[[The]] Forgotten City: an aquatic intervention M. Arch Thesis studio project Heinonen, Kelly Nonrigid structures Industrial buildings Industrial towns Theme towns Deterioration Central business districts Many cities today are facing the decay of their cores, specifically industrial cities are facing this problem now that their industries have left. Today these cores have given way to abandonment and are now in desperate need of revitalization. The site of this project is Biddeford, ME an ocean side old textile industrial city has been deteriorating for years with no attention paid on the core of the city, the area that holds all the cities potential. This is a bold intervention both architecturally and programmatically with the intention of attracting masses to the forgotten mill community. These bold gestures aim at meshing the old and the new architecturally, programmatically and structurally incorporating the old buildings into a new more exciting and vibrant environment. Creating a place that becomes an attraction not just a passageway as it is today. An octopus is an intelligent and strong animal that is known and admired for the way it structures its self. Researchers are still trying to understand how the arms are able to be so flexible and unstructured yet very rigid and able to support its self. So in keeping with the theme of marine science the project take a bold approach to reviving the mill area in mimicking the octopus’s structural movement of expanding and contracting along with its adaptable skin. School of Architecture. (Troy NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007) 2007-05 Images Digital Jpeg2000 Biddeford, Maine, USA Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
[[The]] Forgotten City: an aquatic intervention
M. Arch Thesis studio project
Heinonen, Kelly
Nonrigid structures
Industrial buildings
Industrial towns
Theme towns
Deterioration
Central business districts
Many cities today are facing the decay of their cores, specifically industrial cities are facing this problem now that their industries have left. Today these cores have given way to abandonment and are now in desperate need of revitalization. The site of this project is Biddeford, ME an ocean side old textile industrial city has been deteriorating for years with no attention paid on the core of the city, the area that holds all the cities potential. This is a bold intervention both architecturally and programmatically with the intention of attracting masses to the forgotten mill community. These bold gestures aim at meshing the old and the new architecturally, programmatically and structurally incorporating the old buildings into a new more exciting and vibrant environment. Creating a place that becomes an attraction not just a passageway as it is today. An octopus is an intelligent and strong animal that is known and admired for the way it structures its self. Researchers are still trying to understand how the arms are able to be so flexible and unstructured yet very rigid and able to support its self. So in keeping with the theme of marine science the project take a bold approach to reviving the mill area in mimicking the octopus’s structural movement of expanding and contracting along with its adaptable skin.
School of Architecture. (Troy NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007)
2007-05
Images
Digital
Jpeg2000
Biddeford, Maine, USA
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY