Manipulating Spaces: Placemaking Through Kinetic Architecture

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Manipulating Spaces: Placemaking Through Kinetic Architecture

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2018

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title: Manipulating Spaces: Placemaking Through Kinetic Architecture

creator: Thorsten Sterbenz

subject: Motion in architecture; Public spaces, Social aspects; Facades; Architecture, Massachusetts, Boston, Designs and plans

description: Increasing technological advancements are becoming a major factor in architectural design and with this power, new exciting and unique environments that promote community and social interaction can be created. Currently, kinetic architecture is being used in a multitude of ways; sustainability purposes, experiences in spatial manipulations, regulation of natural light and for experimentation. However, by introducing moving architectural elements into the urban fabric, socially inept spaces can be improved through the attractiveness of kinetic facades. By implementing kinetic architecture in environments, dead social voids in the urban context can become lively community driven environments where all scales of social occurrences can occur. This thesis explores how a kinetic facade can manipulate space in an environment providing an identity, an experience and a memory to the users passing through the newly design urban context.

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

date: 2018

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

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