(Re)Connecting Communities: Network of Visual & Built Connections

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(Re)Connecting Communities: Network of Visual & Built Connections

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 2021

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title: (Re)Connecting Communities: Network of Visual & Built Connections

creator: Hannah Clark

subject: Public housing, Social aspects; Neighborhoods; Public spaces; Apartment houses, Massachusetts, Boston, Designs and plans

description: [RE]Connecting Communities studies how public and affordable housing is stigmatized and disconnected to society and to each other. This causes residents to feel isolated and unwanted. Re-integrating affordable and public housing developments by using physical and visual connections is one element that helps elevate the quality of life for the residents within the community. These connections are created through micro-neighborhoods and focusing on four elements: courtyards, communal spaces, entry sequence, and connecting to surrounding context. Each element focuses back to visual and physical connections to create that sense of community and security no matter where someone is within the site. Implementing gathering spacing throughout the site and connecting micro-neighborhoods, programs, and gathering spaces to each other help form a network within itself and encourages residents and the larger community to not only go to the site but go through it. Reaching these connections out towards the surrounding context stimulates activity and interaction.

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

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date: 2021

type: Thesis

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