Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Transforming the waterfront
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018. ; This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. ; Cataloged student-submitted from PDF version of thesis. ; Includes bibliographical references (page 72). ; OUR relation with nature develops from an early age. The built environment, the food we eat and the pictures we see nurture and influence our ways of inhabiting the landscape and how that landscape inhabits our imagination and our conception of place. How we experience nature during the course of our lives inevitably shapes our understanding of it. In the Caribbean, the overall colonial history reveals patterns of settlement around the waterfront which function as physical formulations for social segregation and reclusiveness, disregarding public access and mixing. Whether for military purposes, or as a result of an economy heavily based on tourism the urban conditions showcase a deliberate and consistent public inaccessibility to the waterfront consequence of a politically imposed order. The urban logics of San Juan displays the immense distances between the majority of local inhabitants and the privilege few that coexists with the waterfront. The key word here is isolation. An island within an island. The context disappears. An old colonial fortress, a highway, huge apartment complexes, hotels and environmental pollution estrange the inhabitant from its immediate context. A social and cultural understanding of the waterfront emerges and with it a particular subject. In this scheme, the sea is for an outsider, a tourist or anyone who is willing to play or pay for such a role, even as a local. Far from reality, a paradise materializes: the Island of Enchantment where everything else disappears. New coastal challenges broad about by climate change cannot be avoided when proposing an alternate scheme which renders the waterfront accessible. This imposes paradoxical ...
Transforming the waterfront
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018. ; This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. ; Cataloged student-submitted from PDF version of thesis. ; Includes bibliographical references (page 72). ; OUR relation with nature develops from an early age. The built environment, the food we eat and the pictures we see nurture and influence our ways of inhabiting the landscape and how that landscape inhabits our imagination and our conception of place. How we experience nature during the course of our lives inevitably shapes our understanding of it. In the Caribbean, the overall colonial history reveals patterns of settlement around the waterfront which function as physical formulations for social segregation and reclusiveness, disregarding public access and mixing. Whether for military purposes, or as a result of an economy heavily based on tourism the urban conditions showcase a deliberate and consistent public inaccessibility to the waterfront consequence of a politically imposed order. The urban logics of San Juan displays the immense distances between the majority of local inhabitants and the privilege few that coexists with the waterfront. The key word here is isolation. An island within an island. The context disappears. An old colonial fortress, a highway, huge apartment complexes, hotels and environmental pollution estrange the inhabitant from its immediate context. A social and cultural understanding of the waterfront emerges and with it a particular subject. In this scheme, the sea is for an outsider, a tourist or anyone who is willing to play or pay for such a role, even as a local. Far from reality, a paradise materializes: the Island of Enchantment where everything else disappears. New coastal challenges broad about by climate change cannot be avoided when proposing an alternate scheme which renders the waterfront accessible. This imposes paradoxical ...
Transforming the waterfront
01.01.2018
1036986897
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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