Molasses: a_dapper_production

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Molasses: a_dapper_production

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2017

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creator: Carla Isabel Gautier Castro

subject: Architecture and memory; Industrial buildings, Puerto Rico, Guánica, Remodeling for other use; Mixed-use developments, Puerto Rico, Guánica, Designs and plans

description: The spaces we inhabit carry out our mark long after we are gone. Whether in memoriam or with a nostalgic appreciation of the past, these places have a role in history’s continual transformation in its productive life cycle. Moreover, when a site of memory carries an architecture that is very specific to its original function, as was the architecture of a industrial companies, its memory seems to be embedded within its walls. History and memory, as parallel, are dynamic and victims of fragmentation. Therefore, space and memory become fragmented through a series of layers that structure new form of cultural production.The former company town of Ensenada, located in Guánica, Puerto Rico, is now home to a set of ruins that were once the largest sugar mill in the Americas. This project utilizes the memory of the site to propose an alternate co-owned model for the ruin that layers the three major aspects of production: education, agriculture and tourism. This method is then translated into the distribution of program in a way that lets the viewer experience past, present, and future at an unconventional perspective. Furthermore, the project materializes the memory of the ruin by showing the same volume, over and over, at different scales and materiality. In the end, the system of monoculture is reverted by using the memory of the machine to structure the three elements of a successful cooperative production.

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

date: 2017

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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