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In Search Of The Missing Place

Solène Thierry

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My research thesis is a search for a place to be, a place that would make the city an easier place to live and experience, when we are either constantly surrounded by a tumultuous public or isolated at home. My search has led me to define a place that could provide simultaneously Space and Time to bridge what is missing in both the public and the private. What is there left, not linked to commerce, not activity related, with no ownership and no disturbance? This place that this thesis project looked for should provide a familiar feeling of home and safety, when you need a break or rest, and should compare to the basic need of human interaction with one of a shelter. It has been a journey to research and try to create something that can be somewhere and everywhere, a place that one need not to look for but can stumble on at every corner. A place that acts as a welcoming sign. A search for the in-between place, an oasis in the city.

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My research thesis is a search for a place to be, a place that would make the city an easier place to live and experience, when we are either constantly surrounded by a tumultuous public or isolated at home. My search has led me to define a place that could provide simultaneously Space and Time to bridge what is missing in both the public and the private. What is there left, not linked to commerce, not activity related, with no ownership and no disturbance? This place that this thesis project looked for should provide a familiar feeling of home and safety, when you need a break or rest, and should compare to the basic need of human interaction with one of a shelter. It has been a journey to research and try to create something that can be somewhere and everywhere, a place that one need not to look for but can stumble on at every corner. A place that acts as a welcoming sign. A search for the in-between place, an oasis in the city.

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My research thesis is a search for a place to be, a place that would make the city an easier place to live and experience, when we are either constantly surrounded by a tumultuous public or isolated at home. My search has led me to define a place that could provide simultaneously Space and Time to bridge what is missing in both the public and the private. What is there left, not linked to commerce, not activity related, with no ownership and no disturbance? This place that this thesis project looked for should provide a familiar feeling of home and safety, when you need a break or rest, and should compare to the basic need of human interaction with one of a shelter. It has been a journey to research and try to create something that can be somewhere and everywhere, a place that one need not to look for but can stumble on at every corner. A place that acts as a welcoming sign. A search for the in-between place, an oasis in the city.

Key concepts: Feeling, Sense of place, Rest (music), Space (punctuation), Public space, Sign (mathematics), Public place, Bridge (graph theory)

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