CEE 137B Architecture StudioPracticum(Live Projects):
Sustainable Development,Equity, Ethics,& Community Service
The Architecture Studio - Encina Hall West #219 – StanfordUniversity
Spring 2005 MW 10-12
Final Review & Wrap-Up:
Wednesday June 1, 2005 [9-2]
Case Studies:
a)Lightweight, sustainable, affordable prototypical crisis shelter unit for Habit Guatemala and ShelterProject.org (to serve tsunami victims)
Examples:
‘Fred’ - Expandable Room Unit – Kaufmann “Matchbox Design” Marshall SV Emergency Unit Office of Mobile Design
Refugee Housing in Khuzestan (Persian Gulf)
SUPERADOBE EMERGENCY SHELTER (NADER KHALILI) – Cal-Earth Institute
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paper house (Shigeru Ban) Catholic U Design/Build Studio (mobile housing unit)
flatrock mobile home units
b) Centro de Restauracion de Multitudes (CEREM) Amatitlan, Guatemala;
On-going work for a residential center and school for homeless children and women in distress
[previous studio work at
Marga Jann, Registered Architect, DPUC, AIA (Europe) (Design Critic & Lecturer,
Civil & Environmental Engineering / Affiliate, Institute for the Environment)
Encina Hall West #219(office hours by appointment)
John Haymaker, Registered Architect, PhD, AIA, LEED cp(Design Critic)
Boyd Paulson,PhD(Professor,Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Barbara Palmer, Writer (Stanford Report), Public Relations (Wed only)
Gil Masters, PhD(Professor, CEE;ProjectAdvisor, Sustainability/Green Building Issues)
Avra Winograd-Hutner, Emily Lesk, Teaching Assistants
Luis Trujillo, Client Representative
Recommended Supplementary and/or Pre-requisite Courses:
CEE111 Computer Aided Design (or similar)
At least one previous design studio (or permission of instructor)
Class will be limited to 6-8 students.
Course Goals and Description:
This advanced, interdisciplinary, service-based studio course/practicum simulates an office situation using live projects (crisis shelter and a residential center for women and children in Amatitlan, Guatemala) to introduce the student to the design process through hands-on experience. The studio is taught by the project architect and visiting professionals, and involves client contact, field trips, an examination of related socio-economic/ethical issues, programmation and sustainable design development, and architectural history lectures. The choice of project encompasses two extremes having the same end: "socially conscious," real-world student/community involvement within the academic setting, for clients whose ethics are reflected in the mission of their institution (tax-exempt organizations providing working examples of social responsibility and service for underprivileged peoples). Field trips will be an intrinsic part of the studio and include visits to related centers and shelters in the Bay Area and models of architectural excellence, such as the Schwab Center, San Jose’s Tech Museum, and the Children’s Discovery Museum, to list a few. A week-end field trip across the border to Mexico or to the building site in Guatemala will be included as grant funding permits.
Each student will be expected to design a sustainable emergency shelter through the design development phase and to handle a particular aspect of the over-all Guatemalan design problem, developing his/her creative potential against the background of Guatemala's rich design heritage and the colorful urban fabric of the indigenous landscape with its vernacular folk traditions and manifold contrasts. Designers whose work will be considered as exemplary include Noriega, Yturbe, Legoretta, Mockbee (RuralStudio.com), Shigeru Ban, and Barragan. Cross-cultural and ethical decisions involving building codes, quality of living, standards of construction, sustainability, choice of materials, and labor law will be addressed.
The goal is to finalize concrete architectural and engineering projects while exploring ethical, spiritual and sociological concerns peculiar to the individual clients and their respective culture(s). Guest lecturers/critics and visiting architects will assist in providing feed-back in the studio. Work in the course consists primarily of the design projects and final presentation, with a focus on the implementation and accommodation of ethical concerns through the built environment (e.g. “sacred space”), design freedom, the encouragement of juvenile/adolescent ethical conduct through sound space planning, shelter as a “human right”, cross-cultural outreach, and the influence and importance of ethics in professional practice. The projects involve real work/community service reflecting a sense of social responsibility and activism, with an option to assist CEREM (an indigenous “grass-roots” organization) with public relations and fund-raising/grant-writing skills as an “extended service” (for those interested in finance, PR and cost-estimation). Barbara Palmer from the “Stanford Report” will consult re press and public relations, an important part of design development and promotion, and Gil Masters will advise regarding “green” building issues. John Haymaker and Boyd Paulson will participate as visiting critics.
Suggested Reading / References (on reserve):
Reshaping the Built Environment: Ecology, Ethics and Economics, Alex Wilson
Expo On-line: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics, Greg Lyan
Ethik Des Bauens: The Ethics of Building, Mario Botta
Ethics and Urban Design: Culture, Form and Environment, Gideon Golany
Via: Ethics and Architecture, John Capelli
Ethics and the Practice of Architecture, Wasserman
Less Aesthetics More Ethics: 7th International Architecture Exhibition, Massimiliano Fukas
Mexican Color, Holmes and Poniatowski
Barragan: The Complete Works
Sustainable Design Service-LearningReading:
American Association for Higher Education, in Service Learning and Education, Office of Volunteer Programs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamaign, [ 2002.
Architectural Internship Everybody’s Issue, 2002 National Summit on Architectural Internship,University of Oklahoma[ 2002.
Bell, Bryan (ed), Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service Through Architecture,New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Brown, David, Sustainable Architecture White Papers, Earth Pledge Foundation Series on Sustainable Development, 2001.
Carpenter, William (ed),Learning by Building: Design and Construction in Architectural Education, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1997.
Dean & Hursley, Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency,Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
Dutton, Thomas (ed), Voices in Architectural Education: Cultural Politics and Pedagogy (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series), New York,Bergin & Garvey, 1991.
Edwards, Brian & Turrent, David, Sustainable Housing: Principles & Practice,New York,E & FN Spon, 2000.
Futureshack (Architecture for Humanity)
ADDITIONAL READING & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
ARCHITECTURE STUDIO PRACTICUM (LIVE PROJECTS) / Sustainable Development CEE137
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UNCHRThe State of the World's Refugees, UNCHR, 1995
UNCHSCities in a Globalising World, Earthscan 2001
World BankHuman Development Report, 1998
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