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Vorhizomeid: Nodes Of Community Services Connecting Albany, Ny, Andrew Watkins
Vorhizomeid: Nodes Of Community Services Connecting Albany, Ny, Andrew Watkins
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The contention is to reposition terrain vague into the urban fabric recreating a continuum of the urban system while attempting to detract neither from the scale of the infrastructural system, nor that of the human body. Terrain vague muse be approached in a different manner than that of the traditional urban city. Establishing community through terrain vague should be done by measure of the forces, flows, and rhythms of space."
Traces Of Time: Urban Palimpsest And Transformations, Tomas B. Fernandez
Traces Of Time: Urban Palimpsest And Transformations, Tomas B. Fernandez
Architecture Thesis Prep
"I contend that the city is a deeply scored palimpsest that through specific natural, social, and cultural changes reveals its traces of permanence and temporality; therefore, to create in the urban realm is to respond to these vestiges of time through decoding and transformation, as if one was gently manipulating the genome of the city."
Urban Agents, New Events: A Transformation Of The Postindustrial Landscape, Kevin Toukoumidis
Urban Agents, New Events: A Transformation Of The Postindustrial Landscape, Kevin Toukoumidis
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Railway yards, abandoned industrial processing plants, decommissioned factories and polluted river ways are the leftovers from the industrial age. With the deindustrialization of society, a new prevailing urban condition has resulted: a marginalized landscape of residual spaces and urban voids, often with real or perceived contamination.... The potential for reclaiming these marginalized landscapes becomes a catalyst for the design of new modes of occupation and human activity."