Bender, Matthew David, author

The Indistinct Edge : Reconnecting Experience in Nature and Architecture / by Matthew David Bender.

College Park, MD : Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, 2016

1 online resource (x, 130 pages)

This thesis explores how architectures sense of place is rooted in the natural environment. The built environment has been constructed to protect and sustain human culture from the weathering of nature. Separating experience from the natural environment removes a sense of place and belonging in the natural and reinforces architectural dominance. This separation distinguishes the natural world as an article of spectacle and gives the human experience an unnatural voyeurship to natural changes. By examining the fusion of architectural and natural edges this thesis analyzes how the human experience can reconnect with a naturalistic sense of place through architecture, blending the finite edge where architecture maintains nature, and adapting buildings to the cycles of the environment. Removing dominance of man-made spaces and replacing them with the cohabitation of the edge between built and natural forms.

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Blended
Edge
Georgetown
Nature
Waterfront

theses.

Abrams, Michael (Michael C.), degree supervisor.

Location: Library main 319939
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