Author(s)/Creator(s)

Jesse Ganes

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2014

Keywords

Systems, Green Architecture, Ganes

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

By designing a series of house-like pavilions that leak (fluids and information) in specific ways, this thesis will develop an explicit lexicon for architects to employ in managing the ‘metadata’ that buildings perpetually emit. As a matter of design, these structures will operate on the leaked visible, non-visible, and absent metadata generated incidental to our occupation of buildings. The pavilions will ultimately probe similar sets of conditions, each conveying a radically different tone. Whether stopping or amplifying, scrambling or spoofing, deceiving or decoding, they seek to effect a measurable change on the metadata leaked from within. In order to objectively critique their effects, the pavilions will initially tackle a single metadata type each possessing a distinct tone. Following these tests the pavilions will probe three or more forms of metadata leakage simultaneously, testing architecture’s capacity to consciously manage multiple forms of leakage.

Additional Information

Thesis advisers; Jonathan Massey, Alan Smart

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