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Welcome to the online studio report for Architecture 282, the spring quarter second-year undergraduate design studio at Portland State University's department of Architecture. As our focus for the term is the investigation of community and collective experience, we recognize the importance of communication and shared information in fostering these themes. Hence, our new digital community--this blog.

Our non-virtual exploration seeks to imagine a community of dwellings and businesses in a dense and ever-changing neighborhood close to the urban core of Portland Oregon.

We are students of architecture, not developers. So over the next two months we'll be looking at the 'Portland Dense Housing' issue through a slightly different lens than what is normal out there under the construction cranes.

We will form our own design community, and will ultimately collaborate on a single 'development' to take place on the corner of north Mississippi ave. and north Fremont st. Instead of focusing on the developer-driven priorities of profitability and product marketing, we will base our work on often overlooked values--such as domestic ritual, collective social arrangement, the psychology of materials, and the physical, social, and phenomenological patterns of the surrounding neighborhood.

Yes, this project is purely hypothetical, but by exploring these priorities, we aim to delve much deeper than issues of mere 'style', 'image', or 'performance' in proposing an ideal by which future development may be judged.

Please visit this blog often and feel free to comment, as things are taking shape rather quickly as I write. We'll make sure to post all of our research and progress designs as this exciting project develops.

-your humble scribe,
Garrett Martin

Friday, May 2, 2008

WEEK FIVE: THE 'HOUSE' AS A COLLECTION OF RITUALS

BACKGROUND How do you take a collection of wishes and requirements, and anticipate their conversion to physical spaces? The first step is to develop a diagram of all rituals / activities, qualified by a set of modifiers.

STUDENT WORK
Sergey Marandyuk:

Ian Coltman:
On-site Shared Childcare Scheme

Sergey Marandyuk:


Zephyr Anthony:



Johnny Karam:
Brittany Teeter: extended occupation: live-work multiples:
Extended Use: Roommate Apartments (Steven Christian)


Felix Velazquez (the nuclear family)

Aggregation




ASSIGNED: Friday, 25 April DUE: Monday, 28 April (PIN UP & discussion)
TO DO: 1. From the models, drawings, and discussions of the first two weeks of studio your are to assemble the spaces for domestic ritual into a collective, single 'dwelling'. This collection must include (quantitative):
• A 'space' for each activity shaped by your classmates, and a notation for its size (in square feet). The form of this quantitative result is a written LIST. Each team must compile and agree upon a single list.
• Feel free to add spaces and rituals which your team agrees are missing from the collection (e.g. outdoor spaces, multiples of sleeping rooms, etc.) By each student in the team, the list must be characterized by (qualitative):
• User:
 o 1 student within the group must tailor his/her investigation to a single occupier/couple without children.
o 1-2 students within the group must tailor their investigation(s) to a nuclear family.
o 1 student within the group must tailor his/her investigation to an 'extended' occupation. (this definition is open-ended, and can be an extension of either 'user group' above. An example may be a guest-suite, a live-work scenario, in-house care, group-home, etc.)
• Adjacency. Based on the diagrams and proposed adjacencies provided at the end of assignment 02--and posted on the blog-- diagrammatically arrange the spaces adjacent to others as you see fit. Remember, this is not a plan--just a meaningful list of spaces.
• Feel free to adjust the shapes of the spaces provided, change their suggested adjacencies, meld multiple rituals/activities into the same space as you see fit, but be mindful of honoring the priorities and sensibilities of the the prototypes.
• Aggregation. Once a diagrammatic arrangement is complete, duplicate it into a minimum of two and a maximum of four, and arrange them into a meaningful adjacency.
• Outdoor connection. Graphically represent the degree of outdoor connection required by each space, and shared within the aggregation of 'units'.
 • Public vs shared use. There will be some gray-area here, so entertain all possiblities. If it is a single space that may be shared by all in the community, keep it separate from the others.
• Use color-coding, or similarly clear graphic description to illustrate the above criteria. The initial list and standard of graphic presentation must be decided unanimously within the group, but the diagrammatic arrangements--the 'units' are to be done ideally in isolation from your teammates. The idea here is to present a variety of approach for discussion.

There are no 'right' answers! Bring all alternates, developed to the same level of graphic acumen and color-coding to studio for pin up and discussion on Monday, 28 April.
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