Embedded Boundaries
| dc.contributor.author | Bresler, Liana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-18T19:26:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-18T19:26:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06-18T19:26:20Z | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2010 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis is an investigation of landscape as boundary: a study of its formation, inhabitation, and symbolic meaning. The study is situated in a valley located south of Jerusalem’s Old City walls; known as both Gei Ben-Hinnom and Wadi al- Rababa, it is an ethnic, cultural, socioeconomical, and mythological boundary. In the ethnically polarized Jerusalem, valleys often act as boundaries between Jewish and Palestinian populations. For nineteen years an official no-man’s-land divided the Hinnom/Rababa Valley, a result of an armistice agreement between Israel and Jordan. Since the 1967 annexation of East Jerusalem to Israel, the valley has transformed into a boundary between the two populations. Responding to this boundary, the thesis addresses an urgent need for a wastewater treatment facility, proposing new infrastructure as a vehicle to explore the ability of architecture to embody multiple narratives. By documenting built form, geology, hydrology, history, and mythology, the thesis illustrates the Hinnom/Rababa Valley as the space of the in-between, neither east nor west, bridging the urban hilltops with the underworld. The boundary partakes in both and neither sides simultaneously. Building on its multiplicity of meanings – of its ‘stories so far’ – the thesis attempts to re-imagine a new relationship to the ground. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5276 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.pending | false | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Waterloo | en |
| dc.subject | Jerusalem | en |
| dc.subject | contested spaces | en |
| dc.subject | wastewater treatment | en |
| dc.subject | Green Line | en |
| dc.subject | infrastructure | en |
| dc.subject | landscape | en |
| dc.subject | abject | en |
| dc.subject | multiplicity | en |
| dc.subject.program | Architecture | en |
| dc.title | Embedded Boundaries | en |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | en |
| uws-etd.degree | Master of Architecture | en |
| uws-etd.degree.department | School of Architecture | en |
| uws.peerReviewStatus | Unreviewed | en |
| uws.scholarLevel | Graduate | en |
| uws.typeOfResource | Text | en |