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Reclaiming the Fall Zone: Mediating Physical and Cultural Exchange in Richmond, VA
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, 2016.
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Abstract
- This thesis will address cultural and physical place reclamation, at the ambiguous intersection of ‘city’ and nature.’ By creating a juxtaposed sequence of multi-scalar interventions, which challenge the conventional boundaries of architecture, and landscape architecture; in order to make commonplace a new dynamic threshold condition in Richmond, Virginia. At its core, this thesis is an attempt at place-making on a site which has become ‘no place.’ This concept will be manifest via a landscape park on Mayo Island in Richmond, anchored by a community retreat center, and architectural follies along a constructed path. The interventions will coincide with value of place in historical Richmond: an integrated, socially desegregated waterfront hinge; a social nexus of inherent change, at the point which the river itself changes at the fall line.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b3b6d663d953370156f9052dc7ccd390
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.13016/m2g20p