A proposal for the future expansion of the Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Abstract
This proposal for the future expansion of the Washington University Medical Center was prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. All of the design work was completed as an independent project in my last semester of study in the spring of 1982. Since that time I have written a text and organized the drawings, adding some diagrams, to form this pamphlet. The proposal is as much a study in urban design as institutional design, for it is my thesis that the future form that the Center will take should be derived from its uniquely urban characteristics. Just as the quadrangle spaces of the Washington University Hilltop Campus serve to compose and integrate various academic departments and schools into an understandable and identifiable single institution, so should the city streets in the Medical Center area serve this complex of teaching, research, and medical facilities. In this vein, my attention focuses as much on the spaces in between the buildings as on the buildings themselves. Nevertheless, I have tried to be as detailed as possible regarding the nature of proposed buildings, showing their volumetric massing, suggesting possible functions, even showing elevation details. I believe this level of specificity to be necessary in order to convey the quality of the spaces being proposed. My intention was not only to suggest an organizational scheme, an underlying structure, which could serve the Center as it develops; but also to indicate some of the architectural potentialities of this locality.
Committee Chair
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Committee Members
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Degree
Master of Architecture (MArch)
Author's Department
Graduate School of Architecture
Document Type
Restricted Thesis
Date of Award
12-1-1982
Language
English (en)
Recommended Citation
Gass., Mary Henderson, "A proposal for the future expansion of the Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri" (1982). Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Theses & Dissertations. 35.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/samfox_arch_etds/35
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