made in thin air: Positioning the sharing economy within architecture to establish a new flexible typology of building

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made in thin air: Positioning the sharing economy within architecture to establish a new flexible typology of building

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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title: made in thin air: Positioning the sharing economy within architecture to establish a new flexible typology of building

creator: Rachael Anne Blanchard

subject: Apartments, New York, New York, Designs and plans; Buildings, Remodeling for other use; Business enterprises, Technological innovations; Flexible structures; Wentworth Design Excellence Award winner (2017)

description: On varying fragmented platforms, we are sharing rides to the grocery store, traveling the world, home to home, utilizing leftover spaces in the city for our weekend pop-up shop, and taking a break in a third space. The sharing economy is opening the door for a new approach to the design of building typologies and systems. How do we play into the sharing economy and see it as a market for a 'soft' strategic system and new typologies of building to develop and change the way we spatialize housing? "Design your world right. If you don't, it will be designed for you"; my interest lies in the opportunity for the sharing culture to establish a new platform of building that allows for max customization, the most unique and optimized aggregation of spaces, and a solution to the turmoil the culture has had on housing stock, issues of ownership, privacy, city tax and zoning discrepancies. Through occupying and utilizing the air above existing buildings to create rentable and shareable spaces, I will be able to give the base stability with stabilized rents and occupants, build above the existing building to optimize every inch of space and fulfill a 24-7 typology reacting to the needs and evolution of the sharing economy.

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

date: 2017

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: eng

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