Conjuncture in urban design and architecture

Design architecture

Stout, Randall ; Pope, Albert

Rice University

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美国|英语

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【 摘 要 】

A critical issue of contemporary urban design is that of the transformation of ringroad and highway development on the periphery of urban centers into elements of urban connection. There is a search for a generative syntax to bind together the urban fabric and traffic routes as a solution to the problem of the threshold between that which is urban and extra-urban. This search also seeks an architecture which is coherent with infrastructures and for a correspondence between fast traffic roads, urban morphology and the landscape. It is the development of this correspondence and its impact on urban morphology that could potentially translate the current disorientation of cities such as Los Angeles and Houston into a positive urban experience. Using the Galleria Post Oak area of Houston as arena for this thesis, a conjunctive process will compensate for the negative impact of piecemeal development driven by economic and engineering decisions. This project engages components of both the private and public sectors. Proposals are made at the scale of the district, a specific development area, and a generative architectural component