May 3-7, 2005
Thesis Presentations
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| suburban parking lot object SPLO | ||
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| Author(s): | Dana Karwas | |
| Instructor: | Baxi, Kadambari | |
| Class: | Final Project Seminar | |
| URL: | http://www.dk22.com/thesis | |
| A suburban public place that creates vitality and a collective identity for the residents of americas suburbs. | ||
| A suburban public place that creates vitality and a collective identity for the residents of americas suburbs. Utilizing the disconnected components that compose the suburbs, the public place of the suburbs will create versatility, serve the community, and encourage social interaction. Sited in the parking lots between the highways and the suburban focal points, the suburban public place will propose a social responsibility for the re-use of sprawl. The object mediates between the private vessel of the car and the public shopping mall. Instead of just-looking, driving, consuming, and shopping, suburban parking lot object offers a new suburban perspective for activity and socializing. The object positions itself at the shared level of the pedestrian and the car......the parking lot. The object creates the feeling of central community identity through the display of constantly changing news/announcements/messages and community information. It explores the possibility of the suburban strip mall parking lot as a new public social space for the suburbs. It is a space to hang out, lounge, communicate, meet others, socialize, and feel comfortable. In the process of using the object to gain information, the activity of using will suggest social awareness and communication. car=community SPLO is derived from the car. Now the car is used as community and connector at the same time. Users find SPLO to be a community communication vehicle that they can communitate and socialize with. | ||
| Audience: | Residents of Chesterfield, Missouri who use the Chesterfield Commons Strip Mall. | |
| Sources: | Splintering Urbanism networked infrastructures, technological mobility’s and the urban condition by Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin
Global cities Cinema, Architecture and Urbanism in a digital age The Death and life of great american Cities by Jane Jacobs The Unknown City by Borden Learning from Las Vegas Venturi, Brown Warped Space by Vilder A Pattern Language by Alexander Telecommunications and the City by Stephen Graham The Unknown City by Borden Building Suburbia by Dolores Hayden Edge City by Joel Garreau Powers of Ten Video by The Eames Office Me ++ by William Mitchell Suburban Nation by Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck THe Rise of the Network Society by Manuel Castells Slow Space edited by Michael Bell and Sze Tsung Leong | |