Common Place: collective housing in the bluegrass

This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The housing complex deals with architectureâ s relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The comple...

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Main Author:	Sears, Caleb O'Connor
Other Authors:	Architecture
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Published:	Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:	landscape context housing
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34979 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09082011-172453/

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spelling	ndltd-VTETD-oai-vtechworks.lib.vt.edu-10919-349792020-09-26T05:37:17Z Common Place: collective housing in the bluegrass Sears, Caleb O'Connor Architecture Bryon, Hilary Gartner, Howard Scott Bassett, James C. landscape context housing This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The housing complex deals with architectureâ s relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex deals with place through a connection to the regional built and natural context. By externally revealing programmatic relationships through massing and allowing individual housing units to assert themselves within the collective, the complex becomes an interconnected housing cluster that is neither house nor barn. It instead imparts the image of a small village or settlement, the essence of community. Master of Architecture 2014-03-14T20:45:02Z 2014-03-14T20:45:02Z 2011-07-29 2011-09-08 2011-10-20 2011-10-20 Thesis etd-09082011-172453 http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34979 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09082011-172453/ Sears_CO_T_2011.pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ application/pdf Virginia Tech
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description	This thesis proposes new housing for migrant farm workers outside of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The housing complex deals with architectureâ s relationship to place and community while providing a dignified dwelling, imparting a sense of permanence and home to a constantly moving population. The complex deals with place through a connection to the regional built and natural context. By externally revealing programmatic relationships through massing and allowing individual housing units to assert themselves within the collective, the complex becomes an interconnected housing cluster that is neither house nor barn. It instead imparts the image of a small village or settlement, the essence of community. === Master of Architecture
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Common Place: collective housing in the bluegrass

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