An Urban Edge for Innovation & Reservation: create a figurative stage for students to perform their lives

The architect, as a coordinator of complex conditions and different disciplines, has a role in the development of the master plan for the entire site, balancing technical innovation with appreciation for cultural inheritance. This thesis attempts to explore approaches to design decision making, as a response to a project's site, its history, and the larger cultural context. The above issues are investigated through the design of a multipurpose building at the east end of the Drillfield on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. The building will form a "stage" to accommodate the daily life of the campus. In addition, the proposal was conceived to: a. emphasize both axial and radial geometric features of the site; b. redefine the edge of the oval Drillfield; c. create magnetic force between the proposed building and the existing War Memorial Chapel; d. translate the idea into tectonics.

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

2010

Author dc:creator

• Wu, Kejia

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Galloway, William U.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Gartner, Howard Scott
• Schnoedt, Heinrich
• Thompson, Steven R.

• center
• campus
• history
• hierarchy
• enclosure
• axis
• porosity
• distance
• symmetry
• plane frame wall

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Dc Identifier Other

etd-12152010-195215

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/36175