Hydrosocial Spaces

Chambers, Lindsey

Hydrosocial Spaces

dc.contributor.advisor	Nichols, Sarah
dc.creator	Chambers, Lindsey
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-05T16:29:45Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-05T16:29:45Z
dc.date.created	2022-05
dc.date.issued	2022-04-19
dc.date.submitted	May 2022
dc.date.updated	2022-10-05T16:29:45Z
dc.description.abstract	This project concerns the many forms of water in Houston. Existing in dual states—referencing Ivan Illich’s H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness—water is both life-giving and treacherous. Houston’s water exists as a resource for living and playing, in its parks, bayous, and public pools. Alternately, water threatens life and property, as the city has been developed too close to its waterways. This thesis reimagines Houston’s public relationship to water, considering the intersections of the cycles of water collection, purification, and use with infrastructures of recreation and water storage. Multiple kinds of water are dealt with across one site, offering an alternative to existing forms of retention and detention in Houston to create a new series of hydrosocial spaces that allow the public to enjoy water recreation and engage with many different points of the water cycle.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Chambers, Lindsey. "Hydrosocial Spaces." (2022) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113487">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113487</a>.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113487
dc.language.iso	eng
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.
dc.subject	Landscape Architecture
dc.subject	Architecture
dc.subject	Houston
dc.subject	Parks
dc.subject	Water Infrastructure
dc.title	Hydrosocial Spaces
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.material	Text
thesis.degree.department	Architecture & Bldg Science
thesis.degree.discipline	Architecture
thesis.degree.grantor	Rice University
thesis.degree.level	Masters
thesis.degree.name	Master of Architecture