The Indistinct Edge: Reconnecting Experience in Nature and Architecture

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dc.contributor.advisorAbrams, Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.authorBender, Matthew Daviden_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-07T05:32:35Z
dc.date.available2016-09-07T05:32:35Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2WF87
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18644
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBlendeden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEdgeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGeorgetownen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWaterfronten_US
dc.titleThe Indistinct Edge: Reconnecting Experience in Nature and Architectureen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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