Title

Dead Space

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2013

Keywords

Deadspace, death, space, architecture, crisis, deviance

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

Deadspace might seem like it would refer to a sequestered location, but it is more of an ephemeral idea. The universality of death as a condition of life means that deadspace exists across all cultures and even transcends human creation. Deadspaces can be for no one and for everyone, or they can be open only to particular constituencies. A cemetery may be open to everyone, or it may be accessible only to those who practice a certain faith; it may even be a place so feared that no one is to be there except for the dead. A nuclear contamination site, with land so dead it causes death, is closed to all. An extinct volcano, on the other hand, is a deadspace which has lost its volatility, and becomes a space again possible to use.

Additional Information

Advisors: Brendan Moran / Lori Brown

Source

student submission

Creative Commons License

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

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