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Thickening: A 21st Century Approach For Resilience In Infrastructure, Marco Antonio Ravini
Thickening: A 21st Century Approach For Resilience In Infrastructure, Marco Antonio Ravini
Architecture Thesis Prep
Infrastructure should be designed for higher RESILIENCE, not permanence. Rather than over-engineer to resist the inevitable failure of individual components, the next generation of public infrastructure needs to exceed its technical specifications and seek opportunistic hybridity between systems. In doing so, new possibilities for multi-layered use/outputs emerge which contribute to a more productive and resilient infrastructural lifespan.
59th Street Bridge Museum And Market, Marciano Martin
59th Street Bridge Museum And Market, Marciano Martin
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
This thesis is to serve as an investigation and response into the architectural issue of scale juxtaposition. In this case the condition which occurs is the result of a modern feat of engineering at one scale, disrupting and imposing itself onto an urban and historical context which is at a more intimate scale. Consequently, there is a loss of identity or spatial relationships in the urban context, which may have existed prior to this modern intervention. It is my goal to take advantage and develop a response to these disparate scales and their images. It is also the opportunity for …