On the Power of Attainable Architecture Community Engagement and Interaction through Architecture: A New Approach to Architectural Exhibitions

This thesis explores the potential of architecture exhibitions as a medium to make architecture more accessible and relevant to the public. Drawing inspiration from an article titled 6 Small Scale Projects with Large Social Impact , it highlights the significance of small-scale architectural interventions that foster social responsibility, public engagement, and sustainability. The prevalent architectural elitism often overlooks attainable, small-scale architecture, which advocates for a broader appreciation of architecture, including the everyday built environments that shape our communities and everyday lives. The thesis proposes a new approach to architecture exhibitions emphasizing authentic immersion and engagement. It introduces a unique 1:1 experience where visitors can understand and appreciate architecture as it is utilized in its original context. This approach addresses the limitations of traditional architecture exhibitions, which often fail to convey the physical experience of being in the space, the tactile qualities of the materials, the context of the building\u27s surroundings, and the social and cultural significance of the architecture within its community. To address this issue, the thesis presents six case studies of architectural projects that have had a significant social impact on their respective communities. These projects are showcased in an exhibition format, including 1:1 replicas, contextual understanding, live activities, interactive touchpoints, and educational workshops. The exhibition strategies aim to recreate the built environment and the living culture that surrounds and interacts with it. The case studies include the Center for Women in Masai Village, The Garden Library for Refugees and Migrant Workers, The Green Embassy, Story Pod Library, Za\u27atari Classroom, and Tea, Chocolate, Coffee Pavilion. Each project is presented in a way that allows visitors to experience the architecture in the same way as the community using the original architecture, thereby providing a deeper understanding of the architecture\u27s social context. In conclusion, my thesis underscores the crucial role of embracing a different role of architecture in addressing the needs of people. It highlights how, far from elitist concerns, architecture can be a powerful catalyst for positive societal change. By embracing the cultural nuances and economic conditions of diverse communities, creating typologies that cater to their unique needs, empowering marginalized groups, bridging divides, and contributing to sustainability, architecture can truly make a difference in society

Resurrection

In Sensory Design by Author Joy Monice Malnar, she describes 1.The perception of a physical construct. 2. Assessment of its individual composition in relation to a larger characteristic pattern. 3. Memories of prior personal and cultural experiences all play a part in conditioning ones perception and the totality of these factors can be described as a spatio-sensory construct. The experience of an area built on the foundation of a rich cultural history should be always be dynamic whether to a visitor or resident. But what do you call a place where none of this is present? Today, Sweet Auburn Avenue is not nearly as sweet as it used to be. What once used to be a lively, dynamic, prosperous area is now suffering from economic decline, increased crime, and abandonment due to lack of financial investment. Socially the neighborhood has not recovered from the physical division of the I75/85 freeway which was constructed in 1952. In the span of 16 years (1976 - 1992) Sweet Auburn went from being designated as a National Historic Landmark to recognized as one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.* The area suffers from lack of social gathering spaces which is a symptom of the existing zoning and programmatic distribution throughout the site. The buildings are nearly all commercial with very little residential housing. This creates an area that makes everyone a visitor as opposed to a place where people stay and dwell. Abandoned and neglected lots and buildings encourage crime and invites the homeless to search for shelter. Symbolically the site does not reflect the life message of unity promoted by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This unfortunate disconnect is amplified with the King Memorial and burial sites and the King Birth home being apart of this neighborhood. The condition of the rest of the neighborhood does not represent it’s rich history nor give due diligence to Dr. King and his vision. Revitalizing this area without the traditional means of gentrification will be an additional challenge this thesis looks to overcome while producing an area that connects people with a spatio-sensory construct that overcomes the division

ABQ Free Press, September 7, 2016

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Chocolate heaven: productive consumption and corporate power in the recreational landscapes of Cadbury, Bournville and Hershey, Pennsylvania in the early twentieth century

Designer, poet and socialist William Morris, for whom gardens and flowers embodied ideals of beauty and morality, believed that gardening could redeem working as well as private lives. In his polemic ‘The Factory as it Might Be’, published in Justice in 1884, Morris imagined a ‘not for profit’ industrial utopia where workers on a four-hour day would ‘delight in the most innocent and pleasant’ of occupations - gardening in the factory grounds.1 Allotments or ‘community gardens’ 2 provided in the workplace to encourage temperance, good health and sound domestic economies, had been common in the industrial landscape from the early nineteenth century. By the early twentieth, corporate leaders, motivated by similar ideals as Morris, but seeking to profit by them, provided increasingly sophisticated gardens and parks for their employees.3 Attractive factories came to be signifiers for burgeoning consumer goods companies as they exploited the associations of natural beauty and healthy environments to present their products as healthy, wholesome and hygienic. The packaged foods industry had a particular need to promote these attributes, notably the chocolate companies Cadbury at Bournville in the UK, and Hershey in the USA, where attractive landscapes and extensive recreational facilities became decisive factors in shaping their reputations as model factories, or industrial utopias, and in their commercial success. This article builds on emerging research into the history and cultures of corporate recreational landscapes in Britain and the United States, 4 in discussing the alternative landscaping and recreation strategies of the chocolate manufacturers Cadbury at Bournville in the UK and Hershey in Pennsylvannia, USA in the first three decades of the twentieth century. While I have discussed the Cadbury landscapes in previous publications, I mention the company town of Hershey only in passing, because my published research to date has focused on a type of corporate recreation ground that was not the park of an industrial town or village. 5 However, a comparison of the Cadbury factory parks that became models for corporate landscaping until well into the twentieth century, and Hersheypark which was atypical within corporate landscape typologies, reveal new insights into corporate landscaping practices as industry engaged in negotiating the emerging social democratic age of mass consumption, mass leisure and mass media. This comparison also contributes to the limited scholarship that analyses dialogues between European and American Progressivism in 2 the early twentieth century era of social and urban reform when the United States initially took ideas from Europe and then developed them in alternative ways

Spartan Daily, February 11, 2003

Volume 120, Issue 13https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9809/thumbnail.jp

Transplantar : los frutos de sus labores Transplant : fruit of their labor.

This thesis will describe my body of work both formally and conceptually and accompanies my thesis exhibition. In the Introduction section, I will discuss my influences and the forms that I am exploring in creating this body of work and the experience that provided me with first-hand knowledge that pertains to immigrants. In Methods and Materials, I will discuss the materials that I used, glass, ceramics and metal. I will separate the glass and ceramics in two categories as each material was handled differently. I will also touch on the metal frame that is utilized to suspend the forms. In Concept and Artistic Influences, I will discuss the concept for this body of work, my experiences that contributed to the work, and I will explain in chronological order the individual sculptures, as well as touch on my artistic influences that informed my work. In the Conclusion, portion I will discuss how my experience in the graduate program has influenced my work and the direction I see myself taking artistically in the future