Viewfinder

Casper, Mary

Viewfinder

dc.contributor.advisor	Geiser, Reto	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Wittenberg, Gordon	en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Colman, Scott	en_US
dc.creator	Casper, Mary	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-08-05T20:31:07Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2014-08-05T20:31:07Z	en_US
dc.date.created	2014-05	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-04-25	en_US
dc.date.submitted	May 2014	en_US
dc.date.updated	2014-08-05T20:31:07Z	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Elderly housing remains one of the few viable social housing types in the United States today; and yet, its social quality is often obscured. The historic heart of social life—the residence—hides behind solid facades that isolate residents from their broader networks and comprehension within the city. Viewfinder is a retirement home in Los Angeles, California. The retirement home offers a highly diverse group of users: residents, support staff, and visitors, amplified in this project through ancillary programs including a daycare center and a branch library, located at the highly visible intersection of US Hwy 101 and Vermont Avenue. The design uses a meta-prism that breaks into pieces and formalizes aprogrammatic places for seeing and being seen. Residential units push to the edges, where three levels of care assert unique facade conditions in the residents’ private exterior spaces. Private spaces, celebrated at the project’s boundaries, lend the center its openness, apertures, and freedom of geometry.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Casper, Mary. "Viewfinder." (2014) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/76421">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/76421</a>.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1911/76421	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.rights	Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.	en_US
dc.subject	Retirement home	en_US
dc.subject	Los angeles	en_US
dc.subject	Elderly	en_US
dc.subject	Housing	en_US
dc.subject	Architecture	en_US
dc.subject	Image	en_US
dc.subject	Formalism	en_US
dc.subject	Prism	en_US
dc.title	Viewfinder	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.type.material	Text	en_US
thesis.degree.department	Architecture	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Architecture	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	Rice University	en_US
thesis.degree.level	Masters	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Architecture	en_US