Filed under: college | Tags: architecture, brooklyn, Field Work Term, FWT, Harlem, New York, Oxford comma, Park Slope, red horse cafe, skyline, tea lounge, Williamsburg
I’ve apparently moved to Brooklyn, New York. I’ll only be here for two months, I promise. Then I will return to school.
I saw a few friends today. Today (actually yesterday) I walked to my apartment, took the subway to Harlem, then Park Slope and lastly to Williamsburg (where I’m living). My friend, Mariela, made me an amazingly delicious dinner. It was really simple…rice, peppers, garlic, red onion, spices and mozzarella. and love. (Please note the absense of an Oxford comma, but know that I don’t have a position on its absense.)
I also went to the Tea Lounge and the Red Horse Cafe with three other friends and a friend of a friend.
I’m interning with an architect, and I start tomorrow (actually today). I’m going to leave my apartment by 9:30 to make sure I’m on time (I don’t start until 10:30). Hopefully we will adjust my working hours as I’d rather go in/get out earlier. I hope my first day goes well.
Filed under: art, college, garden | Tags: agriculture, architecture, dance, farming, food, New York, parenting, philosophy, sukkah
This is my kind of parent. This is my kind of farmer. This is my kind of rule. This is my kind of intervention.
The architecture intro class is asked to design a Sukkah. When I designed mine two years ago, I imagined one beneath a water tower, one built of scrap wood and the last being “constructed” of eight modern dancers holding sunflowers moving to create a space that both comforts their occupants and responds to their surroundings. If only I were Jewish.
I really enjoyed reading this chapter for philosophy. You may enjoy reading it as well.
I wouldn’t say I like what he designed for a farm in Killingly, Connecticut, but I like his ideas.
Filed under: art, college, garden | Tags: architecture, Siedlung Halen, Switzerland
Filed under: art, college, garden | Tags: architecture, Atelier 5, gardens, housing, Siedlung Halen, Switzerland
My architecture class, Architectural Analysis, requires a term-long investigation of one building. I will be completing mine on the Siedlung Halen housing development. I hesitate to use the term “housing development” because it has a negative connotation to neatly everyone who hears the term, however, it isn’t quite anything else. It is located on a sloped lot in Kirchindach, Switzerland and was built 1955-61.
The development includes 33 larger dwellings (type 12 houses), 41 smaller dwellings (type 380 houses) and five studios for a total of 79 units. The dwellings have between four and six room and are either four or five meters wide. There are many variants from one dwelling to the next, as is illustrated by the blueprints for the units above.
All of the houses have private gardens. The gardens are often the roof of another dwelling and since their planting, have created a hanging garden-like landscape. You can use and build on the roof of the occupant below.
There is a cafe and a small shop, swimming pool and underground parking. The development is surrounded by protected woodland, to be shared by all of the occupants.
Filed under: art, college | Tags: architecture, architecture school, Chicago, hurricane katrina, katrina, New Orleans, reality tv, revitalization, solar decathlon, Sundance Channel, Tulane School of Architecture, Tulane University, urbanbuild
No one’s trying to come in and build something that people are going to walk by or drive by and be like, “Why is this here?…This looks so out of place.” At the same time, recreating something or trying to mimic something that was built a hundred years ago, or 50 years ago, I don’t think that’s an homage to something that was built a long time ago. I think that’s just a bastardization of something that was built a long time ago.
This is Amarit. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, he may now be found at the Tulane School of Architecture. The Sundance Channel has produced a six-part reality series about him, eight other architecture students and New Orleans called “Architecture School.” The series records the semester of fourth-year students in the URBANBuild program. The program allows students to design and build a home in post-Katrina New Orleans. You may watch at Hulu or on iTunes after they air on the Sundance Channel. iTunes will make you pay for all but the first episode.
The Solar Decathlon is another example of architecture students doing real work in their field.
Filed under: art, last green valley | Tags: architecture, art, energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, MoMA, New Orleans, New York, New York Times, pellet, Pomfret, prefab
MoMA is opening a new exhibit soon that will feature prefabricated housing.
Mr. Sass, an architecture professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has designed prefab housing for New Orleans. He proposes shipping a laser-cutting system with the pieces, which can be assembled with a rubber mallet, so homeowners can erect their own houses. “The house could be a fascinating combination of high-tech design and low-tech assembly,” Mr. Bergdoll said.
Unrelated…my father purchased a pellet stove for our house this weekend. It will be delivered and installed in October. Pellets are compacted sawdust; a bi-product of the sawmill industry. We’re hoping that the financial and ecological costs remain in our favor, despite the decline of the housing boom and the number of people converting to alternative fuels. We still aren’t sure about how to properly circulate air around the house. More on our pellet stove once it has been installed.
