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| Title: | Anchoring Detroit's Shifting Contextual Ground |
| Authors: | Field, Sarah (Chaney) |
| Copyright Date: | 2005 |
| Abstract: | How do architects contribute to the physical city? And, what role does architecture play in
the process of the city making? It is the edges or sense of edges that architects contribute
to the physical city. By breaking down the development of edges, you are able to see the
layering and the relationship of the edges to each other. Architects are able to form the
edges and relationships between.
Urban design is the negative (in-between) spaces that are created in between buildings
(objects). The "in-between spaces" have the potential to have a reciprocal relationship to
the building, street and spectators. In reviewing the city of Detroit and seeing all the negative
spaces that are created by the shrinking city, I believe these negative spaces have
the potential to be a great asset to the city.
Detroit's contextual ground is always shifting. The shifting is caused by the evaporation of
buildings within Detroit's contexts. Anew layer needs to be added to anchor (slow down)
the evaporation and shifting ground. Working upon and weaving together the new layers
of texture which are embedded within Detroit's fast shifting contextual ground will help
anchor the shifting.
The premise of the thesis investigation is in the idea prescribing urban design strategies
can be used at alternate scales to address the architectural scale. When the architecture
ofa city communicates with the urban realm, the result is a healthy dynamic condition. By
translating this urban strategy into the scale of the building, I believe a more integrated
and thoughtful architecture can emerge. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10429/208 |
| Appears in Collections: | Architecture Thesis Collection
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