Ephemeral Urbanism: Exploring Impermanence in a Static Environment

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Lawrence Salviejo

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Fall 2006

Keywords

monumentality, impermanence, permanence, spontaneity, architecture and impermanence, mobile architecture, temporality, event, interaction

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"In a city where hyper-density and permanence are established as the norm, its inhabitants are limited in their opportunity to perform acts of spontaneity. Architecture of monumentality within our cities has taken away form our outspoken temperament due to their static and unchanging nature. These buildings contain the desires and pre-occupations of their time and cannot adapt to changing social dynamics. To counter this rooted and presiding environment, I am proposing the introduction of mobile interventions to the urban environment in order to create opportunities for the city's inhabitants to engage in spontaneous discourse."

Additional Information

Advisors: Phu Duong / Lawrence Davis

Recommended Citation

Salviejo, Lawrence, "Ephemeral Urbanism: Exploring Impermanence in a Static Environment" (2006). Architecture Thesis Prep. 142.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/142

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.