Towards understanding a tower: the design of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal

This thesis explores the nature of building in a tower form at the special edge between land and water. Secondly, it pursues a coherent order both formal and ontological based on a circular geometry. This proposition is in the form of a tower/terminal for the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saez, Mario Carlos Cortes
Other Authors: Architecture
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41124
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02132009-172714/