Design Village 2011 "Social Parametrics": It takes a Village | Dwelling in the Canyon
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Design Village is an architectural design competition held every year. Student teams from colleges throughout California and beyond, design habitable structures that must be hand-carried up a mile-long dirt road into the Poly Canyon Experimental Structures Lab.
During the 2011 Open House weekend on April 15-17, 2011, "Social Parametric" defined this year's Design Village by requiring that each structure incorporate at least two physical connections to other structures on the competition grounds. While individual entries will be judged on their own design, ultimately an interconnected mega-structure will form. To reinforce the idea of network building, each team must consider the quality of the interstitial spaces that emerge within this temporary community.
Scott Mann - Thesis student, and president of 2011 Design Village
"What is Communal Dwelling? The experience of being part of your team in design, the design’s fabrication, transit, and assembly, as well as the night in the canyon with your work, all affect your idea of dwelling. Dwelling and affect are two words to consider closely. Dwell and affect-asaffection… do you love your dwelling? Can we love our architecture? That is a bit egotistical on our part, but certainly we can learn to love our being in this world through our work. We help create the world we experience with our design. The project is a dwelling, but further, the means to enact a sense of dwelling that reveals the canyon, your relations with your team in the canyon, and integrates with the sense of time manifest in the dynamic processes of the canyon. The goal of the last phase of project one is your being totally aware of this process, from expectations of the start of the hike to the clean-up – the full 24+ hours there."
Syllabus ARCH 133: Beginning Design Lab
Professors: Brent Freeby, JoAnn Moore, Bryan Ridley, Keith Wiley, Michael Lucas [area coordinator]
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