A Meeting of Land and Water

What is the opportunity afforded by a distinction in geography? Can a building respond to a threshold, or meeting point between two distinct geographical conditions? In particular, the duality of land and water and the moment when these two elements meet, could indicate and influence form and structure. What is a potential response to such a condition in geography, what are the mechanisms and means by which a building could respond to such a condition? This project seeks to highlight and celebrate the distinction between land and water, a meeting point where land ends and a river begins. The building's form, structure, and material are a reaction to the geographic condition.

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

2008

Author dc:creator

• Hall, Vernon Anthony

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Jones, James R.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Edge, Kay F.
• Schubert, Robert P.

• Water taxi
• Water
• threshold
• public market
• land
• duality

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Dc Identifier Other

etd-05302008-162909

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/33348