Mediation between Architecture and Landscape

This thesis investigates how architecture engages with the natural landscape through iterative designs of exhibition space. Proposals of architecture adjacent to Smith Mountain Lake as well as along the Cascade Falls Trail in Virginia were considered. The design proposals led to a resolution that particular considerations are critical in relating architecture and nature, specifically a building's spatial organization and orientation, its materiality and tectonic assembly, and the bounding thresholds differentiating between inside and outside.

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

2022

Author dc:creator

• Li, Nong

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Bryon, Hilary

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Jones, James R.
• Thompson, Steven R.

• architecture
• nature
• landscape
• topography
• tectonics
• materiality
• threshold

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:35334

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/111589