Title page for ETD etd-04012004-103418

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

zellweger, jon robert

URN

etd-04012004-103418

Title

The Silver Fraction - A Weathered Inebriation: Plans, Elevations, Sections, Details, Models and Texts for a Brewery and a Biergarten on the bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria, Virginia

Degree

Master of Architecture

Department

Architecture

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Dr. Paul Emmons	Committee Chair
Jaan Holt	Committee Member
Susan Piedmont-Palladino	Committee Member

Keywords

biergarten
geometry
anima mundi
material reciprocity
weathering

Date of Defense

2003-05-23

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

Architecture is an exhaustive act. With the Herculean efforts of the patron, the architect and the builder, a building comes into being. Materials are collected and transformed in order to create a place for Man to dwell. That is, materials occurring in their natural state are transformed by the Hand of Man and thereby enter it His realm. In turn, the Manmade becomes situated in and a part of the natural world. This relationship is a Material Reciprocity. In the Timaeus, a concept of a world soul is outlined in which all elements that compose the physical world (the "ten-thousand things" of the Tao-Te Ching) are endowed with consciousness: the Anima Mundi.

How does architecture become part of Place?

What role does Weathering play in this act?

How does Man's understanding of Weathering's accretions enoble architecture?

Sun

Moon

Earth

BREW

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