TROY, NY
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

The thesis was an investigation into the relationship between architecture and filth in an urban setting. Filth is understood on many different levels in society: dirt, bodily grime, domestic and industrial waste, smut, obscenity, indecency and more. All are considered the abject of society, that which we try to hide or suppress, so as to avoid violating a set system of order.

Through the program of car wash and use of a former industrial shipping zone turned brownfield as a site, the thesis poses the question:

Can architecture and filth coexist in an urban setting?