Life in the City: Housing, History and the Supermarket, an Episode in Urban Architecture

The project began as a response to a proposal to construct a suburban style grocery store and surface parking lot in the middle of an existing residential neighborhood, including the substantial demolition and 'strip-mall' conversion of a historic theater located on the Washington, DC site. The Thesis evolved as an exploration of how do we reconcile our contemporary mercantile needs within the urban environment; specifically, how can one incorporate a suburban-scaled, 'big-box' retail structure in an existing, complex urban context. The proposal that follows offers an integrated, mixed-use and contextually sensitive solution, incorporating a full size grocery store (the most fundamental of our consumer needs) with multiple levels of parking below, new residential row-housing and commercial space above - retaining and restoring both the historic theater and the overall neighborhood fabric.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1996

Author dc:creator

• Parsons, Marc Alan

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Hunt, Gregory K.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Holt, Jaan
• Piedmont-Palladino, Susan C.

• vertical zoning
• housing
• design process
• supermarket
• detailing
• section

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-02212001-220230

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/31298