Final Thesis book Parts 1-3

The adaptive reuse of oil infrastructure throughout the US is necessitated by the incoming obsolescence of oil in our urban infrastructure and the evolution of electric charging systems, allowing architects to turn to more site oriented community programming to bridge the divide between humanity and nature. Oil architecture makes itself know in the urban scape most prominently through the paved hardscape street grid that allows people to quickly move through the urban ecosystem. The epicenters fueling these petroscapes are the gas stations, precisely sited in placed of high traffic to increase revenue streams. Although with the coming of electric vehicles the transportation automobile oriented hardscape will not e changing, these gas stations can become a beacon of reversing the denaturing of the 19th century interjection by corporatist petrocrats.