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this project is about interrupting existing patterns of urban loneliness. the project explores three urban typologies of loneliness and potential interferences for each landscape. obstacles to unloneliness are investigated, such as urban form and social media. each is evaluated for its effect on loneliness and how this effect can be used to influence urbanites to feel less lonely. the focus is on ideas and experimentation. physical interference seeks to challenge preconceptions of what a city is, how one experiences the urban environment, and the role social media plays in our daily lives. the goal is to determine a spatial representation of the effect urbanism and social media have on loneliness and to use that to suggest a new typology of public space to promote unloneliness within phoenix, san francisco, and new york city. physical interference is a manifestation of ideas surrounding the modern urban experience.
ContributorsMedeiros, Camille Nicole (Author) / Maddock, Bryan (Thesis director) / Neveu, Marc (Thesis director) / Cloutier, Scott (Committee member) / School of Sustainability (Contributor) / The Design School (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05
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Architecture has the distinct quality of creating a legacy both physical as well as intangible; the qualities of which influence, and are influenced by, the great diversity of human culture. While material and structure yield to the passage of time, our collective understanding of the work will change just as significantly, yet less discernibly. How can we best retain the cultural content of architectural works against the passage of time, social change, environmental transformation, and disaster? The issue, while integral to architecture, has only been articulated thusly in relatively modern times, with the rise of the historic conservation movement in Europe. The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, a compelling vestige of culture, religion, and architectural form, was concretely compromised by the fire of the 15th of April 2019, which destroyed its spire and much of the roof. The cathedral’s planned restoration has been the subject of impassioned debate, controversy, and conjecture. In this thesis project, I will evaluate different approaches to retaining the cultural content present in architectural works and apply them specifically to the case of Notre-Dame de Paris. The project will culminate in a proposal for the restoration of the cathedral which is consistent with the principles determined to best preserve the legacy of the cathedral.
ContributorsParish, Evan (Author) / Neveu, Marc (Thesis director) / Hejduk, Renata (Committee member) / School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Contributor) / The Design School (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05
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This thesis explores the imperative of spatial agency in the context of affordable housing within a capitalist free-market economy and an age in which agency has been stripped from the architect and inhabitant alike. It defines the concepts of spatial agency of both the architect and inhabitant as well as the means to achieve this, namely prefabrication and adaptability as frameworks within the social sciences and architectural discourse. These definitions will then be further evaluated via their practical applications in several case studies dated between 1936 and the present. Ultimately, a flexible and low-impact solution will be implemented into the design of off site housing units for the Roden Crater housing project as well as one possible solution to affordable housing crises in an effort to utilize the once profit-driven means of prefabrication towards a more socialist end.
ContributorsChowdhury, Nasrynn (Author) / Neveu, Marc (Thesis director) / The Design School (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05