Global ETD Search

1	Liminal Sites/ Designing Marginal Space in Broadmeadows Bratoeva, Chaya, chayab@tpg.com.au January 2009 (has links) Liminal sites are those on the verge of change, between boundaries and in a temporary state of ambiguity. Throughout my practice as an architect I was aware of the existence of such spaces. I was also aware that they were rarely the product of my intentional design effort. Because of that to me these spaces were precious. They represent moments in space of ambiguous function and questionable beauty but also moments I sought out everyday. This masters research is my way of refocusing my practice to engage with these types of spaces. The sense that this search will take me outside of my understanding of architecture lead me to chose to undertake it as a masters in landscape architecture. My main research question is: How can a designer construct a liminal site? The research concentrates on four central themes - development of a definition of the term liminal liminal site public private driving car park suburban user/designer narrative narrative sequence design narratives linear sequence concurrent sequence recurrent sequence