Abstract
dc:description.abstractExploration of the architectural re-purposing of a historic building ruin with the goal of maintaining and emphasizing its current character and state of decay. Simultaneously examining how new interventions can clearly achieve modern expectations of function and enclosure, while allowing the character of the existing structure to be minimally impacted. The intervention in the historic building fabric demonstrates how new materials and construction techniques allow for a distinct contrast between old and new, and how the two can work harmoniously together. Specifically integrates new glued-laminated timber frame structure in contrast to existing concrete walls, testing a general case for the potential power of interventions and adaptive reuse to be a means to a rebirth and retelling of the stories of existing buildings.
Degree
thesis:*- 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
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- McElwaine, Donal Padraig
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Pittman, V. Hunter
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Jones, James R.
- Schnoedt, Heinrich
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- vt_gsexam:8852
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/73553