Crossings : the promise of proximity

There are four key notions underlying this thesis: a. there are forces at play which cause many of the home's systems to interact with each other in ways that may be intended or unintended; b. due to these forces, our understanding of each of the home's individual systems may not allow us to understand how they work together; c. in order to understand how the home "works", we may need to redefine its systems based on these interactions, or crossings, and develop an ecology of building systems; d. good-looking homes aren't good enough ... we must move toward the concept of a high-performance home, properly deploying our knowledge of these interactions. The thesis is organized in four principal sections: 1. Crossings proposes a typology for interactions among roleplayers, systems and materials in the home; 2. some of the problems associated with their interactions are illustrated by considering the evolution of the residential chimney (Pipeline to the Sky 1 and the residential wall (The Great Barrier Rift); 3. Toward the High-Performance Home considers the implications of those interactions; 4. the opportunities in those interactions are examined metaphorically in Service Core: The Promise of Proximity and Information: The Currency of Crossings.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1993

Author dc:creator

• Wrzeski, Stanley J.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Eric Dluhosch.

• Architecture.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141950

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/141950