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| Title: | Implacing the Body |
| Authors: | Wehri, Jonathan |
| Copyright Date: | 2005 |
| Abstract: | I want to start with the idea that any place is saturated with qualities
and by placing architecture within any context is to re-interpret and
re-script the experience of the environment. In my thesis I sought
opportunities to re-engage architecture with its surroundings, thereby,
allowing new kinds of experiences to emerge.
These experiences, which are perceived by the body, are at the
crux of this investigation. Therefore, this thesis investigates the seam
between the body and architecture, and the architecture and the
environment.
Place is the bounds of our physical and mental world. It is
composed of two edges, the near edge or the skin and the far
edge or the horizon, the cityscape.
How do we use our body to understand epistemological place?
Can an act of search(ing), reveal(ing), and release(ing) begin to
establish new connections to place? Can multiple architectural
insertions enliven the experience of the city? By focusing on
multiple ambivalent and residual spaces, this thesis will seek to re-script
our understanding of the context within Detroit.
The investigation will happen between the seam of the body and
architecture. It will be a phenomenological approach into urban
design. It will seek and explore a dialogue between the event and
insertion. It will allow for events to occur that may amplify a sense of
being-in-the world through the body and movement. The
architecture may be a temporal place of shelter, protection, a
place to interact either socially or mentally. It will be the
opportunity for the possibility of collision of two bodies, a place to
allow streams of movement from one place to the next and act as
a mediation device. It will offer a chance of reflection or rest to
occur and refocus on pockets of activity. It may funnel people
through a brief exchange at a place before they move on.
Seven site circumstances situate this investigation in the Midtown
district. These site circumstances operate as insertions into the given
landscape. The idea of the insertions is to initiate cycles of activity
and re-activity between the existing context and the new inserted
spaces. By importing a foreign element I seized the opportunity to
foreground an embedded hidden quality and allow it to become
visible through the relationship with the proposed site circumstance.
The site circumstance by their nature, creates new thresholds
between themselves and the city. Embedded within them is a
given reciprocity that can diminish physical and conceptual
separations between the cityscape and the architecture. By virtue
of their scale and program they will act more as found objects than
as destinations. The intent of the insertions is to re-weave the
experience of the city. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10429/204 |
| Appears in Collections: | Architecture Thesis Collection
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