Unboxing Manhattan: An Architecture of Things

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dc.contributor.advisorWittenberg, Gordon
dc.creatorAndrew, Jacob
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-02T17:33:05Z
dc.date.available2017-08-02T17:33:05Z
dc.date.created2016-05
dc.date.issued2016-04-22
dc.date.submittedMay 2016
dc.date.updated2017-08-02T17:33:05Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis project elaborates upon the seemingly invisible urban space of online shopping. Through its necessity in delivering products to customers, online shopping has resulted in an intense physical occupation of the city streets by delivery trucks. These semi-permanent installations of delivery provide no benefit to the public realm and yet have become a very ubiquitous element of urban space. Architecture has the opportunity to provide the city with an alternative to the unending rows of delivery trucks by introducing a new form of infrastructural public space; the delivery station. As a point-based infrastructure, the delivery stations will be distributed throughout the city in order to accommodate neighborhoods and populations. While simultaneously offering a more convenient solution to the issues of delivery, these stations will become a part of the overall architectural language of the city. This thesis focuses on the particular architectural compositions and affects of the delivery stations by developing a catalogue of parts that can be deployed across the city and a system of tectonics that can be delivered to the site. Through the concepts of scalelessness and territoriality, this thesis proposes the development of an architectural type capable of producing a new public space around the delivery logistics of online shopping.
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dc.identifier.citationAndrew, Jacob. "Unboxing Manhattan: An Architecture of Things." (2016) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96222">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/96222</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/96222
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectLogistics
dc.subjectTerritorial
dc.subjectScale
dc.subjectLong Building
dc.subjectThin Building
dc.subjectLouvers
dc.subjectSystem
dc.subjectAesthetics
dc.subjectFedex
dc.subjectUPS
dc.subjectUSPS
dc.subjectAmazon
dc.subjectLockers
dc.subjectManhattan
dc.subjectDelivery
dc.subjectCongestion
dc.subjectOnline Shopping
dc.subjectEcommerce
dc.subjectNew York City
dc.subjectMadison Square
dc.subjectAstor Place
dc.subjectStuyvesant Town
dc.subjectStuytown
dc.subjectGreeley Square
dc.subjectBroadway
dc.subjectSubway
dc.titleUnboxing Manhattan: An Architecture of Things
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialText
thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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