Commons

dc.contributor.advisorHight, Christopher
dc.creatorBidaisee, Sharen
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:31:07Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:31:07Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractIn a knowledge economy, a fundamental tension exists between the incentivization of proprietorship, and the freedom of access to intellectual products that fuels further creativity. Institutional and disciplinary protectionism encounters its greatest challenges in the convergences of research targets and the increasingly athletic capabilities of communication media. Ultimately, the vast expenditure and low yield associated with certain R&D enterprises call for a more consolidated total effort. The Commons is a vehicle for synthesizing these considerations about a changing paradigm of research. It offers a physical framework for bridging discontinuity and intensifying exchange, as a catalyst for foregrounding ideas about collaboration. Adopting speculative laboratory space for bioscience research as a pilot program, the Commons is the product of the combined implementation of formal and leasing strategies to generate a hub of interfaces---between the physical and the virtual, between research and learning, between disciplines and institutions, and between the site and its immediate physical environment and beyond.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
dc.format.digitalOriginreformatted digital
dc.format.extent96 pp
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2005 BIDAISEE
dc.identifier.citationBidaisee, Sharen. "Commons." (2005) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17757">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17757</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2746
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17757
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsCopyright 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.subjectArchitecture
dc.titleCommons
dc.typeThesis
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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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