Common Place: collective housing in the bluegrass

This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The housing complex deals with architecture's relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex deals with place through a connection to the regional built and natural context. By externally revealing programmatic relationships through massing and allowing individual housing units to assert themselves within the collective, the complex becomes an interconnected housing cluster that is neither house nor barn. It instead imparts the image of a small village or settlement, the essence of community.

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

2011

Author dc:creator

• Sears, Caleb O'Connor

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Bryon, Hilary

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Gartner, Howard Scott
• Bassett, James C.

• landscape
• context
• housing

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Dc Identifier Other

etd-09082011-172453

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/34979