Obsolescence and Renewal: Transformation of Post War Concrete Buildings

dc.contributor.advisorGardner, Amyen_US
dc.contributor.authorJohnston, Kara Maryen_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.accessioned2016-06-23T05:31:42Z
dc.date.available2016-06-23T05:31:42Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I investigate issues of post-war concrete buildings and how we can both add value and make adaptable what we have traditionally defined as not valuable and not adaptable. 55% of United States’ commercial building stock was built between the years of 1960 and 1980, leaving 36 billion square feet of building material to be adaptively reused or at the bottom of a landfill. Currently, our culture does not value many character defining features of these buildings making the preservation of these buildings difficult, especially at this 50 year critical moment of both the attribution of a “historic” status and time when major renovation of these buildings needs to occur. How can architects add value to a building type, sometimes called “brutalist”, that building culture currently under values and thinks is “obsolete”? I tested this hypothesis using the James Forrestal Building in Washington D.C. After close study of the obsolescence, value,history and existing conditions, I propose a design that adds value to Southwest Washington D.C. and may serve as an example for post-war renewal around the country.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2QJ5K
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18463
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSustainabilityen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledDesignen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledadaptive reuseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledadded valueen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledconcreteen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpost waren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledurban renewalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWashington D.C.en_US
dc.titleObsolescence and Renewal: Transformation of Post War Concrete Buildingsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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