The role of storage in architecture is a recurring theme that has evolved from its cyclical agrarian practices of preservation, a necessary linear step in industrial production, to post-Fordist economies with centers of flexible capital. The emergence of storage facilities, as an urban typology, are indicative of a complex but adaptive global network of supply chains at work. At the same time, they are inextricably linked to fulfill suburbia’s consumption demands and prepare their over accumulation of goods consumed. Technologies of robotic automation, climate control, refrigeration, and data management have significantly facilitated these macro-micro urban factors in shaping the landscape of logistics.
While socio-political implications on the spatial organizations and configurations of storage facilities in urbanity can be implied by Easterling and DeLanda, issues relating to domesticity, technology, and the commodification of the body needs more scrutiny in this architectural discourse. This thesis will then investigate and speculate the more comprehensive role that storage facilities will play in future of urbanism.
The thesis will first take an empirical approach that will utilize visual-spatial quantitative methods for analysis and documentary. Research from this analysis will then be projected into a narrative to in order explore possible scenarios or implications that are worth investigating.
The artifacts to be produced throughout this thesis process are GIS spatial analysis mappings, an evolving socio-political entity web, archival and curation of images, and a weekly series of journal entries.
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