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Soft Edge: the Architecture of Thresholds in the Urban Landscape of San Diego

LANE, JESSICA K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212183865

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2008, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture.
The recent intensity of urban development in San Diego is prefigured by its frontier mentality of compounded edge conditions. Regional geography, international politics, economics and history reinforce a pattern of local containment superimposed with the smooth space of militarized, infrastructural and technological corridors that collapse distance. The frontier is multiple: “borderlands” of shifting margins where ephemeral lines of exchange physically divide and polarize terrain and bodies. This thesis will explore borderlands as scalar phenomena materialized architecturally; infrastructure spanning from microscopic technology to tools of globalization is actively interfaced at the scale of the body by architecture that permits or denies access. In this context, borderlands are places of possibility, where architecture…#8482;s human scale can re-territorialize communication and exchange trajectories by tapping into and supporting conditions of intersection. If architecture as the “third skin” of the body has been a point of departure for investigating function and materiality, it still has not mitigated the “surface;” placelessness and sensory deprivation pervasive in southern California…#8482;s built landscape. Using tactics of softness and flexibility, architecture in these selectively porous nodes can re-infiltrate and re-connect urban marginal space with the flow of resources and collective life of the city.
Rebecca Williamson (Committee Chair)
Jay Chatterjee (Committee Co-Chair)
Marshall Brown (Committee Member)
30 p.
Architecture

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  • LANE, J. K. (2008). Soft Edge: the Architecture of Thresholds in the Urban Landscape of San Diego [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212183865

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • LANE, JESSICA. Soft Edge: the Architecture of Thresholds in the Urban Landscape of San Diego. 2008. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212183865.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • LANE, JESSICA. "Soft Edge: the Architecture of Thresholds in the Urban Landscape of San Diego." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212183865

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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