Turan, Neyran2013-03-082013-03-082011Highfill, Brantley Frederick. "Displacement Ecologies." (2011) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70261">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70261</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/70261This thesis defines displacement as the occupation of infrastructural voids for collective use. By calibrating patterns of appropriation, I propose displacement as a formal strategy for leveraging issues of demand. The discipline of architecture is becoming arguably subsumed by "sustainability"- an agenda which responds to demand with increased efficiency. Instead, this thesis ask how might systems of efficiency be leveraged for new modes of collectivity? Specifically, this project re-appropriates growing energy needs by proposing a pumped storage facility in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Current technologies accommodate the storage of energy through the physical displacement of water: a spatial exchange that I leverage to increase the city's collective space. Displacement reorganizes mass:void relationships. What if we design all voids? The Void:Void condition is a matrix of containers - some filled with people and others with water. Adjusting to changing energy and programmatic demands, displacement occurs as one void appropriates another.71 p.application/pdfengCopyright 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.Communication and the artsApplied sciencesLandscape architectureCivil engineeringArchitectureThesisHighfillBTHESIS ARCH. 2011 HIGHFILL