Engaging the freeway as urban space: Finding legibility and order in the high speed landscape

The vast and speed-swept space of the urban freeway challenges the capacity of the city to serve as a vessel for collective and individual identity. Humanist space, which once gave definition and meaning to the place of the individual in the city, has been obliterated by the vector of speed, to the detriment of the physical environment. The highway is a permanent reality in the modern city which must be dealt with as an integral part of the total urban landscape. This thesis will explore the potentials of urban space that engages the freeway. It will investigate the possibilities of establishing a reciprocity between architecture and the space of high speed movement whereby building volumes and structural rhythms might be generated by the forces of flow and movement and in turn might contribute to making the highway a meaningful and memorable "place" in the city.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor

Rice University

Year dc:date.issued

1993

Author dc:creator

• Gamard, Paul Hampton

• Geography

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13727

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.rice.edu:1911/13727