Title page for ETD etd-01112008-171637

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

Hunsaker, Gregory Brent

Author's Email Address

HunsakerDesign@aol.com

URN

etd-01112008-171637

Title

Auspicium Aevum

Degree

Master of Architecture

Department

Architecture

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Holt, Jaan	Committee Chair
Brown, William W.	Committee Member
Ritter, James William	Committee Member

Keywords

Timelessness
Aquarium

Date of Defense

1991-07-24

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

The creation of a place of refuge amid chaos. To
create a place that answers the question, “why are we
here?”
The definition of a place between the sacred and the
profane.
The complexity of the city will foster an oasis: the
serenity of order.
In acknowledgement of complexity, simplify.
After all, architecture is the theatre wherein the drama
of life unfolds.
The city will enter the building, and the building will
never turn its back on the city. The sea will enter the
city through the building, as the city will enter the
sea… Neither is static. This is life of the highest order.
Memory and anticipation will part to yield a
performance of the present.
This proposal is an effort to reintroduce a humanfriendly
scale to an urban edge, embracing the life of
the water bodies, and giving direction, identity, and
thus purpose (to the human, the city and the sea)
through architectural celebration.
The site determined a set of environmental and
planning issues asking for resolution through
architectural intervention. The decision to make an
aquarium derived from the questions asked by the
existing conditions.
An initial subtractive formal treatment of the site (to
bring the river inward during high tide) and the
reconciliation of this with an additive formal language of
the building became a point of departure. The
synthesis of form was to be organized as a linear
progression through a series of experiences delineating
a walk from land to sea.

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