SOCIAL POROSITY: BUILDING THIRD SPACE IN THE POST INDUSTRIAL CITY
LAWRENCE, MAssachusetts
A THREE PRONGED APPROACH TO THE contemporary COMMONS
A THREE PRONGED APPROACH TO THE contemporary COMMONS
Once a self-sustaining hub of textile production and European immigration to the United States, Lawrence, Massachusetts is now a symptomatic example of the ailing post-industrial city. Vast mill infrastructures call to be reconsidered to meet the city’s contemporary potential and to re-script as a generative means for growth. Today, the community continues to be industrious and largely immigrant, but the built environment of Lawrence no longer meet the needs of its greatest asset—its people. Through a three-pronged interpretation of the historical commons—natural, economic, and educational—the thesis proposes strategies for the collective remediation, reclamation, and reuse of a post-industrial swatch of Lawrence. The thesis provides a framework to host a cooperative web of relations driven by practices of sharing, ultimately embedding third space in the public realm.
THESIS FOR COMPLETION OF BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
Advisors Tao Dufour and Danica Selem
CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART & PLANNING
SPRING 2018
Advisors Tao Dufour and Danica Selem
CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART & PLANNING
SPRING 2018
