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Reciprocal Capacities and Adaptive Space

Seymour, Ciara K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306500559

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2011, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The socio-cultural context is rapidly changing, yet much of the resultant architecture has remained unchanged, in process and performance. More mutually enriched relationships between people, the space they inhabit, and the environment may be achieved through an architecture that responds to building occupants and environmental factors. In creative appropriation of technological advances, the space envelope—relative to a more responsive architecture—exceeds its meaning as mere element of enclosure and exclusion. The exterior wall is relieved of its nuanced label as boundary, of the dualistic positions of inside and outside, and moreover, becomes an interface between environments, which lie on both sides. The thesis proposes an architecture that actively differentiates environmental conditions and socio-ecological context through morphological and material articulation. By identifying and relating the behavioral tendencies and performance capacities of material systems with environmental and social inflection the resulting provisions and opportunities for inhabitation approach an architecture that engenders emergent and intensively choice-driven patterns of social formation and occupation. Varied expression and spatiality can provide diverse spatial arrangements together with climatic intensities. The concept proposes a shift from mono-functional modularized building elements, based on linear task-solution concepts, to integral systems with non-linear, complex behavior and properties.
George Bible, MCiv.Eng (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, MARCH (Committee Chair)
64 p.
Architecture
adaptive space; interactive; reciprocal relationships

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  • Seymour, C. K. (2011). Reciprocal Capacities and Adaptive Space [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306500559

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Seymour, Ciara. Reciprocal Capacities and Adaptive Space. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306500559.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Seymour, Ciara. "Reciprocal Capacities and Adaptive Space." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306500559

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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