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Reconsidering The Community Center - Restorative Strategies Within Existing Frameworks, John Gilbert Iii
Reconsidering The Community Center - Restorative Strategies Within Existing Frameworks, John Gilbert Iii
Masters Theses
The overarching goal of this investigation is to determine how an existing building of spatial and programmatic rigidity can serve as a framework for designing a more integrated center for personal and community development. This project is an exploration of what a building can evolve into after its "shelf-life" has expired, with the aid of a reconsidered architectural vision. Formulated within criteria individual to its context, it is intended to be an investigation of possibility and the testing of a nascent potential, not an attempt to serve as a prescriptive, panacea solution. It is an examination of a creative vision …