Temporary Populations: An Architecture of the Interstitial
Author
Dewane, Rachel Anne
Date
2011Advisor
Pope, Albert
Degree
Master of Architecture
Abstract
One unique aspect of the extended stay hotel typology is that as demographics
of temporary populations within this dwelling type shift, relationships must
constantly be renegotiated. In order to best respond to the demands of this
spatial and temporal uncertainty, this project proposes new strategies for how
contingent populations and their accompanying programmatic temporalities can
cohabitate on the same site. The focus of this research is to leverage the latent
potentials of the interstitial space between bodies in an architectural assemblage
in order to activate, animate, and register relationships within a collective
program.
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Keyword
Architecture