Reclaiming Intentional Transparency in Urban Dwelling

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Reclaiming Intentional Transparency in Urban Dwelling

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2019

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title: Reclaiming Intentional Transparency in Urban Dwelling

creator: Jakob Hyde

subject: Transparency in architecture; Architecture, Human factors; Glass contruction; Apartment houses, Massachusetts, Boston, Designs and plans

description: Research suggests that to be seen isequally as powerful as our desire to seeothers in the architecture of the home. Tomitigate that desire, we’ve used transparentsurfaces to create more connected dwellingnot only in its context, but with its fellowoccupants. The problem is: ‘transparency’as we’ve come to define it has limited us inour understanding of what a truly intimatedwelling condition could be. The sea of allglass apartment towers as islands in the cityare a symptom of our inability to think of howtransparency can be expressed differently.It could exist beyond one material, andbeyond one singular, uniform experience.This thesis aims to explore how we canreclaim the transparent powers we allocateto glaring, flat, one-dimensional planes backfor three dimensional space. It proposes anexpanded definition of what transparencycould be, and offers a methodology for howto design more engaged, intimate dwellingin cities moving forward.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2019

type: Thesis

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