Galway Based Thesis Topic
- This topic has 4 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 15 years, 3 months ago by Anonymous.
-
AuthorPosts
-
-
July 16, 2009 at 7:05 pm #710654adminKeymaster
Greeting Colleagues,
Would anyone care to contribute ideas and/ or suggestions they might have for a 5th Year Architectural Degree thesis project based in Galway City? As it stands I’m mulling over:
1. A theatre complex in Fisheries Fields to accommodate Macnas, Druid agus Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe
2. An integrated water sports centre for rowing, kayaking and sailing on the N.U.I.G. campus as per the existing masterplan
3. A marina facility at Galway Docks
4. A study of the ‘in between’ spaces in the N.U.I.G. campus masterplan, with a view to composing an architectural strategy that might bind its disparate elements together
5. A museum dedicated to those impacted by clerical abuse as per the recommendations of the Ryan Report (!)
6. An inhabited bridge linking Menlough with the Moycullen RoadAt this tentative stage these notions vary from the ‘very obvious’ to the ‘bit ridiculous’ and so any input would be gratefully appreciated.
-
July 17, 2009 at 7:57 pm #808644AnonymousInactive
Woah!
My only comment is slow down there….
These are all “projects”, none of them are thesis. Ie they could be the result of, but not the cause of a “thesis” [no4 is the only one that has potential to be the begings of a thesis.]
A thesis is an idea about how architecture should be made, the project (ie the brief/ programme) should only be a way to demonstrate or prove this. -
July 17, 2009 at 10:07 pm #808645AnonymousInactive
Okay, that’s a good point. How would you feel about working to a competition brief, such as that issued by the Galway Harbour Company today for the redevelopment of Galway Docks, as a thesis project?
-
July 18, 2009 at 5:53 pm #808646AnonymousInactive
I’m sure it would be fine, but its the same point. For mine I spliced together a competition brief for one project across town and combined it with a masterplan in a different part of town, however it was done with the purpose of “proving” or demonstrating something about how I though architecture should be made. You can make any brief work as a thesis, I wasn’t dismissing any of suggestions in the first post, but the point is why? What interests you in architecture? light? sound? ecology? contrast? volume? relationship between architecture and literature? cubic rooms? rooms with one window? floor surfaces? architecture and social conscience? And how does “An inhabited bridge linking Menlough with the Moycullen Road” or “A museum dedicated to those impacted by clerical abuse as per the recommendations of the Ryan Report” help demonstrate that.
-
July 23, 2009 at 8:23 pm #808647AnonymousInactive
Thanks for all of that Spoilsport.
Does anyone have a CAD map of Galway City they could Email me?
-
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.