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I.M.B.Y. (in my backyard)
Nichols, Zachary
Advisor:Koester, Robert J.; Dotson, Olon
Date:2022-05
Type:Undergraduate CAP thesis
Degree:Thesis (B. Arch.)
Department:College of Architecture and Planning
Abstract:
As future architects, it is our goal to use the poetry of built space to spark change within our
communities. This must start by understanding the community and the history of existing
neighborhoods. We can use this timeline and moments within as an expression of storytelling to
influence structure and user type. Throughout the respected research areas, this begins to get
depicted through the social discrimination of race, religion, and ethnicity.
Although the United States is one of the most diverse countries in the world, our cities are still
subdivided by the described discriminatory factors. This is due to prior segregation and the
continuation of it through the industrial revolution. As our major cities expanded, the population
grew around it full of life and community; however, as they began to collapse, the groups that
were divided would become neglected leading to areas of abandonment and decay. These issues
impact us today with social and environmental injustices.
The existing community persists within these areas with strong-knit communities partnered
alongside poor economic and social growth. This proposal is to provide a voice and allocated
space for the immediate residents. Giving the local people an opportunity to exhibit their cultural
identity with creation studios, public space, and culinary incubators. The goal behind this is to
influence other developments down the adjacent corridors and into the immediate residential
districts.
As a resident of white decent, it is impossible for me to understand or experience the problems
and discrimination embedded within/against different racial communities, but I believe it is my
duty as a civil servant to recognize the existing issues with provided solutions for future growth.
This proposal idealizes the welfare of the people.
College of Architecture and Planning Undergraduate Theses [1317] Undergraduate theses submitted to the College of Architecture and Planning by Ball State University undergraduate students in partial fulfillment of degree requirements.