Field of edges

dc.contributor.advisorHight, Christopher
dc.creatorRobinson, John Michael
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:35:47Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:35:47Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstract"Field of Edges" investigates how design modulates social and material worlds. Operative systems, infrastructural (freeways, roads) and ecological (bayous, land mosaics), provide objects of study to investigate territoriality and colonization. These systems are examined at the regional scale, the scale that connects the local with the global. Planimetric and sectional strategies are developed to maintain continuity and functioning as differing systems must navigate one another and the larger context. The strategies also offer methods of systems mapping one another through the design of performative substrates such that edges between systems manifest territoriality as thresholds or gradients, and thus the social world of interacting and competing agencies is manifested in material assemblages. The project takes as its site the existing urban condition of Houston and attempts to re-integrate or re-optimize fragmented regional networks.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent105 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2006 ROBINSON
dc.identifier.citationRobinson, John Michael. "Field of edges." (2006) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17911">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17911</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2826
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17911
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectUrban planning
dc.subjectRegional planning
dc.titleField of edges
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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