Thesis: Laura Elliot

Transportation has always influenced architecture. Perhaps most directly there is the correlation between transportation and the architecture that serves it, such as stations and garages, but there is also the indirect impact of transit-oriented city planning that governs placement and access to buildings. All buildings, in one way or another, need to consider transportation as part of the design. Nowhere is this more evident than the advent of the personal car, which dictates expansive highways, driveways and garages, minimum parking requirements, and many other pervasive means of determining our built environment. While movement and storage of the car and virtually every typology of architecture must coexist, they are often thought of and planned for separately. It is in this relationship that there is unrealized potential.