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Hill top housing: Reconfiguring the suburban condition

Blandness and paranoia in the architecture of the domestic realm has, to a great degree, been influenced by the current mode of information--the act of viewing this information, its pacing, and its rhythm. Reality is perceived in the information realm, while the experiential, physical "world of things" is unreal. We live in a commodified environment of projections from passively received information.
The project is situated in the suburban condition of Daly City, California, and it is this model of society which is economic and information based that demands consideration. The articulation of the spaces in the Daly City dwelling project attempts to project an image of suburban patterns which have been reconfigured by forces of topography, perception and the physical body, information, and the automobile. What was once responsive to a narrow range of forces has become intertwined and "flowing" with a kind of momentum in the architectural elements which make the dwelling experience.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/13986
Date January 1995
CreatorsQuan, Peony Letitia
ContributorsWamble, Mark
Source SetsRice University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis, Text
Format62 p., application/pdf

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