Designing in Time: Temporal Urban Installations for Lowell, MA

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Designing in Time: Temporal Urban Installations for Lowell, MA

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2020

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title: Designing in Time: Temporal Urban Installations for Lowell, MA

creator: Sherese E. Rogers

subject: Architecture and time; Architecture and society; Public spaces; Footbridges, Massachusetts, Lowell, Designs and plans

description: Many public spaces have a limited time of use, be it daily, weekly or seasonally. This makes it so these sites are not used to their full potential and unable to continuously provide for community engagement. This hinders the socialization of the groups that these spaces serve. The recognition of the temporal nature of spaces and how they cycle through changes is the key to developing spaces that enable social engagement. Based on the culture and methods of event architecture that already exist in the city of Lowell, MA this project expands upon those conditions to create a changing permanent space. Developing a space made for participation means that community members can gain a lot from the space. Spaces canadapt to the needs of the current users and be altered to suitfuture users as time moves on. While this Thesis focuses on using the impact of time on a design the end goal is a better understanding of what can be used to build up people and their communication with each other. Bringing activity successful events from downtown to this more remote site.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2020

type: Thesis

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language: eng

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