Designing Hostels: Spaces Promoting Positive Cultural Interaction

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dc.contributor.advisorDraper, Powellen_US
dc.contributor.authorBates, Benjamin Michaelen_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.accessioned2013-07-04T05:34:30Z
dc.date.available2013-07-04T05:34:30Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this architectural thesis is to create a design process diagram that takes into account the cultural and spatial features affecting interactions and apply it to the design of a hostel. The thesis utilizes concepts from sociology, specifically, Georg Simmel's theories regarding objective and subjective culture as well as his five "fundamental qualities of space for communal life," and applies them to the field of architecture taking into account virtual space as a sixth fundamental quality of space. This process can shed light on how to design space within a hostel, enhancing positive cross-cultural interactions by focusing the user's attention on objective cultural expression rather than a subjective cultural one. Site, program, structure, form and building skin parameters were developed using matrices, cross referencing design options against one another and the specific cultural and spatial features selected for analysis.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14319
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCultureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFluidityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHostelen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledObjectiveen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSubjectiveen_US
dc.titleDesigning Hostels: Spaces Promoting Positive Cultural Interactionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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