A Modest Proposal for the Reclamation of Wasted Infrastructural Landscapes to Benefit Future Public Highway Urbanization

Darling, Jimmy

Savannah, Georgia: Savannah College of Art and Design

2017-11

Thesis (M.Arch.) -- Architecture

Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Architecture

Bibliography: pages 87-89

"This thesis serves as an investigation into the potential of satire as a tool for creating dialogue and critical discourse within the field of architecture to criticize and comment on illogical situations with an emphasis on irony, exaggeration, and absurdity. Highway interchanges are the prime focus of satire in this thesis due to their current wasted nature and the illogical approach to hyper-rationalize highway design. A formula for reclamation drives the new highway developments with a focus on occupation and densification, ultimately leading to a new highway urbanism."

Keywords: highway, wastelands, architecture, satire, absurdity, drive-in theater, prison

CHAIR: Singeisen, Scott R.

Madson, Ryan

San Miguel, Miguel

English

Architecture

Text

PDF : 90 pages, color illustrations, maps

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