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Brandon Pence

The city of Dearborn offers a rich educational and cultural understanding of historical and modern technology advancements through its various points of interest with the unique artifacts and memorabilia that these locations have gathered. For the user to enjoy the large collection of enormous items such as full scale homes, transportation pieces, and fragments of large machines, many of the exhibits had to be transported to these locations in a carefully controlled designed system of disassembly at the original site and the intricate re-assembly in Dearborn. Although the nature of these artifacts is a disassemble/reassemble sequence, the character of the design for assembly method is similar. This design process allows for a framework that readily responds to different scenarios, provides a constructional intervention which allows for more significant alterations, gives the opportunity to relocate from place to place, and grants a predetermined end result through a given process. By incorporating these elements of adaptation, transformation, transportability, interaction, and a systematic way of assembly, a temporary solution to the intermodal station of Dearborn is created which in its entirety becomes an artifact to the culture of the community.