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This competition, being an idea competition, presented the chance for us to explore this research for the city of Seattle. For us, this competition was more than a hypothetical design for a specific site, but an understanding of how a public space could act as a catalyst for the Metro area of Seattle, and really start understanding Seattle Center as an urban core.
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I Want to be METROPOLITAN is a research on small scale metropolises, using Boston as a case study to provide a different reading of the city. The study focuses on showing the efforts that the city of Boston has made in order to grow with metropolitan characteristics while remaining at a much smaller scale than cities like New York, London, or Tokyo. The morphology of Boston has been achieved through different metropolitan interventions that occur…
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The catalog is based on the seminar class conducted at Rhode Island School of Design in Fall 2011 and consist of student's analysis, exercise and projects related to TOPOLOGY & TYPOLOGY. The research about Typology and Topology is developing an idea of how a solid mass interacts with void and how the solid can be systematized. Topology is a concept from mathematics concerned with spatial properties that are preserved under continuous deformations…
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I Want to be METROPOLITAN is an ongoing research by PRAUD developed to understand the metropolitan efforts that the city of Boston has made, not only to understand our own setting as designers, but also to provide clues of the potential that the city of Boston can offer. Although there have been many studies that focus on big urban movements and developments of Boston, few studies have been taken that focused on actual urban artifacts. Since the growth…
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