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.

Additional Information

Advisors: Art McDonald / Brendan Moran

Source

Student Submission

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