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Sublime, Contemplation and Repose: Reawakening Nuttallburg from West Virginia’s Industrial Descent

Blake, Benjamin R
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7665-2863
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554210934038553

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2019, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Sublime causes transcendence beyond individual understanding, prompting a mental feeling of smallness as a response to the environment. Contemplation follows the emotion-based response of the sublime, testing preconceived perceptions and initiating internal reflection and external dialogue. Repose is the comforting resultant condition, the calm that allows the sublime encounter to develop into memory, charged with the influence of an emotive architecture and environment. Sublime, contemplation and repose can be utilized as tools to formulate new respectful understandings of a site with hidden contextual opportunities. West Virginia has a rich industrial history which has helped to shape America in past centuries. This history has largely become dilapidated and confined to closed and abandoned facilities which are inaccessible and forgotten. The benefits that these facilities held within the country’s history is incomprehensibly great and West Virginia lacks the celebratory nature that the state deserves. The region of New River Gorge near the New River Gorge Bridge and the abandoned coal mining town, Nuttallburg, will act as a prototypical catalyst for architectural exploration and implementation through the sublime. Park service efforts have re-stabilized the existing coal facility structures within Nuttallburg, however have not provided further incentive for visitation and fall short in contextual comprehension. The site possesses inherent sublime elements within the surrounding nature, historical structures, coal production and hints of coal consumption. In proposing architectural interventions and expressions of site, aspects of the existing sublime will be enhanced, in addition to the creation of new complimentary moments of sublime. The unity between new architecture and existing context seeks to improve the perceived image of West Virginia and its vast contribution to nationwide industry.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
Vincent Sansalone, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
120 p.
Architecture
architecture; sublime; emotive; coal; West Virginia; New River Gorge

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  • Blake, B. R. (2019). Sublime, Contemplation and Repose: Reawakening Nuttallburg from West Virginia’s Industrial Descent [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554210934038553

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Blake, Benjamin. Sublime, Contemplation and Repose: Reawakening Nuttallburg from West Virginia’s Industrial Descent. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554210934038553.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Blake, Benjamin. "Sublime, Contemplation and Repose: Reawakening Nuttallburg from West Virginia’s Industrial Descent." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554210934038553

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