Four bridges, one trench, a few cars and lots of people (Texas)

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dc.contributor.advisorLerup, Lars
dc.creatorRudloff, Francis Xavier
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:38:36Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:38:36Z
dc.date.issued1994
dc.description.abstractWhen U. S. Highway 59 was constructed through Houston, Texas in the 1950's a trench was dug. One neighborhood became two, as a third community of automobile commuters filled the gap. The proposition of the design thesis is to heal this "wound" by physically and conceptually expanding an existing public park currently sited on the north side of Highway 59 into the right-of-way on both sides of it and onto the bridges that cross it. The new "park" facilitates the development of different relationships between people on the highway and people off it, and between people on one side of the highway and those on the other. The thesis is an exploration of issues of scale, speed, "place-ness" and of architecture's role in the facilitation of human interaction. I come to the project as one who participates in the place both as a highway driver and a neighbor-hood resident, as a traveler and a dweller. I also come to the project as an outsider trying to observe the energy that makes up the system (the machinic assemblage, if you will) so that I might effect it with minimal means. My objective is to engage architecture and the process used to create it to facilitate the development of community among people.
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 1994 RUDLOFF
dc.identifier.citationRudloff, Francis Xavier. "Four bridges, one trench, a few cars and lots of people (Texas)." (1994) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13889">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13889</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2600
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13889
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectCivil engineering
dc.subjectUrban planning
dc.subjectRegional planning
dc.titleFour bridges, one trench, a few cars and lots of people (Texas)
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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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