University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Theses (Historic Preservation) Graduate Program in Historic Preservation 2015 Radical Preservation: The Transformation of a Vacant Philadelphia School to Address Contextual Urban Opportunities Nathaniel Hammitt University of Pennsylvania Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses Part of the Education Policy Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons Hammitt, Nathaniel, "Radical Preservation: The Transformation of a Vacant Philadelphia School to Address Contextual Urban Opportunities" (2015). Theses (Historic Preservation). 572. https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/572 Suggested Citation: Hammitt, Nathaniel (2015). Radical Preservation: The Transformation of a Vacant Philadelphia School to Address Contextual Urban Opportunities. (Masters Thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/572 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Radical Preservation: The Transformation of a Vacant Philadelphia School to Address Contextual Urban Opportunities Abstract History and structure are traditionally seen as barriers: blockades between zones of occupation. But in fact both melt and dissolve even as they are formed. Structure and history are not blockades, rather thresholds-- themselves fully occupiable. This thesis is the transformation of a Philadelphia