Date of Award
Spring 5-30-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Department
Architecture
First Advisor
Rachely Rotem
Second Advisor
Ijlal Muzaffar
Abstract
This thesis employs public transit to establish regional reclamations of infrastructure, empowering cultural identities through a vernacular that is realized and matured into the capacity of today. The decaying state of our mass transit infrastructure is due to a decline of community ownership and regional identity represented in their architecture.
“Communities” can be considered cities, neighborhoods, towns, or entire regions of States depending on the scale of the infrastructure. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania clearly exhibits the range of this decline. A city that went from being the center of the Pennsylvania Railroad, now is sprinkled with infrastructural shells of the past. These sites now provide an opportunity revitalization of the communities they inhabit.
Recommended Citation
Sponseller, Andrew, "Intimacy in infrastructure" (2020). Masters Theses. 454.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/454
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