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Entangling Manila’S Seams, Patrick De Garcia
Entangling Manila’S Seams, Patrick De Garcia
Architecture Thesis Prep
Manila, Philippines is a city fragmented into slums and upper-class enclaves. The adjacency of their separated development contributes to intensifying class-relations; each side is fearful of the other. Symbolic manifestations of the border are made apparent due to economic inaccessibility, emphasizing social stratification. This project is interested in blurring the boundaries maintaining social segregation to enhance public spaces’ quality, specifically through redeveloping the shopping mall.
Dissolving Reality: An Endless Domestic Landscape, Hanzhang Lai, Phang Lim
Dissolving Reality: An Endless Domestic Landscape, Hanzhang Lai, Phang Lim
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis explores how the exponential growth in communication technology is changing the way we interact with the tangible and intangible spaces. The invasion of the public into the private, the collective into the domestic, the work into the leisure, and the ability to be constantly connected wirelessly have caused a dissolution of the physical domestic space. The domestic space has lost its value of privacy and intimacy and the boundary between the binaries will be no more. The gap between “the control” and “controlled” has widened and productive workers will be oppressed to be even more productive under the …
Privacy Reconfigured: Examining Public Interactions Within Domestic Space, Vanessa Poe
Privacy Reconfigured: Examining Public Interactions Within Domestic Space, Vanessa Poe
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis reconfigures private domestic spaces by combining modes of privacy in order to accommodate the needs of the townhouse, resulting in a new series of private reveals through socialization.