Play-ground
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62140166-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Burow, Elizabeth Kathryn
Advisor(s)
Meejin Yoon.
Date Issued
2005
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Though currently bound by a purely horizontal logic and limited to fulfilling only the most basic provisions. the design of surface parking has significant latent potential. Taking from the rubber-stamped landscape strategies of municipal playgrounds found in urban America and the rubber-stamping strategies of big-box retail which are disseminated throughout the American suburban landscape, this thesis attempts to recover the surface parking lot by equating park and parking in a double-loaded program of 100 % PARK / 100% PARKING. With cues from the examination of play and game strategies, this thesis infuses the 'Lot' landscape with double meaning that attracts both the consuming and unassuming into a physical space of chance, strategy and play. As an adaptable cover with interwoven programs, the double-loaded the surface parking lot can then serve as a new landscape typology which responds to contextual situations and in turn sponsors new patterns of occupation.
Description
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.
In title on t.p., a single underscore comes between the words play and ground. Page 110 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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