Alexander Gebetsroither
The paradigmatically post-modern character of Los Angeles and its spatial manifestations form the origin for this master's thesis. Starting with the investigation of city phenomena and the particularities of its urban development, the thesis analyzes selected architectures to create a framework that is furthered into a specific, contextual potential, which will be the basis for the urban and architectural project to follow. The thesis draws attention to the historical development of Los Angeles. It deals with past and future developments, with artifacts and potentials of the city. It uses the resources of the city, references real circumstances as well as it uses narrative elements to expand the perception of the City of Los Angeles. The real situation correlates with the potentials of the city. The design project deals with the iconic interchanges, the large-scale freeway-junctions of the city. It questions their role in the public perception and creates a scenario for an appreciation of these spaces that becomes a "museum" for the paradigmatic space of the 20th century – infrastructural space. Following the context of Tinseltown, the design situates itself between emotion and rationality, between clarity and ambiguity, between fiction and reality.
The master thesis I-710/I-105 #more than infrastructure was supervised by Andreas Lechner (Institute of Design and Building Typlology).
