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Christian Gluvna

Christian Gluvna

Cincinnati, OH, US

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Interior of Trailhead Pavilion
Interior of Trailhead Pavilion
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The Post-Industrial Reconstructed

In the Post-Industrial Landscape of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Industrial Structures and Infrastructure no long serve as the city’s economic engine in which to sustain itself. Many of them are abandoned or underutilized and are left to decay or to be forgotten in forsaken former Industrial Zones. While they can no longer serve their original industrial purpose, they can be torn down, recycled and/or reclaimed for newer construction. Instead of the destruction of salvaged structural components into another state, such as melting down steel or shredding wood, why not reuse the structural components to create a new architecture? Contemporary construction and manufacturing methods can extend a component’s end state in order to keep the same intension of the material or structural to serve a renewed architectonic purpose. 

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Milwaukee, WI, US
My Role: Individual Thesis Project
Additional Credits: Committee Chair: Gil Snyder
Committee Members: Kyle Reynolds and Nikole Bauchard

 
Exterior of Trailhead Pavilion
Exterior of Trailhead Pavilion