PRECIS
“Collocated Architecture” is a strategy for approaching abandoned buildings that aims to balance factors of existing material degradation, historical characteristics, site ruins and scale with contemporary materials, tectonic connections and site awareness by means of juxtaposition. The methodology uses compare and contrast methods to distinguish between precedents that use the ideas of adaptive re-use and precedents that promote the ideas of “Collocated Architecture” to support the proposal of an alternative approach to old buildings. The importance of this approach to abandoned architecture is to stall urban sprawl, and to community pride as an alternative to adaptive re-use, which masks the new interventions behind ideas of historic shells that depletes the visual dynamics of time.
Hypothesis
The methods of dealing with abandoned buildings have been to mask the new interventions behind ideas of historic shells, which then depletes the visual dynamics of time, as done in current adaptive re-use projects; however this thesis wishes to develop the approaches to abandoned buildings by proposing the alternative strategy “Collocated Architecture” that aims to balance factors of existing material degradation, historical characteristics, site ruins and scale with contemporary materials, tectonic connections and site awareness by means of juxtaposition.
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