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Appropriating architecture
(1997) Zuchman, Allison C.; Casbarian, John J.; Gammard, Elysabeth; Pope, Albert
An architecture of object((ive)(s)(ivity)): Operations on the urban field
(1993) Stevens, Kevin Andrew; Casbarian, John J.
Historically, architectural projects are based on a critically defined position within the culture of which they are a product. In the city of white noise there is no inherent direction or critically definable positions in the traditional sense, only limitless possibilities and options characterized by an inherent silence. It is the position of this thesis that it is the role of the architectural project to again inhabit the city on its own terms. Individual works of architecture must now begin to fill the void left by the demise of urban design. The city as field is approached in terms of matrix, frame, and module as an attempt to question the possibilities of the role of the architectural project within the city as it is currently found.
Borderwall: Peace and the future of the Korean Demilitarized Zone
(2008) Park, Joanne Min-Young; Casbarian, John J.
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has divided the Korean Peninsula for over fifty years, and during this time, it has transformed into an accidental wildlife refuge. The Borderwall project preserves the DMZ as a wildlife refuge but allows for exchange and development to occur along a recently rebuilt railway-highway line that runs between the North and South. By rotating the border along a perpendicular axis, the project exaggerates the railway-highway's gesture of reunification and defies the existing borderwall condition. This line of development creates a compressed zone of interaction and produces a physical proximity and built world that the DMZ currently denies. The Borderwall project expands and contracts in time, and provides a symbol and architectural embodiment of evolving inter-Korean relations.
Dirty blue on not-so-white walls for the Wittgenstein house
(1997) Parke, David; Gammard, Elysabeth; Farouki, Sohela; Lerup, Lars; Casbarian, John J.
Floating: An infrastructural response to disaster
(2008) Hettwer, John; Casbarian, John J.
The bleak aftermath following recent catastrophes, natural and otherwise, owes as much to the failure of agencies, in the case of hurricane Katrina, as it does to the lack of any speedy apparatus capable of responding to, and commensurate with, the scale of the disaster, in the case of the 2004 Tsunami. An enormous death toll, (283,000 in the tsunami) and zero survivors have become typical outcomes. The legacy of these events is a new anxiety about the chances of surviving not just the event itself, but perhaps an additional period of disorganization afterwards. A barely-addressed paradox lays at the heart of disaster relief: Infrastructure crushed & lost underneath the debris field, is urgently needed to rescue and reach those lost in it. The most powerful vehicles which respond, and which do so slowly, are normative, & terrain-based, but there is no terrain to speak of, as disasters characteristically disrupt the ground-plane and local conveyance significantly. Floating strives to devise a light, adaptive system suitable for all catsatrophic scenarios; irrespective of economy, cimate, terrain, local technological development and debris coverage to reach, rescue and rehouse those affected in the immediate timeframe following onset. It advances a recovery mode that can overcome lost infrastructure very quickly and powerfully, regardless of any impasse at ground level.
Polytectic
(1997) Ridenour-Krockel, Sara Elizabeth; Casbarian, John J.; Kwinter, Sanford; Roy, Lindy; Wolin, Richard
In the fragmented, polymorphous world we presently inhabit, is synthesis applicable or even relevant? The conflict, tension, and struggle inherent in the attempts at reconciliation between architectural theory and architectural praxis re-visit the Hegelian synthetic dialectic in the search for configuration and inscription (or reconfiguration and reinscription) within fragmentation. The question remains whether this self-unfolding of events is a holistic or heterogeneous construct. In this inquiry, the interrogation begins a the pivotal comer of an urban parking garage and with a succession of catalytic programs and residents. Linear construction documentation unravels to reveal the delineation of spatial unwrapping across the plastic surface.
Riding the urban carpet building acts and performative strategies
(1997) Dragna, Nick Charles Jr.; Casbarian, John J.; El-Dahdah, Fares; Brown, David P.
Santiago De Compostela: An Allegorical Inerpretation of Its Urban Fabric
(1997) Platero, Carmen; Gammard, Elysabeth; Casbarian, John J.; Kauffmann, R. L.; Bell, M. J.
The museum typology under stress: A design proposal for a scattered site jazz museum in New Orleans (Louisiana)
(1995) Powell, Joseph Lee, III; Casbarian, John J.
The museum as a public place for the continuing cultural education of the individual is a social institution whose purpose has seemingly become dated through the advent of cultural diversity, interactive information technology, and the economic rigours of late capitalism. Whereas the museum still has a place and program, its presence as an architectural type has diminished due, in part, to uncertainty in the architect's response to a changing cultural site. Using a component of a scattered site jazz museum in New Orleans, a design is proposed to establish a museum for the purpose of (re)collecting the many relationships lost to us, rather than establishing the narrative of the traditional museum or sacrificing the museum to the onanistic pleasures of commodity fetishism.
The necessity of hallways: Path making and the re-formation of a Japanese tea garden into an East Texas roadhouse
(1995) Davidson, J. Duncan; Casbarian, John J.
By identifying key events in the ceremonial movement of a person through a traditional Japanese tea garden and comparing this "event sequence" to a patron's path through a rural American bar (a roadhouse) it is argued that (1) the tea garden and roadhouse are both examples of interactive environments that encourage specific behavior of visitors, (2) events experienced in a particular sequence defines (psychologically if not physically) a pathway between two places, (3) such "pathways" establish a sense of relationship amongst different locations and consequently tend to organize the fragments (elements) of a given landscape, and (4) within the study of "pathways" there are useful techniques to be learned for constructing "perceived geographies" of high complexity.
Thresholds: Gradients of activity in a changing landscape
(2006) Frick, Kerri; Casbarian, John J.
There is no such thing as a natural landscape. All environments are imagined, shaped and controlled by humans. This thesis aims to expose the life of a landscape, to study the activities and interests that inform landscape. It is possible to organize interests in a way that provides for flexible and dynamic change and growth of those interests supported by the landscape. This study is played out on one particular landscape, Lake Murray, South Carolina. Lake Murray is a hydroelectric reservoir located just west of the capital city of Columbia. The dam provides power and drinking water for the area. However, fluctuations in water levels that result from power generation are unpopular with lake residents and users. They would prefer lake levels be kept high at all times regardless of power needs. Development around the lake is growing at a rapid pace and if left unchecked could seriously affect wildlife, drinking water, and recreation. It is possible to see the fluctuating lake levels as an opportunity to enhance use and enjoyment of the lake while preserving it and providing maximum hydro-electric power.
Towards a complex minimal architecture through twentieth-century music
(1996) Powell, James; Casbarian, John J.
This thesis formulates a general theory of a complex minimal architecture, then achieves an initial manifestation by applying concepts and modulatory operations of twentieth-century music to the design of a concrete architectural object. Complex minimalism involves the precise selection of a minimal number of concepts or forms, to which are applied a limited number of transformational processes in the service of generating a rich and meaningful architecture. Starting with the fundamental notions of coalescence, the cloud, and comma, several sound-matter techniques of composition are analyzed, abstracted, and distilled. These notions, which include structure and ratio, are used in the selection of the materials and processes of the design project, resulting in a soft, translucent architecture of simplicity and spirit.
Urban Frame; after endless [inner] deja vu
(2010) Gillespie, Benson Bright; Casbarian, John J.
The continuous interior of endless Junkspace, is, at its best, the compulsive repetition of itself. This architectural condition, which exists worldwide, is characteristic of airports, casinos, malls, urban tunnel/skyway systems and transit linked nodal developments. Constantly expanding due to the elevator, escalator and A.C. Unit, this endless internal condition is completely self-sufficient, operating without formal, programmatic or site constraints. The inside is the extreme of "Bigness"; a seamless, generic, interiority where the relationship between inside and outside no longer exist. By pairing the current endless interior with post-bigness urban strategies, a new urban scenario emerges that problematizes the genericity of the seamless interior while simultaneously disrupting the undifferentiated urban relationship of the block or mega-block to its non-context. The project uses the scale of the endless building as infrastructure to explore the possibility of an After-Bigness, After-Generic moment.

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