Re-creating the context : the design of a community theater
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Author(s)
Crosley, Mark Lauden.
Date Issued
1982
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Herein lies the design of an imaginary building in a very real neighborhood. The building is, among other things, a theater, café, childcare facility and guest house. The neighborhood is a 100 year old urban residential neighborhood, a comfortably-scaled place that is well-liked by its inhabitants. The rationale for imagining a building into this context is the following: In a residential neighborhood, public and commercial buildings must be clearly seen as such, but ought not be so discontinuous as to disrupt the neighborhood. How, then, can the form of a public building reinforce the total form of the neighborhood, while establishing a clear difference in use? I have developed a method of analyzing an existing place in order to make conscious decisions about reinforcing and transforming the existing context, and applied it to the design of this single building.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1982
Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105).
Subjects
Architecture.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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