Sites of friction : borders of the banal
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Author(s)
Donohue, Lilly (Lilly L.)
Advisor(s)
Ann Pendleton-Jullian.
Alternative Title
Borders of the banal
Date Issued
2006
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This project considers the duality of friction as a force which is simultaneously threatening and essential; responsible for destruction and violence, yet vital in precipitating progress and new relationships within the urban context.The thesis uses Boston as a case study and investigates its history of social conflicts from its puritan origins to present day.The recent shift to a sublimation of friction between groups within the city is theorized as a source of stagnation.The project examines this issue, centering on two adjacent yet isolated communities in the Dorchester neighborhood and proposes the introduction of a series of physical borders which are housed within several seemingly banal commercial buildings.The border is offered here not an object to further divide, but paradoxically as a necessary edge condition which permits contact and thus re-establishes friction between these neighborhoods.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-120).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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