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Five (metonymy, imaginative network)
(1995)
This thesis proposes an architectural project as an active field in which the process is indisociable from the actual material object: an imaginative network that adapts and reorganises itself in response to its own ...
Time and movement: A proposal for drift
(1995)
If the experience of one 'event' is followed by another, the memory of the two has merged thereby rendering it impossible to distinguish between the recollections of each. Human consciousness is not a linear passage of ...
Urban house: The ultrasonic blender confusion of twenty-first century society
(1995)
We are surrounded by devices that are designed to respond to us. They have been given a language of rhythm, movement, attachment, repetition, and layering. They are both overwhelmingly present and unseen. Mutably flowing ...
A reinhabitation: Five walls
(1995)
We, as inhabitors of a built society, are surrounded by spaces which go wholly unnoticed as we pass through them. These are the spaces of transition and passage, but by no means are they spaces without importance. The ...
Residential frameworks for the transient: A critical analysis of object event relationships in transient residential sites
(1995)
This thesis is an effort to respond to our unstable, de-centered quality of living. The single family house is not reflective of our dependency on mobility. As the ultimate transient, the homeless are the inspiration behind ...
The formative field
(1995)
From the continuous lines of force describing the body of space-time to the never-ending loops of turbulence at a waterfall's base, nature reveals itself as a dynamic energy-form. This evolving topology stands in contrast ...
Inhabiting downtown Houston: Density and hollowness in the contemporary city
(1995)
This thesis is an investigation of urban form, specifically urban form that allows for architectural interventions at a variety of scales, as well as an architecture that is at once, dense and porous. The idea derives from ...
Phenomenological process in mapping the city: Projective and representational alternatives
(1995)
In the process of delineating an ideological territory for lived experience and rational structure, the very nature of experience sometimes eludes our sensibilities. Event and memory are constantly being redefined, ...
Crash motel, perception and process: Machines for people who still walk
(1995)
"The Machine has not divorced us from nature. By means of the machine, we have discovered a new, previously unanticipated feature of nature."$\sp1$ Human Beings are divine because they participate in the movements of the ...
Physical and real-time delineations on the electro-mechanical threshold
(1995)
As we increasingly encounter electronic communication and information systems in our everyday environment, we must recognize and critically respond to their impact on built architecture and on our physical and social bodies. ...