One down, still one to go, but you can call me Master.
Final review went well–a discussion of architectural relevance followed by a heated debate between reviewers, at which point I stopped talking altogether as things escalated towards a fist fight. What more could I have asked for?
Only moments later, as euphoria set in and […]
Good meeting today, following last week’s cross-check review debacle. Sometimes you need to fail to start over.
Okay, not quite that bad, but I think it made me let go of a number of assumptions and caveats that I had been hanging onto doggedly, and dogmatically.
So over the weekend I had my Laputa moment (the castle, […]
Intro
This project is an assessment of suburban and exurban housing characteristics in terms of ecological performance, in order to define more clearly the gap between resource and energy consumption of existing housing stock, and a hypothetically sustainable level of resource and energy consumption.
In response to this performance gap, I propose a series of individual house-scale […]
I’ve got three ideas for the end of this project.
The first is a kind of flow diagram comparing and clarifying the variety of options for dealing with the major problems of a suburban home. I need some version of this to help me decide what to do to the actual house, so that my decisions […]
The interim review of the project went well. I argued that, although architects do not like to think about the suburbs, and although this sentiment is in some senses justified by the fact that speculators, not architects, have been in charge of the suburbs from layout and infrastructure to the shape of the houses since […]
Givens:
People like the suburbs, people want to move there, and people don’t have a problem with the iconic image of a house, gables, siding and garages.
But just because they tend not to be at war with the basic form of the suburban home (in the way that architects and the design-minded often are after prolonged […]
Here’s where I’m at: Have been trying to narrow potential sites by looking at census data and housing prices and potential transit lines to figure out what might be a suburb that is both a) in danger of failing, indicating that houses might be in need of work and b) in a promising location to […]
Let’s pretend, for a moment, that we’re doing a project about the suburbs. What’s going on, in 2010, post housing-market crash? Are poorer people moving out there? Are the people out there just seeming poorer by virtue of lost jobs? Are the houses losing value?
What’s going to happen when the energy for heating, cooling, and […]