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Architectural Palimpsest: Presencing the Marks of Process, Weathering, and Use

Kashyap, Pooja
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8748-1331
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653477

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2016, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Contemporary buildings have become a sort of spectacle, image products advertising ageless perfection, made for consumption and devoid of humanity. Contemporary works conceal rather than engage metaphysical aspects of human reality including time, process, memory, and imagination. By designing spaces that reveal themselves, their traces of time, making, use, wear and weathering, architecture can engage people in the metaphysical aspects of their reality. Abandoned buildings offer examples of time’s inevitable impact on architecture as well as human life that can directly engage people in metaphysics. A critical restoration and adaptive reuse of Cincinnati’s abandoned Republican Club building into an urban hardware store, material library, and material testing shop will showcase moments of weathering, decay, wear, and marks of making while teaching designers and builders about material properties and assembly. If successful, this thesis will establish methods for preserving and creating moments of metaphysical presence in architecture, allowing architecture to escape spectacle and return to the shared existential experience of humanity.
William Williams, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Jeffrey Tilman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
29 p.
Architecture
Architecture; Palimpsest; Abandoned; Weathering; Metaphysics; Time

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  • Kashyap, P. (2016). Architectural Palimpsest: Presencing the Marks of Process, Weathering, and Use [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653477

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kashyap, Pooja. Architectural Palimpsest: Presencing the Marks of Process, Weathering, and Use. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653477.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kashyap, Pooja. "Architectural Palimpsest: Presencing the Marks of Process, Weathering, and Use." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653477

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