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This thesis is about the making of places by proposing a community of parts. My vision is to celebrate individual elements while giving a sense of order and a sense of whole. Connections are shaped by functional and structural concerns. The pieces form a place where the community of building parts is reflective of the community of school. The search for an architecture whose order is not dominated by simplistic hierarchy, but through the act of layering spaces and the repetition of structure, has been my greatest challenge. I believe a building with structural harmony will help bring a sense of balance to those who use it. / Master of Architecture

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: p. 105-111. / This thesis looks at the need for privacy in the general instructional areas of an elementary school, with the role of the architect in mind. Taking off from the open-plan school, the most recent trend in educational architecture, a case is made for building a range of private places in the school environment. A review of the literature provides a look at behavioral and environmental research on privacy, as well as background information on educational and school design issues. An investigation of a handful of schools in the Boston area gives a description of how the class spaces are used, and uncovers shortcomings and strengths of the buildings. Finally, this information is used to draw some conclusions about how the physical form can provide the necessary privacy. These conclusions are interpreted into design ideas. In focusing on the issue of privacy, several other peripheral issues such a s flexibility and educational philosophy are dealt with. Enclosure and access, issues that bear directly on privacy are discussed. It is concluded that more enclosure than has been provided in open-plan schools is needed on the grounds that more enclosure supports rather than inhibits the activities taking place in a school. / by Philip Pipal. / M.Arch.

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Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Bibliography: leaf 26. / by Dennis J. Fogarty. / M.Arch.

On the most simple level the projects presented here are intended to fulfill the requirements of a kindergarten. At the next level they represent an investigation into the roles of order in design. In these projects I have chosen to deal with four orders inherent to architecture. The most basic is the order of material, fundamental and inescapable. Linked to this is the order of geometry, which must be sympathetic to the order of material, but goes further in establishing an overall pattern. Giving additional meaning to the overall pattern is the hierarchical order of the spaces. Finally, the social order animates the hierarchy with the abstract notions of the individual and collective. The core of this thesis lies in the integration of these orders into a coherent system, a deep structure adaptable to a variety of conditions. This deep structure gathers the orders, allowing for the necessary freedom while giving the equally indispensable restraint. The system provides a vehicle, an operational method from which one may approach each new circumstance. The following pages present the physical manifestations of this deep structure at several scales. From the realm of the site to the geometry of small objects the single overriding structure gives order, bringing together disparate elements into comprehensible wholes, intensifying the experience and ultimately infusing the whole with a spirit, architecture. / Master of Architecture

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