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(Im)Permanent Landform Built: The Edge Between "Natural" And Man-Made, Katharina Hoerath
(Im)Permanent Landform Built: The Edge Between "Natural" And Man-Made, Katharina Hoerath
Architecture Senior Theses
"I believe that the paramount interconnectedness between architecture and site should become apparent when examining the theoretical constructions, physical, metaphysical, and sensual dimensions. Having chosen the sites at two different threshold of erosion (Matterhorn and Holderness Coast), I claim that the gray zone between “natural” and man made needs to be addressed in an intriguing way to create an aesthetic form responding to landform change over time. This thesis offers an opportunity to contextualize past events and to provoke and imagine something new. Architecture as the permanent, solid element determines the edge towards the solidifying landform. Moreover, this topic provides …
Re-Thinking The Green Belt: Sustainability And Development In Growing Cities, Maria Saavedra
Re-Thinking The Green Belt: Sustainability And Development In Growing Cities, Maria Saavedra
Architecture Senior Theses
One of the major goals of this research is to study the relationship between nature and technology as urban generators. I agree with Lisa Tilder and Beth Bostein, who state that instead of using architectural technology to return nature to some impossible, pre-human pristine state, we should consider fully employing the power of architecture to produce new forms of nature. Instead of thinking about the River’s edge as a natural and physical barrier between the water and the city, we should consider it as an opportunity to challenge the image of nature, exploring how it limits or furthers our social …
Process And Making Of Landscape, Joseph Wood
Process And Making Of Landscape, Joseph Wood
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis seeks to focus its study on geological processes in nature as a tool to both make and read the landscape as if it were a novel; to uncover its myths and to allow the viewer to interpret its past. As Brad Cloepfil of the architecture practice Allied Works has stated, "A landscape that took some ten million years to form, millions of years before the appearance of man, is thereby nudged toward that most unique of human capacities; language." I claim that by extending the definition of making, earth driven processes can be used as tools to study, …