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"The Unprogrammed Abstraction"

Koniski, Grant
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592135457002889

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2020, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
The continuing migration of tech workers have created a variety of architectural conditions in San Francisco; such as an abundance of luxury housing and lack of affordable or market rate housing. Renting a room is standard for professionals living in the city and many rooms do not offer living rooms or communal spaces for gathering, so much of the population is limited to just their personal box, their room. The displacement of San Francisco’s diversity has created a distaste within the native population towards the tech companies and their growing influence on art, architecture and culture. The city of San Francisco’s unique mild climate, beautiful landscape and architecture, sociable reputation, as well as the rich 220 public parks create a park atmosphere like no other city in the United States. San Francisco’s parks are commonly populated year round, full of people exercising, playing games, gathering, drinking, reading, playing music and so on, these lively green spaces are one of the trademarks of the outgoing city. This need for a space to gather does not get filled in winter months when the wind and rain pick up and the sun sets early making the once friendly park seem dark and uninviting. This natural transformation into winter is one that decreases the quality of life for those who rely on the park and are living in tight rooms without any communal space to gather. The lively character of San Francisco parks and the utility they provide for the local population at all hours creates an architectural opportunity to intervene and provide the same quality of utility or better for the locals in the winter time. The final interventions of this thesis are the conclusion of many permeations for interventions that formally respond to the defined 5 spatial parameters inherent in to all parks. Nearly all successful public parks can be organized into 5 key fundamental spatial characteristics: frame, enclosure, path, field, and slope. Identifying these modes of creating space provides a repeatable methodology for the quantification of a parks organizational systems and thoughtfully situate architectural interventions in a way that reinforces fundamental spatial characteristics of parks. The forms of this thesis are meant to simplify architecture down to its bare bones; a module, solid, void and translucent. The abstraction of architecture into the architectural object proposes a conceptual framework that invites a cohesive design logic that human scaled modular units prompt.The short term modular interventions of this thesis utilize standard wood framing and plywood modularly as a method of developing a cohesive set of architectural objects that promote passive recreation within San Francisco parks with the aim to supplement the populations lack of living spaces while expressing an aesthetic that is free from the influence and dependence on technology. This thesis began its investigations with the many architectural problems that plague San Francisco. Architectural problems that stem from the ongoing housing crisis, such as the extinction of living rooms and communal spaces in the majority of homes that rent. A lack of communal living spaces pushes the population to rely on their local neighborhood for living and gathering spaces. This dependence and loyalty San Franciscans have to their local neighborhood parks becomes a valuable phenomenon significant to the identity of San Francisco and it is this phenomenon that this thesis studies and develops into a set of abstract architectural interventions as a discrete way of easing the problems that plague the city.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
324 p.
Architecture
unprogrammed; abstract; form; minimalism; DIY

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  • Koniski, G. (2020). "The Unprogrammed Abstraction" [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592135457002889

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Koniski, Grant. "The Unprogrammed Abstraction". 2020. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592135457002889.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Koniski, Grant. ""The Unprogrammed Abstraction"." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592135457002889

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