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Constellations and anti-corridors

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Author(s)
Ferentinos, Andrew (Andrew George Phillip)
Advisor(s)
Alexander D'Hooghe.
Date Issued
2012
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
To perceive the many stars in the sky, corridic logic would force one to view one star at a time, one after the other in a linear order. An anti-corridic logic, on the other hand, is non-linear and permits constellations to emerge: many stars can be perceived at once and the imagination can link them into any desired figure. The space of corridors is linear: rooms are perceived and passed in a fixed sequence of one space following another. The space of anti-corridors is non-linear: rooms are dispersed into a field. Many spaces can be perceived at once and one can pass through them in any order. Desired constellations can emerge. Airports and intermodal hubs typically follow corridic logic. An airport/intermodal hub that is anti-corridic disperses all spaces into a field of options whereby individuals with different itineraries can perceive and move through a field of spatial choices resulting in ideally perceived and desired spatial constellations. This thesis proposes a prototype for an anti-corridic airport/ intermodal hub.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.
Page 77 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-69).
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Architecture.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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