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Incremental Reuse

Zunis, Courtney
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9912-3788
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491305134532705

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2017, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Cities with manufacturing roots still contain physical evidence of their once booming industries. Entire neighborhoods were built up around industrial facilities that now stand vacant and underused, often located near highways and railroads that make them very accessible, but undesirable. Midwest cities in particular have been forced to reevaluate the existing building stock and in many cases repurpose their structures and urban spaces for an ever-changing population with renewed interest in moving back to the city center. The size, structure, and location of industrial buildings present an opportunity to introduce housing to industrial neighborhoods at a larger scale. This thesis studies the previous home of the American Products Company, a 7-story building built in 1925 in the Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati. The goal of the research was to develop a prototype for the reuse of industrial buildings throughout the Midwest. The design proposes the use of flexible elements in the residential portion of the building in the spirit of Alejando Aravena’s incremental housing. Prefabricated spatial dividers can be moved and expanded to allow increased flexibility and customizability for all residents. The proposal also argues for the inclusion of a commercial element at the ground floor to engage with the surrounding community and bring residents closer to necessary resources. By focusing the design language around incremental and movable elements, the spaces retain as much flexibility as possible and allow each user to customize their space. This strategy returns control to the user, inherently resulting in greater feelings of ownership and satisfaction with one’s home. This method for approaching mixed-use, mixed income development is designed to be applicable in previously industrial neighborhoods across the Midwest.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Jeffrey Tilman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
74 p.
Architecture
Adaptive Reuse; Cincinnati; Industrial Reuse; Architecture; Incremental

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  • Zunis, C. (2017). Incremental Reuse [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491305134532705

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zunis, Courtney. Incremental Reuse. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491305134532705.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zunis, Courtney. "Incremental Reuse." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491305134532705

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© 2017, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Incremental Reuse by Courtney Zunis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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