An Architecture of Verticality

Chuhadia, Shubham

An Architecture of Verticality

dc.contributor.author	Chuhadia, Shubham	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Schnoedt, Heinrich	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Jones, Kevin William	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Jones, James R.	en
dc.contributor.department	Architecture	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-06-29T08:01:11Z	en
dc.date.available	2018-06-29T08:01:11Z	en
dc.date.issued	2018-06-28	en
dc.description.abstract	One of the chief characteristics of a high-rise building is its verticality. However, it seems that most high-rise buildings do not directly pursue the architecture of verticality. Moreover, verticality is rarely perceived within this building type. This thesis investigates the potential of verticality in a residential high-rise building. Together with the aspect of verticality, the thesis pursues an idea that even in a residential high-rise, the sense of community that typically exists in low-rise settlements on the ground and other connections to the outside can be at least partially preserved. In summary, the proposal aims the architecture to celebrate the verticality of the high-rise as a part of the skyline, expressing the verticality through its facade. For the dwellers, sky gardens offer a sense of verticality with constructed views connecting the outside world. Six two-story-apartments adjoin the sky garden with a double height living room suggesting the apartments in a high rise shouldn't be flats. This double height vertical space extends into the balcony spaces suggesting a local verticality at the apartment level.	en
dc.description.degree	Master of Architecture	en
dc.format.medium	ETD	en
dc.identifier.other	vt_gsexam:16224	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83803	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Verticality	en
dc.subject	High-rise	en
dc.subject	Mumbai	en
dc.subject	India	en
dc.title	An Architecture of Verticality	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Architecture	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Architecture	en