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Urban Archtifice: Regenerating Residential Facades Through Acupuncture, Ran Mei
Urban Archtifice: Regenerating Residential Facades Through Acupuncture, Ran Mei
Architecture Thesis Prep
To legitimize and make use of weirdness in the Chinese cultural fascination of symbolism and objectified architecture, I decide to put it in the most function-oriented program in the city _ collective housing, or more specifically, the transformation and regeneration of existing housing types in Chinese megacities. To inject iconicity into the most banal and repetitive structures of Chinese cities, the residential high-rises, I aim to create a human layer that parasites the faceless facades of housing blocks; to take advantage of the novelty value of collectively generated iconicity to legitimize the personal appropriation of “public” space; to bring back …
For The Love Of Concrete: Embracing The Ugly Duckling, Not The Decorated Shed, Steven Carlson
For The Love Of Concrete: Embracing The Ugly Duckling, Not The Decorated Shed, Steven Carlson
Architecture Senior Theses
For the Love of Concrete is at its heart an homage to concrete, advocating beauty, versatility and durability; celebrating concrete's ability to create spatial experiences that are compelling, varied, acoustically attuned and thermally tempered. In the face of increasing superficiality, in architecture and the world at large, this thesis celebrates the authenticity and substantiality of concrete.
Layered Scamming: Exposing How The Desires Reflect In The Architecture Design, Alejandra Charrabe
Layered Scamming: Exposing How The Desires Reflect In The Architecture Design, Alejandra Charrabe
Architecture Senior Theses
Based on the essay “Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Forms” by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour the terms “decorated shed” and “duck” take on a different meaning when speaking of architecture. These terms specifically described a relationship between the program and the façade of a building. By taking such terms an applying them to an analysis of brothel facades, an interesting relationship can be created between the marketing strategy desired for such brothel and the way in which the façade represents such strategy. I will be analyzing the relationship between public/private, commercial/cultural, container/content …