Vieques, Puerto Rico: healing Vieques

Vieques, Puerto Rico: healing Vieques

Ortiz, Keiron

Bunkers

Chemical pollution

Research laboratories

Environmental laboratories

Military buildings

Ecology

School of Architecture 5th year final project publication

For six decades military practices on Vieques Island have caused ecosystems and animal wildlife to become endangered. Heavy bombardments have changed the landscape to ane areas full of immense craters. Chemicals from bombs and artillery are still being found within soils, rivers, and coastal waters. As a result, local residents risk coming in contact with contamination. The restoration of Vieques will take decades, and this thesis proposes to take the first step conceptually and programmatically in this process. In the storage facilities called bunkers, conservation research laboratories will be created to aid in the island’s recovery. This will be the transition piece, which establishes a connection between the dense military bunkers and the outside environment that they are now meant to salvage

School of Architecture. (Troy NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007)

Warriner, Kenneth

Oatman, Michael

Garba, Fareh

Ellinger, Jefferson

2007-05

Electronic thesis: Bachelor of Architecture 5th year final project

English

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