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Narrative Landscape: Sculpting Form through Memory

Soffer, Jessica E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306499756

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2011, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Transforming past events (natural disasters) into visual and experiential expressions in the built landscape provides a specific site for community member interactions and connections to occur based on these shared memories. Philosopher, Maurice Halbwachs popularized the idea of collective memory claiming that individual memories only exist within the social framework of a group in society. Aldo Rossi applied collective memory to the city, citing the people objects, and places as participating in the transformation of space as representative of a common narrative. Sophia Psarra defines narrative in architecture as the construction of meaning in buildings through social relationships and cultural implications. The concept of monument is a representational and experiential tool for connecting these memories and narratives to a community. Many landscaped riverfront parks and memorials, including Promenade Samuel-de Champlain (Quebec), the Olympic Sculpture park (Seattle), River Coast park (Argentina), and the Parc de la Villette design submission by Rem Koolhaas, address issues of place making by treatment of the river edge, memory through materials, form, program, construction of monuments, and the creation of a regulating structure for designing a park at the urban scale. By constructing a narrative landscape for Nashville, Tennessee based on the May 2010 flood, previous floods, and cultural events, a collective memory can be established for the current and future communities of Nashville. In reclaiming the riverfront of downtown Nashville for a community music center and park, the design will address the history of the place, social interactions and shared experiences in ranging scales of community spaces, flood mitigation, the use of monument, and the use of metaphor in design.
George Bible, MCiv.Eng (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, PhD (Committee Chair)
82 p.
Architecture
memory; narrative; monument; Nashville; community; park

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  • Soffer, J. E. (2011). Narrative Landscape: Sculpting Form through Memory [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306499756

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Soffer, Jessica. Narrative Landscape: Sculpting Form through Memory. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306499756.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Soffer, Jessica. "Narrative Landscape: Sculpting Form through Memory." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306499756

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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This open access ETD is published by University of Cincinnati and OhioLINK.