Towards understanding a tower: the design of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal

This thesis explores the nature of building in a tower form at the special edge between land and water. Secondly, it pursues a coherent order both formal and ontological based on a circular geometry. This proposition is in the form of a tower/terminal for the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. It targets certain issues of circularity, permanence, and solidity which have become recurrent pursuits of the author. This entire inquiry is presented through the utilization of photographs, drawings, and text.

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

1995

Author dc:creator

• Saez, Mario Carlos Cortes

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Brown, William W.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Holt, Jaan
• O'Brien, Michael J.

• Architecture
• geometry
• permanence

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-02132009-172714

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/41124