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Viewed the Thesis/Dissertation in Its Final Electronic Format and Certify That It Is an Accurate Copy of the Document Reviewed and Approved by the Committee U UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Date: May 22, 2009 I, Donald Mouch , hereby submit this original work as part of the requirements for the degree of: Master in Architecture It is entitled: Magnifying the Interstice: exploring the dialogue between architecture's in-betweens Student Signature: Donald Mouch This work and its defense approved by: Committee Chair: John Hancock G. Thomas Bible Approval of the electronic document: I have reviewed the Thesis/Dissertation in its final electronic format and certify that it is an accurate copy of the document reviewed and approved by the committee. Committee Chair signature: John Hancock Magnifying the Interstice: exploring the dialogue between architecture’s in-betweens May 22, 2009 A thesis submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of: Master of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Interior Design of the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning by Donald Mouch Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Cincinnati, 2007 Committee Chairs: Professor John Hancock Professor G. Thomas Bible thesisabstract 1 • Donald Mouch, Analytic, 2008 The interstice is frequently disregarded as architecture’s remnant in-between space. Yet magnifying this zone of transition provides its own dialogue for spatial, experiential, and social interactions. The interstice can investigate architecture’s transitional spaces via form, time, site, and body. At the forefront of the interstitial is the relationship of form: interactions between solid and solid, and solid and void. Voids grown out of the relationships between neighboring solids carry the potential to be experienced as unique zones of transition. This thesis, then, explores breaking down a solid form so as to accentuate the interstitial voids as transitory experiences in our constant movement through architecture. Time also provides architecture with a unique opportunity to accentuate its interstice as the transition from old to new, or from night to day. Rather than simply existing as a line of inconsistency, the interstice provides a space, a zone at which time’s transitions become manifest. Another zone of transition arises between building and site. The transition from street to building should not exist as a single doorway, but rather as a progression through an extended series of spatial experiences. Finally, the interstice engages the body through sensorial change. Architecture has the potential to awaken the senses such that design becomes a phenomenological experience expressing meaning and generating a vivid sensory experience through its magnification. The intention of this thesis is to uncover and stress the importance of architecture’s leftover interstitial spaces. The energy present at the convergence of contrasting entities deserves spatial amplification and recognition. Within a mixed-use project designed for 5th and Elm in downtown Cincinnati, this thesis project emphasizes an exploration of architecture’s common interstices, the hallway, staircase, and threshold, resulting in a magnification of these components’ everydayness. iii tablecontents of vi Image Reference viii Chapter 0: Introduction: Defining the Interstice 12 As a Dialogue Chapter 1: Form: The Dialogue Between Solid/Void and Solid/Solid 22 Chapter 2: Time: The Dialogue Between Past/Present and Night/Day 36 Chapter 3: Site: The Convergence of Spatial Layers in an Urban Fabric 50 Chapter 4: Body: The Sequential Phenomena Associated with 60 Movement and the Senses Chapter 5: Site Description and Analysis 72 Chapter 6: Design Intention 80 Chapter 7: Bibliography 90 vii featuredimages viii Introduction 1. Lederberg, Dov. “Dialogue #8,” Dialogues & Anti-Logues – 2004/09, http://www.art.net/%7Evision/dov2J.html. Accessed 24 April 2009. 2. “Circulation & Movement.” Diagram provided by author. 3. “Functional Duality.” Diagram provided by author. 4. “Simple Complexity.” Diagram provided by author. 5. “Passive ‘Parallelism.” Diagram provided by author. 6. Woods, Lebbeus. “T-Knot,” T-Knot Chengdhu 2007, http://lebbeuswoods.net/. Accessed 24 April 2009. 7. Woods, Lebbeus. “Berlin Free-Zone 3-2.” New York Times, “An Architect Unshackled by Limits of Real World,” Nicolai Ouroussoff, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/design/25wood.html. Accessed 24 April 2009. 8. “Distorting Geometry.” Diagrams provided by author. Chapter 1: Form 1. Brychtova, Jaroslava et al. Spaces II, 1991-92. Image provided by author. 2. “Solid/Void.” Diagram provided by author. 3. “Solid/Solid.” Diagram provided by author. 4. “Smooth/Striated.” Image provided by author. 5. Eisenman Architects. “Guardiola House, 1988: Trace Diagrams.” Peter Eisenman, Written into the Void, 145. 6. Swiss Alps, Gimmelwald. Personal photograph by author. 31 July 2008. 7. Mangwanani. “Mid-Atlantic Range,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mid_Atlantic_Ridge.jpg. Accessed 19 May 2009. 8. “Simmons Hall, MIT.” Image provided by Mary Carroll-Coelho. 9. “Simmons Hall, MIT.” Image provided by Mary Carroll-Coelho. 10. “Solid/Void Relationship.” Diagram provided by author. 11. Paul Warchol Photography. “Simmons Hall, MIT.” Hilary French, New Urban Housing, 114. 12. Lh1h1h7. “Lll_0016,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/liangh/140665766/sizes/l/. Accessed 21 April 2009. 13. Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas. “Jussieu Libraries.” Peter Eisenman, Ten Canonical Buildings 1950-2000, 206. 14. Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas. “Jussieu Libraries.” Peter Eisenman, Ten Canonical Buildings 1950-2000, 214. 15. Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas. “Jussieu Libraries.” Peter Eisenman, Ten Canonical Buildings 1950-2000, 215. 16. Delugan_Meissl. “Town House, Wimbergergasse.” Christian Muhr, “Delugan_Meissl: Housing and Office Block in Vienna,” A+U October 2002, 94. 17. Delugan_Meissl. “Town House, Wimbergergasse.” Hilary French, New Urban Housing, 76. 18. Spiluttini, Margherita. “Town House, Wimbergergasse.” Hilary French, New Urban Housing, 77. 19. Delugan_Meissl. “Town House, Wimbergergasse.” Christian Muhr, “Delugan_Meissl: Housing and Office Block in Vienna,” A+U October 2002, 93. ix Chapter 2: Time 1. Fuss, Adam. “Now!” Personal photograph by author. 21 October 2007. 2. Personal Photograph by author. 27 June 2007. 3. Dali, Salvador. “Montre Molle au Moment,” Easy Art, http://www.easyart.it/posters/Salvador-Dali/Montre-Molle- au-Moment-150203.html. Accessed 23 April 2009. 4. Aaa-fed. “Museo di Castelvecchio – Carlo Scarpa,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/14173242@ N02/2066472850/. Accessed 11 February 2009. 5. Frahm, Klaus. Carlo Scarpa, 76. 6. Frahm, Klaus. Carlo Scarpa, 75. 7. Juergensen, Jochen. “museo di castelvecchio, verona-carlo scarpa,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ jochenjuergensen/2442344817/sizes/l/. Accessed 23 April 2009. 8. Aaa-fed. “Museo di Castelvecchio – Carlo Scarpa,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/14173242@ N02/1810913710/. Accessed 23 April 2009. 9. Cesar, Robert. “Le Fresnoy.” Bernard Tschumi, Le Fresnoy: Architecture In/Between, 98. 10. Tschumi, Bernard. Le Fresnoy: Architecture In/Between, 59. 11. Mauss, Peter. “Le Fresnoy.” Bernard Tschumi, Le Fresnoy: Architecture In/Between, 140-41. 12. Richters, Christian. “Le Fresnoy.” Bernard Tschumi, Le Fresnoy: Architecture In/Between, 135. 13. Douglas. “Chapel of St. Ignatius, Seattle,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglas/297097992/sizes/o/. Accessed 23 April 2009. 14. Elvis F. “Chapel of St. Ignatius,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhke/3076001953/sizes/o/. Accessed 23 April 2009. 15. Elvis F. “Chapel of St. Ignatius by Steven Holl,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhke/3128089896/sizes/o/. Accessed 23 April 2009. 16. Holl, Steven. “Chapel of St. Ignatius,” http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?id=40. Accessed 23 April 2009. Chapter 3: Site 1. Serra, Richard. “Clara Clara.” Personal photograph by the author. 27 August 2008. 2. Buytaert, Dries. “Random Alley,” http://www.buytaert.net/cache/images-vancouver-2004-vancouver-random-alley- 700x700.jpg. Accessed 25 April 2009. 3. Raine. “Marsh-Fence,” peekabooview.blogspot.com/ 2007/11/somenos.html. Accessed 25 April 2009. 4. Koho, Timo. Alvar Aalto - Urban Finland, 49. 5. Träskelin, Rauno. Villa Mairea: Alvar Aalto, 6. 6. Gross, David. “Villa Mairea,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventurepixels/982159106/. Accessed 23 April 2009. 7. Träskelin, Rauno. Villa Mairea: Alvar Aalto, 20. 8. Träskelin, Rauno. Villa Mairea: Alvar Aalto, 26. 9. Perrault, Dominique. Dominique Perrault Architecture, 126. 10. “Horizontal Movement.” Diagram provided by author. 11. Leung, Chirstopher. “Submerged Building,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherleung/3030026286/ sizes/l/. Accessed 23 April 2009. 12. Richters, Christian. “EWHA Womans University.” Robert Ivy, “EWHA Womans University,” Architectural Record, November 2008, 155. x Chapter 4: Body 1. “Metal Mesh.” Personal Photograph by author. 28 August 2008. 2. “Hand.” Diagram provided by author. 3. Bayer, Herbert. The Lonely Metropolitan, https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoebrigley/entry/_silence_and/, Accessed 26 April 2009. 4. Binet, Hélène. Peter Zumthor: Therme Vals. Peter Zumthor, Peter Zumthor: Therme Vals, 161. 5. “The Horizon of Meaning.” Diagram provided by author. 6. Holman, Cal. “Iron Bridge,” Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/cal_holman/3098537269/, Accessed 23 April 2009. 7. Holl, Steven. “Stretto House,” http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?type=houses&id=26&page=1, Accessed 28 April 2009. 8. Diagram
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