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A Meeting House In Boston: A Vehicle For Reconnection, Roseanne Hennessey
A Meeting House In Boston: A Vehicle For Reconnection, Roseanne Hennessey
Architecture Thesis Prep
"The thesis project will explore the reconnection of the urban core to the periphery. It will deal fundamentally with the relationship of center to edge and the sue of architecture as connective tissue. The vehicle for this exploration if a meeting house in Boston. This vehicle presents an opportunity to investigate the topic of reconnection as an urban/site proposition as well as a use/program proposition."
Thesis Preparatory Booklet - Suburban Civic Center, Charles Angelakis
Thesis Preparatory Booklet - Suburban Civic Center, Charles Angelakis
Architecture Thesis Prep
'My intention is to investigate the reestablishment of the civic center within a typical suburban town of a major metropolitan city. This new 'town square" should be the seat of local law and government, the place of the town's library, site of public services, along with some commercial and residential functions. My goal is to take a site occupied by an architectural ruin which sits as a composition of objects in a field, and by the manipulation of the landscape, along with the introduction of a new piece of architecture, create an ordered composition which begins to become the towns …