi-purpose spaces for many types of people. Additionally, it is a pathway for inviting community involvement that allows …