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Common ground : a Coast Guard station in Boston Harbor

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Machek, James Edward, 1977-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian.
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Abstract
This thesis begins with the premise that the natural landscape is not a benign entity, but an active operator in the act of spatial perception and space-making. Founded on this premise, the thesis seeks to develop techniques and propositions for constructing space and infrastructure in the hostile, ever-changing environment of an island shoreline. To investigate the transformative and evolutionary processes of the alongshore environment, relies not only on a fundamental understanding of the natural processes which shape it, but a reconsidering of the mode through which we conceive our natural surroundings. Accepting the shoreline as a place of change, we then open ourselves to an exploration of the physical, natural environment beyond the picturesque.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.
 
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2005
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30234
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture.

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