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A Disturbance of Memory on Sutro Bath: The Uncanny of the Ruins

Memarandadgar, Kiana
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522419231858155

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2018, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
This thesis studies the spatial uncanny in order to respond to the desire to exploit the intangible subconscious through architecture. Incentives in the surrounding world can evoke the repressed thoughts and feelings that consistently dwell in the psyche. The uncanny, the strange in the familiar, evokes these repressed forces and brings them to the forefront. In order to understand what constitutes this condition in places with heightening the sense of uncanny, the characters and components of the uncanny are explored through investigations in the theory and the precedents. In particular, this thesis seeks to leverage the thematic precedents to recognize the methods and operations of uncanny. It extends these methods of interpretation and extraction of the repressed forces in the space by focusing on spatial. The investigation goes further to look at the inherently present uncanny emotions in sites of ruins, The Thesis examines the ruins of Sutro Baths, on the northwest of San Francisco which is one of the most visited locations in the Bay area. In addition to containing the remnants of a historic bathhouse, this site also possesses unique landscape conditions. This thesis tries to recognize the condition of the site and accentuate the uncanny and dream-like emotions of this landscape by inserting new interventions on the site. By interrupting the existing elements, the design is intending to introduce a new disturbance to the existing site.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
91 p.
Architecture
Uncanny; Ruins; Sutro Bath; Memory; Vidler

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  • Memarandadgar, K. (2018). A Disturbance of Memory on Sutro Bath: The Uncanny of the Ruins [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522419231858155

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Memarandadgar, Kiana. A Disturbance of Memory on Sutro Bath: The Uncanny of the Ruins. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522419231858155.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Memarandadgar, Kiana. "A Disturbance of Memory on Sutro Bath: The Uncanny of the Ruins." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522419231858155

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