The strength of weakness: A project on fragmentary monuments

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2001-12

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This investigation addresses architectural design through the framework of fragile architecture, as proposed by Juhani Pallasmaa and Ignasi de Sola Morales. • The Context for this exploration is Austin, Texas on the site of the abandoned Seaholm Power Plant along the shores of the Colorado River. • The Programmatic vehicle used for this project is a Center for Technological, Ecological, and Cultural Education. The purpose of this project is to examine the ways in which architecture impacts localities within the context of globalization. More specifically, this investigation seek s to cast architecture as an anchor to place and in opposition to the disorienting effects and placelessness of the global proto· culture. This project addressed these issues by subverting the monumental husk of the Seaholm Power Plant into a fragile container to the flowering of corporeal presence and physical experience, thus rooting the contemporary architectural design within the collective memory of the city and its inhabitan

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Architecture, Monuments

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