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Activated Infrastructure, Joanna T. Myers
Activated Infrastructure, Joanna T. Myers
Architecture Thesis Prep
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[Re]-Establishing Connection: Integrating People Through Movement And Culture In Nyc, Justin Leung
[Re]-Establishing Connection: Integrating People Through Movement And Culture In Nyc, Justin Leung
Architecture Thesis Prep
"This thesis proposes to test and re-establish how architecture can make connections between people. Through freedom of movement, transportation creates many opportunities for the congregation of people and social interaction. This thesis aims to create spaces for mixing and awareness through movement, and program."
Constructing A Living Surface: City Hall As Connective Tissue, Benjamin Grace
Constructing A Living Surface: City Hall As Connective Tissue, Benjamin Grace
Architecture Thesis Prep
"Infrastructural space offers a model for architecture which is not closed and self-contained, but expansive, continuous, and referential beyond itself. A healthy urban landscape can be produced by buildings that serve to construct sites which expand into the city, giving expression to the role of the urban surface."
Identity Factory: The Mass Production Of The Masses, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Peter W. Bartash
Identity Factory: The Mass Production Of The Masses, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Peter W. Bartash
Architecture Theses
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is a location whose identity is its layered manufacturing history. Within the infrastructural system of corridors that organizes its urban fabric exists a tectonic language of an architecture whose purpose is in providing opportunities for making. Operating within one of these corridors, the Identity Factory allows that an individual become aware of activity shaping his or her own identity, the relationship of that identity to a greater context, and the potential to define oneself engaged in a cultural landscape through the process of manufacturing