Architecture is the medium through which we live our lives which grows, evolves, and adapts as dynamically as the living population who inhabits it.
Because it structures the spaces we learn how to live within and outside of, architecture creates the context of our memories. It also serves as the physicality of the environment that we shape to meet our current needs, desires, and hopes for the future. These dynamics result in our symbiotic relationship with architecture that inescapably affects who we are, where we have come from, and who we will grow to be.
Pittsburgh has historically been defined by its rivers in relation to industry usage. Now that this historic usage has become defunct, the city is realizing that the rivers need a new purpose and a new place in the identity of Pittsburgh. Through architectural intervention, this repurposing of the rivers and reinvention of their image within the city and the cognitive maps of its inhabitants can be achieved. By infusing the design intervention with the current values and projected future goals of the architecture's inhabitants, the dynamics of the symbiotic relationship are engaged. After the inhabitants take affect on their built environment, their values are instilled in the resultant creation, which will in turn affect both contemporary inhabitants of the city as well as future generations. The cycle continues when the architecture encourages inverse adaptation by the inhabitants to progress in the future.
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