Reclaiming the Fall Zone: Mediating Physical and Cultural Exchange in Richmond, VA
Reclaiming the Fall Zone: Mediating Physical and Cultural Exchange in Richmond, VA
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2016
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Filler, Kenneth Paul
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Noonan, Peter V
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This thesis will address cultural and physical place reclamation, at the
ambiguous intersection of ‘city’ and nature.’ By creating a juxtaposed sequence of
multi-scalar interventions, which challenge the conventional boundaries of
architecture, and landscape architecture; in order to make commonplace a new
dynamic threshold condition in Richmond, Virginia. At its core, this thesis is an
attempt at place-making on a site which has become ‘no place.’
This concept will be manifest via a landscape park on Mayo Island in
Richmond, anchored by a community retreat center, and architectural follies along a
constructed path. The interventions will coincide with value of place in historical
Richmond: an integrated, socially desegregated waterfront hinge; a social nexus of
inherent change, at the point which the river itself changes at the fall line.