Drawing the Analogy: Nature as Idea, Architecture as Response

This thesis attempts to establish a first design philosophy by proposing nature and architecture as mutually interactive conceits within the scope of the design process. Positing that our conceptions of "green" design are rightfully influenced by the various and often highly metaphorical social constructions of nature that precede them, an architecural exercise is then explored as a similarly constructed response. After assembling a definition of nature based in part on the climate, terrain and traditional building practices of rural western North Carolina, a house is then posed for its site on the border of the Pisgah National Forest.

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

2006

Author dc:creator

• Sherwood, Stuart

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Cortes, Mario C.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Dunay, Donna W.
• Rodriguez-Camilloni, Humberto L.

• functionalism
• concinnitas
• architectural metaphor
• green design
• morphology
• nature
• organic analogy

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-11252007-185928

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/35819