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

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dc.contributor.advisorLerup, Larsen_US
dc.creatorRudloff, Francis Xavieren_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:38:36Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:38:36Zen_US
dc.date.issued1994en_US
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.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 1994 RUDLOFFen_US
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>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2600en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13889en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.subjectCivil engineeringen_US
dc.subjectUrban planningen_US
dc.subjectRegional planningen_US
dc.titleFour bridges, one trench, a few cars and lots of people (Texas)en_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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