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big space, little place and 11 retro-fit, future-fit strategies for emerging airports
(1999) Truitt, Alane Lynette; Bell, Michael
Air traffic has experience worldwide exponential growth which has in turn sparked off another chain reaction of new expanded facilities for air travel. Although the individual's radius of action continues to expand, space itself is being steadily reduced to a zone that is traversed, an interval in a continuous movement interrupted at most for a brief stopover. Scarcely anybody has a clearly formulated opinion about this transit zone, accepting it as inevitable. Within the last decade, airports have become such complete facilities dedicated to commerce or exploiting commerce opportunities based on the necessity of passing through and waiting. Within this system of shifting scales, economic intricacies, infrastructural units and individual experience, there is an opportunity in the expansion of airport facilities to exploit the inherent qualities through means that are more responsive to and change the individual experience of airports.
Modulating sound and motion: Electronic and physical membranes for urban dwellers
(1999) Horn, James Richard; Bell, Michael
Dwellings in congested urban areas are confronted with both invigorating and aggravating penetrations of proximic sound and street activity within constricted environments. Typically the physicality of a building is there to serve as SHELTER from weather, intruders, and to create an interior effect. Here building elements, both physical and electronic, are considered to serve as MODULATORS of environmental infiltration. If the DWELLING is a holistic physiological system then it should be an extension of our physiological being and an extension of the urban landscape. Attunement of infiltrating SOUND and VISION (or MOTION) for dwellings in urban areas can provide for more appropriate environments. Contextual sound and motion can be managed into useful energies in urban habitats to provoke different sensory terrains.
Permutation
(1997) Nichols, Christopher; Lerup, Lars; El-Dahdah, Fares; Bell, Michael
This is a story of two spatial designers: The Mathematician and the Architect. In the four dimensional space of a Mathematician, most physical realities must be ignored in order for the space to remain pure. The visual, one of the most powerful tools of the Architect, can coexist within the Mathematician's four dimensional world without affecting its purity. However, the Architect must ignore his/her physical realities, such as gravity, mass, and human scale. The Mathematician establishes the rules within which the Architect must operate. The Architect manipulates form through a structure that is defined by the Mathematician. The Architect explores spatial qualities through the tools that the Mathematician gives him/her. The Architect tries to understand the meaning of the form that both of them have created. He/she pushes the form in order for it to achieve spatial qualities. Together, the Mathematician and the Architect try to understand the meaning of such spatial qualifiers as: big/small, wide/narrow, inside/outside, and light/dark. The Architect starts to understand why spaces achieve these qualities in his/her physical world.
Re-inscribing the figure within the machinic sublime
(1995) Briner, Thaddeus Mies; Bell, Michael
Emerging morphology of American megalopoli includes a parallel arrival of megastructures and correlative empty spaces. Anthropomorphic relations to these phenomenon have been ignored in favor of economic efficacy and mass production. Although the scalar disjunction between space, form and figure is inherently a physically determinate one, it represents an existential conundrum concerning subjectivity as well; attempting to locate one's self among or between these megaobjects, one may also try to reconcile the externalized circumstances that created, and are right now becoming, these episodes of hyper-juxtaposition, i.e. late-capitalism. The philosophical armature of the sublime is equipped to contextualize this post- anthropomorphic architectural condition in terms of contemporary subjectivity and figural inscription. Conversely, the investigation reveals an effort to conjecture on an altered subject, in terms of what Jameson calls 'Hyperspace', the most recent mutation of space, having "succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organize its immediate surroundings perceptually$\...$"$\sp1$ ftn$\sp1$Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism: or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991), pg. 44.
Tearing a cleft in the continuous surface of reality
(1998) Thorne, Benjamin Brinklet; Bell, Michael
My thesis investigates representation and manipulation of spatial conditions intrinsically linked to the visual perception of materials and surfaces. Trying to develop architecture from visual relationships between materials, light, and the eye has required that I circumvent the objective view points of models, plans, sections, and elevations. I have constructed photographs directly from compositions of surfaces and light. The images are photographs of spaces which one perceives as inhabitable, spaces which are no longer tied to the size and scale of the compositions from which the images were derived.
Terminal project: intermodal passenger terminal for San Antonio, Texas uncertain ground
(1997) Whitehead, Kerry C.; Bell, Michael; Pope, Albert; Wittenberg, Gordon
The site acquired by the city is 14 acres of industrial rail corridor where nothing is developing or growing except for the weeds. The proposal for a new transportation terminal on such a site led to a hyper-real investigation of architecture among the blooming ruins typical of the contemporary city. Avoiding the assertion of form , rather intervening provisionally to provide a new public surface is presented. The architecture is modest in effort to unearth new territory in the construction of the city.
The garden in the machine: Rethinking nature and history in the post-industrial landscape
(1998) Terpeluk, Brett; Bell, Michael
Lying in the wake of accelerated technological advancement is a landscape of economic and environmental consequence. As older industrial facilities become obsolete, newer technologies look towards virgin land for growth. In turn, the industrial city, once the recipient of generous corporate taxation and stable work force, is saddled with social unrest, economic stagnation, and vast tracts of infrastructure-laden land. Such is the case with the vacated Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. At the root of this thesis is a conviction that regeneration of this site needs to be approached as a multidimensional phenomenon which touches upon the organic, the economic, and the chemical. As such, a kind of petri dish can emerge where physical entropy and the erosion of memory coexist with economic and ecologic growth. This thesis attempts to define a new beginning by bridging the cleft between growth and decay. The history of this site, its entropic future, and the beginnings of a new history are conflated into a single continuum.
Time and movement: A proposal for drift
(1995) Weeder, Dana Sundt; Bell, Michael
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 discrete experiences dictated by the tenets of a mechanistic conception of time. Rather, it is a fluid synthesis of past experiences and future expectations that 'gnaws' on the present. If this fluidity could be made visible through movement in our built environment, if we were made more aware of a changing present and the experience of being alive in time, an understanding of our chaotic urban condition would be made more legible and meaningful.

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