Showing posts with label Architektur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architektur. Show all posts
Universal Design: Homes For All Ages
Brought to you by the Arlington County Commission On Aging, this video discusses the meaning and importance of having universal design in a home plus its impact on everyone, regardless of age and ability.
Living Big in a Tiny House: Charming + Mobility Friendly
"This tiny house has many elderly / disability friendly features which helps to make this tiny home a very liveable space. These features include design aspects such as ramps, reinforced walls for secure hand rails, and an accessibility toilet and shower. Care was taken to ensure there are zero trip hazards in the home and the dimensions of the home were even designed around the ability to use a wheelchair in the tiny house if need be."
"For those who have disabilities or mobility issues, one of the best things about a tiny house on wheels is that you can design it to your specific needs. In this case, Merle has a home where she is warm and comfortable, but most importantly, a house which has given her back her independence and dramatically increased her quality of life."
"This tiny house was constructed by Ferne’s company, Tiny Footprint in Australia."
Public Housing, Beauty and Inclusive Design
"The Raymond Hilliard Homes (also called Center) was a Chicago Housing Authority complex located on the near south side of Chicago, containing two 16-story round towers for elderly housing and two 18-story curved towers for low-income family housing. Supporting 756 dwelling units, the complex included lawns, playgrounds, and an open air theater. It has since been renovated by the private sector and converted to mixed-income housing, still with a significant lower income population. It is also now listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1997, recognized for exceptional design. (...)
Meant as a new solution to public housing woes, Raymond Hilliard was built to be a structure which residents would be proud to live in. Goldberg felt that much public-housing was designed in such a way to make the poor feel that they were punished for being poor and did little other than warehouse them. As stated by Goldberg in a 1965 promotional piece, "their architecture must meet them and recognize them, not simply store them." Residents were chosen from records of model citizenry in other housing projects, and for many years this was the only public housing complex which needed no constant police supervision. The unusual tower shapes maximized the space allowed by Public Housing Authority standards while creating a sense of community and openness."
Raymond Hilliard Homes
::: DOWNLOAD: Integration by Design: Bertrand Goldberg, Stanley Tigerman, and Public Housing Architecture in Postwar Chicago, Marisa Angell Brown, Brown University
Excerpt (p. 218):
This essay examines a critical moment in public housing design in which two architects—Bertrand Goldberg and Stanley Tigerman, both white, Jewish, and Chicago residents—deliberated over what would constitute appropriate designs for African American residents on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s. The Raymond Hilliard Homes (Figure 1) and Woodlawn Gardens (Figure 2), built six miles from each other—one at the northern edge of the Black Belt, the other at its southeastern boundary near Hyde Park—reveal Goldberg and Tigerman grappling with race, poverty, and spatial segregation in thoughtful and empathetic ways and coming to two very different conclusions about how an architecture of black empowerment might look.
Goldberg, drawing on the work of contemporary sociological thinkers such as Herbert J. Gans, Edward T. Hall, and Nathan Glazer, believed that different social groups have intrinsically different cultures, and that architecture must suit the users’ particular cultural mores and needs.
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photograph via chicago modern
Oscar Niemeyer says...
"What matters is not the architecture, but life, friends and this unjust world that we have to change"
Oscar Niemeyer
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photograph via après le pub
Living Longer and Becoming More Diverse: The Many Faces of Co-Housing
"'Co-housing' as a formal and distinct concept is broadly recognised as having originated in Denmark. (...) This semi-urban communal living arrangement - on the fringes of a rapidly intensifying urban context with limited housing supply - was novel in that it self-consciously responded to growing calls for gender equality, and focused explicitly on providing childcare through the pooling of (multiple) household resources." (p. 21)
"Sharing in general can be understood as consisting of two types: the first around tangible, practical resource sharing, such as pooling material items or services (tools, cars, storage space, energy production etc.) or providing support (e.g. caring for children, the elderly or people with special needs); the second is around the less tangible: sense of togetherness or closeness, desire for involvement in each other's lives." (p. 44)
"While some forms of co-living are emerging to cater to culturally distinct segments of society, there is a challenge of how we handle ageing together with others we don't necessarily choose, or who 'don't look like us.'" (p. 45)
::: Download "Ahn, J., Tusinski, O. & Treger, C. (2018). Living Closer. The many faces of co-housing. A Studio Weave publication in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects" : LINK
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Apartments for Adults with Autism and Neurodiversities
First Place is housing "designed to nurture the spirit of community, independence and interdependence within a supportive and caring environment". The 55-unit apartment property is located in the centre of Phoenix and aims to promote safety, security and well-being by offering residents with autism "the comforts of home without the distractions that can make life challenging" (First Place).
Projects like this are important as half a million teenagers on the autism spectrum are expected to reach adulthood in the next ten years. The vast majority of them will continue living with their parents which can be challenging when parents age leaving institutionalisation the only possible solution (CityLab).
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image via Phoenix Business Journal
Inclusive Design - Architecture for Everyone
Excerpt: Despite a vast set of rules and regulations concerning architecture for disabled people, the built environment still lacks functionality and accessibility. Architecture is often not suitable for handicapped people, whether the impairments are permanent or temporary. Building regulations focus mainly on wheelchair users as a stereotype disabled person while disregarding other limiting factors to other fringe groups. The variety of impairments being immense and architecture needing to be useable or adaptable to the needs of every person, more suitable guidelines than strict and non-flexible building regulations are necessary. Todayʼs state of the art in accessible design is called Inclusive Design. In contrast to other regulations for disabled people, Inclusive Design doesnʼt give a set of rules, but principles for orientation. The thesis will explain that ID is not a new idea, but is a logical consequence deriving from the history of design for disabled people. Furthermore the application of ID in different European countries will be shown.
::: Download: Inclusive Design - Architecture for Everyone, MA thesis, 2011, 76 pages
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photograph via Robotix
I am the Architect
Archie is the main character. He works hard to get technical information and then ideas – or what he calls “inspiration” – through travels around the globe and taking photos. So we learn about how an architect works and how an architect gets ideas. All in all, a pretty comprehensive view of all things architecture. (archKIDecture)
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The Interfaith Peace Chapel: A Place Where Dialogue Can Begin
"The chapel is a place where people of all faiths, or no faith, can participate in dialogue, meditation and prayer. The environment and surroundings will inspire people to join voices, hearts and minds in order to build understanding of similarities and differences."
"The chapel is our visible proclamation to the world that we must all be committed to peace. It stands as a monument to the cause of peace for all who believe in it, seek it and work for it."
(Interfaith Peace Chapel)
"The Interfaith Peace Chapel, designed by Philip Johnson Alan Ritchie Architects in the 1990s, is today home to a largely LGBT congregation and has previously been a target for graffiti."
(Curbed)
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photograph via Dezeen
A Teepee-Like Complex with a Spiral Pool for Wheelchair Users
"This enchanting cluster of teepee-like structures located in the mountains of Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture functions as a facility for two women in their sixties who operate a food delivery service for the elderly and a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities, proving that ingenious design can be used to great effect in the service and health industries."
"Two blocks contain living quarters for the clients, while a guest room and a spiral-shaped pool designed to accommodate wheelchair users make up the other." (Curbed)
More: Dezeen
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Photograph via Dezeen
Daniel Libeskind says...
"Universal Design (UD) should be embodied in every design process and not seen as an afterthought, because architecture is universal and it should be for everyone."
Daniel Libeskind (todayonline)
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Photo via Alchetron
Wochenendtipp
DAM - Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, "ZUKUNFT VON GESTERN - Visionäre Entwürfe von Future Systems und Archigram", 14. Mai – 18. September 2016.
"Im Fokus stehen außergewöhnliche Zeichnungen, Collagen und Modelle des 1968 nach London emigrierten, tschechischen Architekten Jan Kaplický aus den 1980er Jahren. Konfrontiert werden diese Exponate mit zwanzig Jahre früher entstandenen Werken von Archigram aus der DAM Sammlung. Die Entwürfe der Londoner Architektengruppe Archigram um Peter Cook, Ron Herron und Dennis Crompton sowie Future Systems um Jan Kaplický und David Nixon sind in der utopischen Architektur angesiedelt. Archigram entwarfen organische Architekturen für das Überleben in unbehaglichen Sphären, Future Systems technoide Konstruktionen für die freundlichere Erdlandschaft. Das Gros dieser Utopien blieb auf dem Papier und Anregung für das (Über)leben in gesellschaftlichen Umbruchphasen. Die Weltraumarchitektur von Archigram entstand in der Zeit der Mondlandung. Future Systems dagegen entwarfen ihre autarken, Wohnkapseln in der Hochphase des Kalten Krieges." (Deutsches Architekturmuseum)
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Bild: Archigram, Walking City (Project 064), 1964. © Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
Wochenende
"Das Architektenbüro Nice Architects hat eine wohnwagenartige Unterkunft entwickelt, die sich selbst mit Energie versorgen kann. Das Projekt namens "Ecocapsule" nutzt dafür Sonne, Wind und Wasser. Auf dem acht Quadratmeter großen Dach des eiförmigen Miniaturheims befinden sich Solarzellen. Zusätzlich produziert das Haus eigenen Strom mit einer ein- und ausfahrbaren 750-Watt-Windturbine." (Die Welt)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
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Foto: www.ecocapsule.sk
Steven Holl says...
"(...) in New York, architecture with a sense of social purpose is becoming increasingly rare.
Society's tendency today to sanctify wealth and celebrate the super rich is also the bane of the 99 per cent. A recent op-ed in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof, titled Inequality Is a Choice, stated that in 2014, consolidated end-of-year Wall Street bonuses were twice the total annual earnings of all Americans working full-time at the minimum wage.
I have a client from that culture who makes an annual wage of $650 million. That is approximately $1.4 million per day. We might consider how this astonishing unequal income has begun to take architectural form."
"If we fast forward to Manhattan in 1934 and buildings like the Rockefeller Center, thin and vertical architecture marked great public urban space; the Empire State Building's vertical dominance offered a public observatory deck.
No such public space will be offered by our present privatised spires. Not only do they deny public access to the top and cast long shadows on the street, they will seldom be occupied, as their $90 million apartments are financial instruments, not really apartments for everyday life. Many of these profane spires have been built with tax abatements from our once public-oriented city government.
Architecture is the greatest tool available to our species. Our lives are lived within the urban framework we construct. As Churchill said, "We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us." Our choices today give shape to future generations."
(Dezeen)
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Photograph via Beautiful Global
Colourful Affordable Housing for Single Adults and the Once Homeless
"New York studio Alexander Gorlin Architects has completed a Bronx apartment block with small studios for low-income tenants, including those who were once homeless."
"The building is intended for permanent occupation by single working adults who earn between $18,000 and $35,280 per year (£13,560 and £25,578). The project specifically targets formerly homeless individuals who are high-cost recipients of Medicaid assistance – a government social healthcare program that is available to impoverished US residents.
The building contains 154 rental units, all of which are studios that measure 300 square feet (28 square metres)."
The architect clad the 12-storey, L-shaped structure in charcoal grey brick. To add visual interest, the studio placed anodised aluminium panels on the facade that are coloured red, orange, yellow and blue.
The history of the neighbourhood influenced the colour palette. In the 1700s, the site was a farm owned by developer Lewis Morris, one of the signers of America's Declaration of Independence. "The colours of the facade are from the Colonial Era, to recall this past history," said Alexander Gorlin Architects, a noted studio in New York that was founded in 1987.
Stairs and a wheelchair ramp, both made of concrete, lead to the building's front entrance.
While conceiving the interior, the studio placed "equal emphasis on private rooms and communal spaces". Amenities include a large patio and garden, a roof terrace, a computer lab and a laundry facility. The architect also incorporated a fitness room and bicycle storage."
(Dezeen)
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Photograph via Gorlin Architects
Gallaudet University: A Dorm for the Deaf
"The first thing you notice when walking into Gallaudet University’s newest residence hall is how utterly familiar it looks. With its modern concrete floors, wooden accents and expansive set of glass windows, the dormitory is not familiar in the sense of boring—actually the space is quite lovely even despite the fact that it is student housing. You see, Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. is home to nearly 2,000 students who are deaf or hearing impaired, and its recently built dorm was designed with them specifically in mind.
Obvious design concessions are nowhere to be found; rather, the Living and Learning Residence Hall 6 was built with a series of subtle and thoughtful design choices that use the principles of DeafSpace. Designed by New York City-based LTL Architects, the 60,000-square-foot building is the first to fully employ architectural principles that cater to the communication and spatial needs of the hearing impaired."
"GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY'S NEWEST residence hall was designed specifically for deaf students by New York City-based LTL Architects. The 60,000-square-foot building is the first to fully employ architectural principles that cater to the communication and spatial needs of the hearing impaired.
DeafSpace principles are architectural guidelines to improve how deaf people interact with their built surroundings. The Gallaudet team developed more than 150 design elements that address five main problem areas for the deaf: space and proximity, sensory reach, mobility and proximity, light and color, and acoustics.
The ground floor is the centerpiece of the building and is open to all students on campus. The acoustics of the space are tightly controlled thanks to a paneled ceiling and acoustic blanket that is pinned to the underside of the concrete floor.
The ground floor’s community room has a subtle amphitheatre-like slope that when viewed through the wall of windows, is clearly in line with the natural incline of the campus’ landscape. This was to faciliate clear lines of sight throughout the building.
Each residential floor has a kitchen that opens to a lounge. All main appliances are centered on the island, which ensures that students never have to have their backs to each other while cooking. This is meant to foster the idea of the kitchen as a gathering place where students can get to know each other." (Wired)
More:
The Radical Challenge of Building a Dorm for the Deaf, Wired
How Gallaudet University's Architects are Redefining Deaf Space, Curbed
Gallaudet University, LTL Architects
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Photograph via Curbed
Wayne Stephens says...
"I’m Wayne Stephens. I’m a partner of ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects and I specialise in designing educational facilities. ClarkeHopkinsClarke works with a lot of special schools. We believe that there was a real opportunity for the mainstream schools to do a lot more, to start to integrate a lot of those needs within those mainstream schools.
These designs work with the Universal Design Principles really so they become a facility where all kids of all age and abilities can actually use these facilities. Some of the key factors of the Universal Design Principles are actually having easy access for different facilities and making it so that we’ve minimised the distances between the Learning Communities and the specialist spaces so they’ve got easy access to those places.
If we take a typical learning community, for example, there’s a lot of differentiated learning that caters for a lot of kids with different needs. There are larger collaborative spaces where it’s appropriate for children to have a wellbeing setting in that larger social sense, but also right down to those small, intimate spaces for quiet reflection, to have those spaces as well. For example, in our Learning Communities we have a learning pod that’s not only used to differentiate the different learning settings that are within the Learning Community, but also can provide a bit of a safe haven for kids with special needs, that they’ve got somewhere to retreat to that can have that sense of nurturing and a sense of ownership of a space as well.
I think by experiencing the spaces you really need to validate the different learning settings within the space, and everything needs to be fully integrated so it has the ability for children with special needs to be able to feel at home in that space. But it really shouldn’t be obvious as well; it just needs to be there but in the background without making it look evident that it is catering for kids with special needs.
We talk about the learning spaces having a lot of flexibility, but it’s really important that they are also adaptable so they can change over time. Even the external walls, we use those. By activating those walls with little niches and recesses and spaces to sit and reflect and that sort of thing, creates another learning setting again that they can use.
Also, it’s really important that the furniture selection that we have in those Learning Communities can suit the variety of different needs of all the children as well. We’ve got a lot of adjustable height tables and chairs that can cater for children with greater needs."
Wayne Stephens via Architecture & Design
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photograph via Urban Melbourne
Radical Architecture: Superstudio
In 1966, two recent graduates of the Florence School of Architecture, Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, began Superstudio as an architectural firm that didn’t practice architecture, but thought it. Fed up with the old guard of architects who ran the Italian universities, but lacking the means or clout to get commissions, the young architects used the language of architectural drawings and collages to critique the blanket of modernist architecture that covered many cities in the post-war period. (Eli Neumann-Hammond)
"A ’60s Architecture Collective That Made History (but No Buildings)"
Stephen Wallis, New York Times
Besides major cities like New York City, Superstudio took an Austrian city in consideration, too: Megastructure Graz by Superstudio
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All images courtesy of Stuperstudio
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