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psu architecture 282 design studio


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 16, 2008

WEEK SEVEN: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE

Here are the latest developments as the new student teams work to make a list of priorities and diagrams into a beautiful, meaningful, poetic, and enriching building for the community.

Structural concept: new growth


Dwelling Unit breakdown:

4 Live/work (1.5 height) @ 900 sqft each ----------------------> 3,600 sqft total
2 Extended Family (2.5 height) @ 1500 sqft each -------------> 3,000 sqft total
2 Nuclear Family (single height) @ 1200 sqft each -----------> 2,400 sqft total
4 Nuclear Family (double height) @ 1200 sqft each ----------> 4,800 sqft total
6 Single (single height) @ 600 sqft each -----------------------> 3,600 sqft total
4 Single (double height) @ 600 sqft each ----------------------> 2,400 sqft total

TOTAL RESIDENTIAL SQUARE FOOTAGE
NOT INCLUDING CIRCULATION/OPEN SPACES : 19,800 sqft
Total number of units: 22


Square footage break down:

Commercial level: 600 sqft of residential space (live/work extended into R1)

R1: total sqft of units NOT INCLUDING CIRCULATION/OPEN SPACES

5 nuclear families
-4 (double height extends into R2)
-1 single height
2 extended families (height extends into R2 and R3)
2 single (double height extends R2)
2 live/work (height extended from commercial level)

R2: 5400 total sqft of units NOT INCLUDING CIRCULATION/OPEN SPACES

5 nuclear families
-4 (double height extended from R1)
-1 single height
2 extended families (height extended from R1)
2 single (double height extended from R1)
2 live/work (height extends into from R3)

R3: 4800 total sqft of units NOT INCLUDING CIRCULATION/OPEN SPACES

7 single
-5 single height
-2 (double height extends into R4)
2 extended family (extended from R2 and R1)
2 live/work (height extends from R2)

R4: 1200 total sqft of units NOT INCLUDING CIRCULATION/OPEN SPACES

3 singles
-2 (double height extended from R3)
-1 single height

NUCLEAR FAMILY DWELLING (Sergey)





Plinth Team Working Model

Vehicle house


Ian Coltman at the street level:
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