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Creating Community: Mixed Use Development In New Bedford, Ma, Matthew J.B. Cate
Creating Community: Mixed Use Development In New Bedford, Ma, Matthew J.B. Cate
Architecture Theses
In creating a new type of community for New Bedford, MA, there was an awareness of both the existing community, context, and people, while realizing a need for change. The design uses the concept of adapting the existing density into two modes. First, merging the existing residential fabric and merging it with a public program including both commercial and retail development. Second, focusing that new typology into a smaller more refi ned space, while creating new public areas for communal enjoyment and development. Creating such an idea of living takes the existing unused exterior spaces allotted to the typical housing …
Adaptive Housing: Transformation And Growth In The Urban Environment, Kevin Mowatt
Adaptive Housing: Transformation And Growth In The Urban Environment, Kevin Mowatt
Architecture Theses
The proposal for an adaptive housing project and its chosen location arose from two obstacles that all modern cities and the world as a whole, face. The urban environment is revered for its cultural amalgam of people and wide range of demographics; however with this density and diversity comes a shortage of one type or another of commodious housing. Additionally and consequentially, the city must expand and build new buildings, leaving older, unsuitable building vacant. An adaptive architecture would allow families to grow and demographics to shift within the established community, all the while reinvigorating that second obstacle the city …