Gabrielle Golenda
Under most circumstances, you’ll find yourself waiting to fill your prescription in the basement of some big-name drugstore. Longing for natural light, you may find yourself wondering why. Perhaps for security purposes? Maybe natural light taints whatever is being dispensed? Whatever the reason, it remains an unsolved mystery. One of the ways architects have fashioned…
Within residential buildings, one typically moves through a space in a linear progression from the m ost public to the most private spaces. In other words, the scheme of a site is generally organized from front to back: entrance, public spaces, semi-public spaces, and finally, the most private areas. This sequential journey begins at the front…
Whether a city is launching a plan to reduce fatigue-related driving accidents, or architecture stud ents decide to design and build experiential park bathrooms for their thesis project, rest stops provide a unique opportunity to design spaces where passing through means more than just a quick trip to le toilette. For drivers, hikers, and cyclists alike,…
During the temperance movement in the 1830s, tea houses emerged as the popular alternative to pubs a nd other drinking establishments. Before then, tea had been a luxury enjoyed only by the wealthy. Catering more to ordinary people, many new cafés and coffee houses were opened up to promote the strained refreshment as an alternative to…
Many of the existing buildings and spaces we inhabit are not relevant to the way we live now, as man y of them were designed in pre-Victorian times. Recent architectural reassessment has found that we no longer require isolated spaces squared off for a single use, but on the contrary, we need larger, more flexible spaces…
The airborne capsules that have transported skiers to-and-fro through the alps for a large part of t he last century are likely to play a large part in the future of urban transportation. Cable-drawn aerial transportation doesn’t require a lot of infrastructure or space and is cheaper and quicker to build than ground public transportation. Venturing…
While the practice of drinking tea has a long history in China, the nation’s relatively modern relationship with coffee dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, when China opened to foreign trade and Western missionaries and businessmen brought the bean to treaty ports. Among the industrialized treaty port cities, Shanghai became known as “Paris of the…
The primary role of fences is to keep the outside out and the inside in; however, preventing escape and intrusion is quite a limited take on the role of fences. More interesting is the function of providing a boundary: fences used to indicate edges and planes instead of spaces that are defined by being enclosed.…
Every great western film begins with a wide shot of the open road or an expansive landscape. While t he image of the open road is seminal to American culture, the traditional landscape photo or painting captures what is periphery, what borders the shoulder of the road. A fleeting glance to the side would, more often…