Utopia and Oblivion

This project investigates the possibility of expropriating the industrial infrastructure of a now defunct oil refinery for the bioremediation of toxic soils, restoration of functional riparian ecologies, and reinhabitation of the site by human and non-human life. The context of the project is based on the assumption that such an undertaking is highly unlikely under the current economic and political paradigm. As such it is situated in the distant future, the result of prolonged liberatory struggles over many generations.

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

2021

Author dc:creator

• Hack, Keith Martin

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Bassett, James

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Garcia Santiago, Cruz Edgardo
• Frankowski, Nathalie

• Architecture
• Networks
• Entanglement
• Reciprocity
• Expropriation

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:31549

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/103945