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Viewpoints: Visual Narratives in the Promenade Architecturale

Jenkins, Megan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378109196

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2013, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
As society shifts towards an understanding of the environment through the visual mediation of images, it has become increasingly important to define the architectural relationship between movement and view. The promenade architecturale strings interrelated spaces along a series of progressive views. Because this type of observation requires movement, there follows a relationship between the performance piece that can be formed through architecture, and the site-specific theatricality of the promenade architecturale, each bringing the action of architecture into site, space, and time. This thesis will examine the role of spatial manipulation through the progressive view in the promenade architectural, and theatricality's ability to reorient the occupant to their surroundings. Analysis of key works, in particular Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Villa La Roche, among other works, demonstrate movement's role in sequential progression, and re-introduce the idea of multiple viewpoints in performative architecture. The Barcelona Pavilion in particular suggests that the constantly shifting view is at the foundation of an experience of movement. Through these investigations, a proposed architectural design will use site-specificity in combination with progressive movement to bring the action of the site into space, time, and motion. A design for a public promenade correlated to the Santa Fe Train Depot, the trolley station, and the MCASD in downtown San Diego will make an inquiry into the possibilities of spatial sequence and the primacy of the interrelated visual experience in architecture. This paper weighs architecture as a type of site-specific theatricality because of its potential to combine the elements of context and view with movement and sequence.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
73 p.
Architecture
Theatricality; Site-specificity; Promenade; Corbusier; Viewpoints; Juvarra

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  • Jenkins, M. (2013). Viewpoints: Visual Narratives in the Promenade Architecturale [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378109196

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jenkins, Megan. Viewpoints: Visual Narratives in the Promenade Architecturale. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378109196.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jenkins, Megan. "Viewpoints: Visual Narratives in the Promenade Architecturale." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378109196

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