Exchange: People and Places

Abstract

A city: pieces, many different people and places that all come together. We can never know how they will fit together or if they will cohesively fit at all, but we can try to create an environment that will facilitate strong connections between them all. As these pieces begin to overlap, slip past, or bump up to one another whether they like it or not they create exchanges. Whether it is an accidental exchange between two people on the street, or the exchange of a building emerging out of the landscape, this thesis looks to explore further what is embedded in the notion of transaction and exchange and how can an architecture begin to weave itself into and out of an area to bring these pieces closer together possibly creating a tighter knit for an area? From the broader scale of viewing a site in its larger context down to the smaller scale of how an individual operates within a space there is the opportunity to create new possibilities for people to experience when these threads and pieces begin to overlap. What effects do these exchanges have on the people and places involved? It is possible for someone to view a place or space in a new way when it is coupled next to or intertwined with the landscape in a way that is not expected?