The Currency of Growth

Abstract

This thesis is an investigation whose purpose is to create a threshold between the natural and built environments and to discover to what extent that architecture at this juncture can invoke a phenomenological response, where phenomenology at it's simplest is that as we encounter an object either at rest or in motion the interpretation of the object is delayed allowing our conscious and subconscious mind to merge thereby accessing both personal memory and an inherent knowledge which all humanity shares. That which is considered to be inherent within this thesis is an innate connection to the natural environment, all that which both sustains and delights us the sun, the earth, the wind, the water. This thesis is based on the premise that architecture need not be limited to being placed among the landscape but that it can become of the landscape. This premise continues by realizing that this is accomplished only if from it's conception to it's realization that the architecture seeks not only to lessen it's impact on the natural environment but seeks to improve that which our evolution threatens therefore creating the threshold between the natural and built environments where neither that which is natural nor that which is constructed is more evident or of greater importance than the other but that which is pronounced and where phenomenology can reside is where the two intersect as it is this juncture which allows an infinite number of variables to occur .