300
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URBAN WILDERNESS
scenario | FOREST scenario | CULTURE
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WATER
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03
_YEAR 25
y
y
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URBAN WILDERNESS
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y
FOREST
phase
scenario |
scenario |
URBAN WILDERNESS
05
_YEAR 100
FOREST
y
y
y
301
and choose to extend or alter directions in which they have been taught. A thesis project is thus reflective and self-critical for both students and the general curriculum at Penn. By individually framing and developing a project through one’s own set of interests, the thesis project also initiates issues that often continue to develop in the future as students embark on professional or academic careers. A thesis thus looks both backward and forward in time and trajectory.
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URBAN WILDERNESS
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FOREST
ye
ye
Advanced I —ARCH 706 Thesis—INTRODUCTION
Advanced I —ARCH 706 Thesis—Trubiano
ADVISOR: Annette Fierro Karen M'Closkey STUDENT: Jacqueline Martinez
Can we develop a method by which the growth of new urban tissue is structured through the decay of the old, to both animate and evolve the urban corpse? Currently, the decay of our human artifacts, this urban entropy, typically gets type cast as signs of degradation (both land and society), blight, or nostalgia. But in fact, it is the natural ecology of urbanity. A latent potential lies embedded within the process of urban entropy. Instead of vilifying and eradicating this aspect, I propose to use these processes as generative sources of urban growth, choreographing the deterioration, prompting an evolution of the architecture instead of an end or a beginning. Working in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, on a silver of land, excluded from the commercial redevelopment masterplan, the project poses a new development gateway to Philadelphia, connecting the Navy Yard, Delaware River, and FDR Park. Arriving at a strategy of an emergent architectural scaffold, the scaffold, both physical and operative, has the bundled agenda of manipulating and subverting the successional process, choreographing the building life cycle evolution, and fostering emergent development and urban wilderness biotopes creating a resilient structure of urbanism generated from process’ of decay.
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ADVANCED I
ADVANCED I
URBAN DETRIVORE_a renegotiation between growth and decay An Emergent Architectural Scaffold Generated from Structured Decay at The Philadelphia Navy Yard