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Endogenous Process & Designing Through Change
Document Type: Campus Access
Degree Program
Architecture
Degree Type
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
Year Degree Awarded
2009
Month Degree Awarded
May
Primary Subject Category
Architecture
Secondary Subject Category
Art; Design; Landscaping
Keywords
Endogenous, Inflection, Waterfront, Community, Design
Advisor(s) or Committee Chair
Lurasi, Skender
Ryan, Robert
Abstract
This project was an exercise in aligning my intuition, community experience, and design sensitivities under the pretext of an architectural expression. My desire was to work endogenously, or out of my home environment, on a project that had no clear programmatic or formal requirements or limitations. I began by assessing a prevalent issue in my home town (a connection between the river and the town center) both from the top down and the bottom up. Throughout, I sought to challenge my preconceived notions of what might be, and allow a design process to emerge out of the layers of information I had absorbed as a participant in this holistic landscape. Inflection and change became a driving force in this pared down design process, and through them came a working territory that framed the programmatic and formal specificities of the South River P.O.R.T.
Discipline(s)
Architectural History and Criticism | City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning | Landscape Architecture
Recommended Citation
Emond, Matthew W., "Endogenous Process & Designing Through Change" (2009). Masters Theses. Paper 300.
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/300
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