(glancing backwards)

...just dug this up. it's essentially current, minus the lexicon.
-jth


ABSTRACT
original_03.24.2008

This thesis examines the performative aspects of connection by the contamination of boundaries. Through analytical translations of energy use patterns into imageable models, innovations of activity, space, and form can emerge to sponsor an architectural proposal. The exploration of connection and boundaries extends to the analysis of layers of the existing site. Combined, these studies reveal opportunities for a new place that supports the agenda of the new industrial discoveries.

As applied to a selected test case, a new public industrial research facility is proposed within the site of the former Collins Axe Company along the Farmington River in Collinsville, Connecticut. The Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center Research and Prototype Laboratory combines industrial production, scientific research, and experiential education, and serve as an identifiable, didactic locus of the emergent collective action. As a public-private venture of the University of Connecticut, its obligation is to scientific advancement and to the education of the public of critical developments in energy resources that affect their sovereignty, economy, and future.