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Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Architecture
Degree Type
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
Year Degree Awarded
2014
Month Degree Awarded
September
Abstract
For nearly a century, once prosperous mill communities throughout New England have struggled to adapt to ever-changing societal, cultural, and economic conditions. This project explores an architectural intervention for Fitchburg’s Rollstone Hill neighborhood, which seeks to reverse this trend by deploying a design strategy that begins with repurposing a 60,000 square foot mill. This strategy focuses on utilizing the fundamental and existing components of these planned communities—people, infrastructure, and economics—to cultivate the design and the relationships necessary to reconnect this neighborhood to the modern world.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/6121295
First Advisor
Blake Williams
Second Advisor
Kathleen Lugosch
Recommended Citation
Bujold, Ronald, "Reconnecting Mill Communities: An Architectural Intervention in Fitchburg, Massachusetts" (2014). Masters Theses. 75.
https://doi.org/10.7275/6121295
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/75