Building a landscape for dwelling

This thesis is an examination of future growth outside of the towns and suburban developments in Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Its aim is to offer projections for inhabitable physical form. These projections will be responsive to the many specific issues of a given site. Any project contains issues associated with four distinct sizes; namely, Overall Size, Collective Size, Containment Size, and Personal Size. From these issues and their ramifications, this thesis will develop continuities (i.e., of access, sizes, directions, and forms) at each size. The different continuities will reinforce one another in the design of a cohesive place for dwelling. The design projections will be applied to a 30-unit housing development to be built on 12 acres of wooded land, which is located along the western perimeter of Sellersville, Pennsylvania.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1981

Author dc:creator

• Raphael, Michael B

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Maurice Smith.

• Architecture.

Statement dc:rights

• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77276

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/77276