Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal

Title:	Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal
Author:	Stulen, Eliot Falk
Other Contributors:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Advisor:	Sheila Kennedy.
Department:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
Publisher:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Issue Date:	2009
Abstract:	Over the past five decades, the American urban industrial landscape has become marginalized as the expanding global economy has sought international markets for manufacturing. At the agency of the user-as-investor, this proposal seeks to re-manufacture the post-industrial site to explore the problem of how to effectively reclaim salvaged materials for on-site reuse. As a critique of speculative, clean-slate development, the thesis will explore an incremental disassembly and phased reorganization of a site in Brooklyn at the material and urban scale. Through on-site implementation of manufacturers and automated tooling, this project will speculate on means of creating new value for salvaged materials. The resulting form is a vaulted roofscape that supports public access and leisure space while creating a local strategy for post-industrial renewal.
Description:	Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-73).
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49736
Keywords:	Architecture.

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