Display Full Text | Download Full Text
17.48 MB PDF file

Degree

MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture, 2012.

Abstract

Buildings are a compilation of apertures through various shapes, sizes and materials that both separate and link spaces, people and environments. Apertures allow people, sound, light, and even meaning to pass thorough, becoming operational thresholds that can also contain, block, or filter the actions and desires of the occupants. As a case study of apertures, this project will examine the increasing gap between the Christian Church and current art and culture, and explore how these programs can be hybridized toward innovative dialogue thorough the architecture they occupy.

In a converted warehouse in Corryville (Cincinnati), an existing space is transformed to contain both a Church and an Art Gallery program. Treating the building as an aperture, recycled and re-purposed elements from around Cincinnati are introduced to mediate the sacred and profane moments in the hybrid building program through a series of specific, mobile, experimental apertures. Full scale investigations are used to explore the spatial qualities and outcomes of these apertures in real space. This inquiry of viewing the building as a series of flexible apertures made up of recycled elements leads to an understanding of how these sacred and profane activities can occupy the same space, and be mediated in multiple ways.

Subject Headings

Architecture

Keywords

Sacred; Aperture; Reused

Committee / Advisors

John Eliot Hancock, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jeffrey Tilman, PhD (Committee Member)

Pages

87p.

Document number: ucin1337363338
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337363338

This ETD has been downloaded 15 times (through March 2013)