Document Type
Thesis, Senior
Degree
M.ARCH I
Date
Spring 2013
Keywords
Architecture, Residential Square, Housing, Urban Fabric, American Dream
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture
Description/Abstract
The transposition of the residential square will be part of a large-scale strategic plan for the re-development of low-rise low-density neighborhoods on the fringe of the central business district in the post-industrial city. A community garden will be defined by a public housing project. Thus, the neighborhood’s identity will be presented through the physical landscape, building volumes and façade. The project will become part of the system of communal spaces within the city. American individualism will express the civic realm, while creating a secure and connected environment. The new housing block provides a proto-type for an urban morphology that decreases anonymity within a neighborhood, while providing a spectrum of space types. It will also provide an identity that is closely linked with that of the district’s culture, leading to a sense of pride and ownership provided by clear entry sequences and points of access, and enforced through the facade.
Recommended Citation
Whittington, Elizabeth, "Residential Square in the 21st Century: Applying a typology to create a new urban morphology" (2013). Architecture Senior Theses. 183.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/183
Source
Student Submission
Creative Commons License
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Additional Information
Advisors: Art McDonald / Brendan Moran