Ziobro, Regan Michel2014-03-142014-03-142010-05-11etd-08232010-110037http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34716I wanted to devote a year of my life toward creating a building and participating in a body of research that was meaningful. My goal proved to be much more complex than originally thought, for meaning itself is ambiguous. Although ambiguous, meaning is not without definition: it is bounded by the contingency of our "cogito" or horizons of experience. And so I argue that if we assign meaning through a function of self reflection, than perhaps a shared experience may transcend the self and reflect community. In an attempt to fertilize community through the built environment, I designed a Charter School on the abandoned 1400 block of Walnut Street in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.In CopyrightOver-the-RhineAmbiguityPhenomenologyThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08232010-110037/