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The Incremental House
Author Info
Neidhard, Paul
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8425-9348
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1553613964387707
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2019, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Abstract
Houses are one of the most paradoxical structures; they are conceived as unchangeable but are often changed. This is done because houses are expected to meet our needs as homeowners and consumers. But houses are often underutilized, and their primary function as a utility for living has been altered drastically so that they have become status symbols, glorified storage units, and symbols of what we want to be. Through an understanding of the way houses are utilized and an analysis of prototypical houses, this thesis seeks to define a new way of living and building a house. It seeks to understand the way people live in and use their homes. In an effort to combat continuously changing demands and expectations for ever more and better in homes, it seeks to define an approach to building a house incrementally, through construction, changes in the way we live, or modification. This creates a home that becomes adaptable, accessible, and economically and socially responsible. This thesis proposes a strategy for building houses incrementally and develops two narratives for how this could unfold. These narratives are exercises in behavioral architecture; they are not the ideal home but they respond to the habits and pitfalls of their users.
Committee
Vincent Sansalone, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Ed Mitchell, M.Arch (Committee Member)
Pages
79 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
Incremental
;
Behavioral
;
incrementally built
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Neidhard, P. (2019).
The Incremental House
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1553613964387707
APA Style (7th edition)
Neidhard, Paul.
The Incremental House.
2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1553613964387707.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Neidhard, Paul. "The Incremental House." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1553613964387707
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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