Constructing a Transient Permanence

A residence hall is a temporary home. Yet, it can be the most impactful campus environment on a student's education and life. From lifelong friendships to retention rates, residence halls affect students as many experience their first opportunity to express their individuality and personal responsibility. No study can conclusively determine that one residence hall type is better than another. Rather, it is a hall's overall gestalt that determines student satisfaction and a positive perception of community. The question of my thesis explores how residence hall architecture can anticipate its role as an inspiring distraction to the individual that provokes interaction, engagement, and community as a building type that is not quite transient and not quite permanent.

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

2017

Author dc:creator

• Vasquez, Julia Barbara Ann

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Edge, Kay F.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Pritchett, Christopher
• Doan, Patrick A.

• residence hall
• student housing
• transient
• porosity
• university architecture

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

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

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:11795

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/78261